Want a sturdy foundation for your next tool shed? Consider having a concrete slab as your base. Concrete slabs are inexpensive, long-lasting and easy to install—as well as multi-purpose.

Pros and Cons of Buying a House on a Concrete Slab Mark Cussen, CMFC, has 13+ years of experience as a writer and provides financial education to military service members and the public.

Above grade floors don’t typically have an existing concrete slab subfloor, aka a slab, so a cement underlayment will be needed. First, the old flooring will have to be removed and an ...

A California-based consultant with 52 years of experience in the concrete industry has invented a device that, he says, makes installing ground slab joints easier, cheaper and safer than using ...

When positioned in the upper or top portion of the slab thickness, steel reinforcement limits the widths of random cracks that may occur because of concrete shrinkage and temperature restraints ...

which is supposed to be over 500% stronger than traditional solid concrete slabs. But, of course, all of that pales in comparison to the concrete that doesn’t have any cement in it at all ...

Architecture firm SO – IL has revealed plans for a new residential condominium project planned for Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. Named 144 Vanderbilt, the development offers 26 ...

The cement industry annually produces around 3.5 billion tonnes of general Portland cement, the most common form, with emissions from the sector accounting for about 7% of total global ...

It is significantly harder than acrylic, but it does not allow trapped moisture to escape from the concrete slab. These durable sealers are often used for floors in high-traffic areas, such as ...

A large concrete slab fell onto the middle lane of a road heading from KLIA towards Kuala Lumpur, causing a hazardous ...

Steel can stretch, adding steel bars gives the concrete some tensile strength to go along with its compressive strength. Rebar also allows for thinner slabs and other members. Rebar or mesh ...

That's how Micheal Boyle's story went. Boyle was conducting work on his farm in County Donegal, when he found what turned out to be an ancient slab of bog butter. In ancient times, dairy or animal ...