"The better slab you make, the less cracking, and the better for (the prevention of) radon and termites, because they both like cracks," said Florida House's architect, Terry Osborn.

Concrete Concrete Equipment & Products Specification Limits on Slab-on-Grade Placement Size ACI 302 has stated since 1980 that a limited placement size concept has not achieved any better ...

Charleston officials may soon move to ban slab-on-grade construction in the 100-year flood plain. The climate-egregious building practice puts homeowners at greater flood risk. FEMA has ...

Reinforcement Reinforcing steel is placed within the concrete slab and grade beams to develop strength and to counteract the natural tendency of concrete to shrink and crack. Reinforcement is ...

Somero Enterprises introduced the Somero Sky Screed 25, the first Knuckle Boom Laser Screed machine in the world to allow screeding on structural high-rise and slab-on-grade applications.

Slab-on-grade concrete foundations will typically last 80 to 100 years. Wood used in other foundation forms will need to be termite-proofed every 12 years and waterproofing should last 10 years.

If you live in a slab-on-grade, SOG, home or work in a similarly constructed commercial building, the air you breathe every day might well compare to what came out of that underground critter ...

That will be followed by new construction in the old schoolyard, with 27 more slab-on-grade units with separate first- and second-storey apartments in each, making for a total of 74 residences on ...

Aug. 6—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — The Greater Johnstown Water Authority made two changes on Thursday to the rules governing compliance with the ongoing sewer remediation project affecting customers in ...