We often get questions from concrete contractors that relate to common and uncommon concerns. Here we discuss three such questions. FIGURE 1. For a design slab thickness of 5 inches, requiring 3 ...

"I would." Nevertheless, the floor needed fixing. Kinder-Morgan and the concrete contractor had a solution: demo and reinstall the full 167,000 square foot slab at a price tag of $2 million.

By rethinking the design and structural requirements of building floors, a team of architects and engineers at ETH Zurich have developed a floor slab that requires only 30% of the concrete and 10% ...

Design Optimization of Structural–Acoustic Spanning Concrete Elements in Buildings. Journal of Architectural Engineering, 2022; 28 (1) DOI: 10.1061/ (ASCE)AE.1943-5568.0000520 ...

Argentinian architect Felipe Gonzalez Arzac has used folding wooden blinds and a chunky concrete floor slab to provide shade to this house near Buenos Aires. House L224 is a 220-square-metre (2368 ...