A new ready-to-build slab foundation system called Muscle Slab is now available for quake damaged homes in Christchurch. Designed and developed by consulting engineers, Bekker Engineering Design NZ, ...

Beginning next month, state contractors will begin the lengthy process of removing more than 3,000 concrete slabs from St. Bernard Parish homes that were sold to the state's Road Home program and ...

Reuters photographer Eric Thayer recently spent some time with the fringe community living off-the-grid in Slab City. The former military base located in southern California was closed after World War ...

You have to go to Slab City to meet a man named Quokka. Slab City is a squatter’s settlement near the Salton Sea out in the Imperial Valley desert, about 150 miles east of San Diego. The “sea” is a ...

FARGO - Under a bright blue sky and cottonball clouds, Ed Johnson was puttering around his yard in Countryside Trailer Court in south Fargo on Thursday, June 15. It was an island of peace, compared ...

A three-ton concrete slab in a Pennsylvania duplex may contain the remains of a young mother who disappeared in 1989, according to police. Sunbury Police Chief Tim Miller said earlier this month that ...

Q: Several homes have recently been built in my neighborhood that are raised concrete slab homes or slab homes on built up land. Almost immediately after the slabs were poured they showed significant ...

Concrete is one of the most user-friendly building materials around. It’s durable and inexpensive, yet can be made amazingly attractive with today’s new concrete finishes. Learn how to pour a concrete ...

The Town of Mount Pleasant is considering a ban on new slab-built single-family homes in flood zones. Also known as "slab-on-grade" or "fill-and-build" construction, the method involves placing homes ...

Steve Hunter, left, owner of Hunter & Son Foundation Repair, works with his crew as they auger one of 16 helical piers 15 to 20 feet deep into the earth beneath Betty Wiens' home Thursday, Dec. 2, ...

Homes with gas lines beneath slab foundations — commonly built in Palo Alto in the mid 1900s — are at risk of gas leaks similar to that which caused a Maureen Avenue house to explode last September, ...

Charleston city officials appear on the cusp of banning "slab-on grade" construction, a building method that some view as egregious and which puts homes at greater flood risk. The fact that such a ...