Like a bolt from the blue, a six-year-old was struck on the back by a falling piece of concrete in the toilet at home. "The worst nightmare for me and esp my son [sic]," the boy's mother Syasha wrote ...

Swiss engineers have developed a construction technique that could change how buildings are designed and built. It’s called a “Smart Slab:” A mixture of concrete, rebar, and carbon fiber that form a ...

A massive chunk of concrete ceiling in a Tampa International Airport parking garage collapsed early Monday, crushing an empty rental car and damaging two others. The 50-foot-by-150-foot slab came ...

The argument is that these slab ceilings absorb heat and do not easily get damaged like those made out of plywood, glass and wood Slab concrete is a preferred ceiling solution for many people ...

Crews in Boston are removing in sections a monolithic, 43,000-sq-ft, 4-in.-thick reinforced-concrete ceiling off an Interstate 90 tunnel using specialized trucks equipped with shipping containers and ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich have manufactured a lightweight ceiling of concrete for an experimental building in the Swiss town of Dübendorf. The ceiling measures 78 m². According to details provided ...

DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is getting a new concrete ceiling, leading to overnight closures starting in August. Neal Belitsky, the tunnel company's president, says behind-the-scenes ...

Overhead shielding is being installed along the top of the Prudential Tunnel after a loose concrete slab fell from the ceiling Friday, damaging multiple cars. “Shielding is used to catch any small ...