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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...