Data centers and facilities designed to support these technologies require a floor performance that exceeds traditional commercial and industrial standards for slab-on-ground construction. While many ...

Slabs are used to represent the floor or roof system of a building. The slab used in wood frame construction represents the thickness of the floor joist and flooring system. If a concrete slab is used ...

The concrete slab-on-ground is among the most performance-critical structural elements in industrial and commercial buildings, yet it has long been designed using methods whose fundamental limitations ...

One of the defining images of the 2014 Venice Biennale came from Rem Koolhaas' "Elements of Architecture" exhibition, where a section of a suspended false ceiling, replete with ducts and wiring, was ...