Reduced tonnage also meant fewer and smaller columns, another set of cost savings. The thin-slab dovetail composite floor deck’s strength reduces the amount of concrete required, and its staggered ...

This redesign of the traditional lozenge-shaped lens is a wafer-thin slab of silicon dioxide with a pattern of tiny trenches carved into the surface. The trenches are about the same size as the ...

Because marble was very expensive, it was often placed in thin slabs as a cladding over other, cheaper stones. "To date, however, no actual remains of marble workshops from the Roman imperial era ...