When building a house, two main types of foundations are used: slab-on-grade or below-grade foundations with a basement slab. Climate, including high water tables, frost lines, harsh winters, and ...

The two bed-roomed house was constructed using interlocking blocks and has an indoor toilet. The projectcost Shs35m. PHOTOs/Roland NASASIRA. In Kyasira Village, in Katabi Town Council Wakiso District, ...

Interlocking blocks can be ideal for long-term, pothole free internal roads and squares believe some experts, who are asking Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) to adopt this technology. This helps to ...

Kolkata: The civic body has decided to lay interlocking concrete blocks on stretches of roads that frequently develop craters during monsoon. To start with, stretches of CR Avenue and Amherst Street ...

Managing Director of Reo-Habilis Construction Limited and the immediate past president of the Nigerian Institute of Building, Kunle Awobodu, tells DAMILOLA AINA on why compounds should not be fully ...

Above are the rib and block slabs and below are in situ concrete slabs. The rib and block slabs need less raw material in their making which makes them more economical to use during construction among ...

Stretches of two roads — one near Howrah bridge and another near Science City — that used to get damaged frequently despite repeated repairs are now being relaid with interlocking concrete blocks to ...

Mozhao Architects has added a furniture shop and tea house to a technology park in Shenzhen, in a series of six concrete blocks. Living Art Pavilion was commissioned as part of an effort to increase ...