The alternatives to asphalt roads are gravel roads, dirt roads, and concrete slab roads.

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Federal contractors say that as long as it remains undisturbed, the soil poses no danger to people because it is buried under a concrete slab.

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Scottish Water have laid a thick concrete slab over the void.

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The alleged burial site is under a concrete slab, and the residence is occupied by new homeowners, who've been "cooperative and excellent to police, " Berlin said.

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They could be traditional ballasted beds or continuous concrete slab.

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Hovering close to the ground, each of these thin-shell dwellings is made entirely out of a single concrete slab stretched out to create an energy efficient structure that is environmentally greener than traditional construction methods and cheaper and faster to produce.

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When it gives, it sounds like a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica has hit the concrete-slab floor.

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The design featured a wooden frame on top of a concrete-slab foundation, with an exterior covered in gray asbestos shingles. (Steel was in short supply.) The structure violated the Cambridge fire code, but it was granted an exemption because of its temporary status.

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Luckily, the man was found unharmed, but he was sleeping on the slab of concrete of his house that was foreclosed.

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The facility, which is called a "gas governor" and consists of a large slab of concrete, a flue pipe and a control box, is intended to regulate gas supply in the area.

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There was a big slab of concrete.

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