Panels tend to cost more per unit of surface area than chilled slabs.

Chilled slabs cost less per unit of surface area, and are more integrated with structure.

The more tons of steel produced, slabs of concrete poured, and gallons of crude oil pumped out of the ground the better.

Slate is an ideal, and durable material, while in the Swiss Alps roofs are made from huge slabs of stone, several inches thick.

Semi finished products are steel shapes (blooms, billets or slabs) that are later rolled into finished products such as beams bars or sheet.

By early 2005, the barrier was approximately 205 km long, of which 24.1 km consisted of concrete slabs and 181 km was fence like in structure.

Second, these memoirs are usually little more than slabs of self justification interspersed with lists of famous people met in the course of life at the top.

The name of the 19th century temple translates as the Royal Merit, which refers to the merit of King Mindon for donating 729 stone slabs inscribed with the Tipitaka (the Buddhist canonical text).

Seismic standards and confined masonry, where the building acts as a whole walls and columns and roofs and slabs tied together to support each other instead of breaking off into separate members and failing.