'ceiling slab' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It is typically used in architecture and construction to refer to a flat sheet of concrete or plasterboard that is installed on a ceiling. For example, "The contractor had to install a new ceiling slab in the bedroom to replace the damaged one."
Investigators are focusing on the epoxy glue that held metal tiebacks that supported the tunnel's concrete ceiling slabs.
What stopped construction, at least for a while, was not the ongoing harassment case brought by the owners against a tenant leader, or the wrangling over the rights of tenants during condo conversions, but the discovery of asbestos by city inspectors in "popcorn ceilings," the rough material troweled or sprayed on concrete ceiling slabs when the project was put up in the late 1970s.
Also Thursday, the legislature passed an emergency bill filed by Gov. Mitt Romney, allowing him to take control of the investigation of an accident on Monday night in which several three-ton ceiling slabs fell and crushed a woman to death in her car.
These improvements are needed because the Allegheny Mountain Tunnel is narrow and deteriorating, with disintegrating ceiling slabs and outdated lighting and ventilation.
The new AD 2 was the most efficient to reduce F c of hospital false ceiling slabs before demolition.
Fungal contamination (F c) of the top of false ceiling slabs was assessed using moistened swabs before and after application of the AD.
The yard was overgrown, but otherwise the house was in perfect shape — a yuppie's dream of cherry cabinets, vaulted ceilings, and slab granite.
In architecture, once you remove the skin — the "language" of walls, ceilings and slabs — all that remains is sheer space.
In this paper we present the results from field studies of two low-energy office buildings in California, both using radiant slab ceiling systems (thermally activated building systems, TABS) for primary cooling and heating in the buildings.
At all floors, in ceiling systems, concrete slab thickness of 8 cm is considered.
