What are the Giatec Best Paper Awards for Sustainability in Construction?
Giatec is proud to lead the charge and bridge the gap between cutting-edge academic research and real-world sustainable construction. The Giatec Best Paper Award for Sustainability in Construction is our way of celebrating outstanding contributions to the field. Open to civil engineering professors, students, and researchers across Canada and the U.S., this contest invites the brightest minds to showcase their innovative work.
With Giatec’s Best Paper Award, we’re looking to celebrate the groundbreaking research and ideas that can accelerate us toward a sustainable future and encourage our next generation to make their mark in the construction industry.
Aali R. Alizadeh
PhD, P.Eng., Co-Founder, President and CTO
Participants can submit either an expository paper or a previously published article that relates to one of the following topics
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Net-zero concrete practices
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Sustainable concrete technology
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Sustainable construction practices
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Advances in the use of alternative cementitious materials
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Advances in the use and testing of supplementary cementitious materials
Eligibility Criteria
- Articles must be a minimum of 1,000 words in length
- Articles must cover at least one of the topics listed above
- Articles must be written in English and be published under Canada and U.S-based institutions
- Recently published articles are accepted.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: 2025 applications are closed
- Winner announcement: November 4, 2025
Winners of the Giatec Best Paper Award will...
Receive a monetary award of 1,000 USD for the winning article.
Be featured on the Giatec blog for a global audience of 150,000 industry experts.
Be featured across all Giatec’s social media channels, where we engage with 50,000+ users each month.
Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity and start submitting your papers now!
Giatec Best Paper Award Winner
2025
Data-Driven Material Screening of Secondary and Natural Cementitious Precursors
Authors: Mahjoubi, Vineeth Venugopal, Ipek Bensu Manav, Hessam AzariJafari, Randolph E. Kirchain & Elsa A. Olivetti from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Past Giatec Best Paper Winners
2024
Development of Physics-Based Compositional Parameters for Predicting the Reactivity of Amorphous Aluminosilicates in Alkaline Environments
Authors: Kai Gong (Rice University), Claire E. White (Princeton University)
2023
Using Electrical Resistivity to Determine the Efficiency of Supplementary Cementitious Materials to Prevent Alkali-Silica Reaction in Concrete
Authors: Krishna Shiva Teja Chopperla and Jason H. Ideker from Oregon State University Read the full article here2022
Effect of Temperature on CO2 Curing, Compressive Strength and Microstructure of Cement Paste
Authors: Bao Lu, Sarra Drissi, Jianhui Liu, Xiang Hu, Baixin Song, and Caijun Shi
2021
Differentiating Inert and Reactive Pozzolanic Materials using Bulk Resistivity
Authors: Ying Wang, Lisa Burris, Christopher R. Shearer, Douglas Hooton & Prannoy Suraneni
2020
Toward the Prediction of Pore Volumes and Freeze-Thaw Performance of Concrete Using Thermodynamic Modelling
Authors: Keshav Bharadwaj, Deborah Glosser, Mehdi Khanzadeh Moradllo, O. Burkan Isgor & W. Jason Weiss
2019
The effects of damage and self-healing on impedance spectroscopy of strain-hardening cementitious materials
Authors: Shuai Fan, Xiaopeng Li & Mo Li
2018
Nanoscale origins of creep in calcium silicate hydrates
Authors: A. Morshedifard, S. Masoumi & M. J. Abdolhosseini Qomi