Using SmartRock® Plus to Defend your Concrete
You’re not alone. It’s not only in your market that testing labs produce bad results and you have to pay to defend your concrete. This is a big, broad problem across North America and around the world. Big Projects Deserve Better Protection Keep mega pours safe from cold-weather…
What if there was a new technology to help you quickly, easily improve the profitability of your ready mix business? What would this “ideal” new technology look like to a concrete producer? It would probably encompass: Big Projects Deserve Better Protection Keep mega pours safe from cold-weather risks….
3 Ways Telematics Can Improve Construction
In the pursuit of saving time, it becomes difficult when a project is caught up in contracts and agreements, project changes, and the many regulations and procedures that are necessary to complete a project. These problems cause other concerns such as relevant equipment, materials, and foreman required to…
4 Uses of SmartRock® Plus for Prestressed Concrete Producers
SmartRock® Plus was originally designed for ready mix producers, however, prestressed concrete producers now also see a lot of opportunity in this technology. There are four ways prestressed producers can take advantage of the SmartRock® Plus technology for real-time monitoring of temperature, strength, and maturity. Big Projects Deserve…
Road Salt Meets its Match With a New Type of Concrete
More Durable Concrete That Doesn’t React to Salt It has been a known fact for engineers that road salt, used as a de-icing agent every winter to protect the roads from the dangerous build-up of ice, are also responsible for the slow degradation of the concrete to which…
Could SmartRock® Plus Replace Concrete Cylinders for Acceptance Testing?
In a typical construction project, the strength of the concrete is assumed to be the same as the strength of the cylinders cast from that same load of concrete. Cylinders are made in the field, by a technician and cured under standard conditions. The cylinders are not intended…
SmartRock® Plus: Real-Time Concrete Strength
Why would anybody need to know the strength of their concrete at any given moment on the jobsite? Big Projects Deserve Better Protection Keep mega pours safe from cold-weather risks. Real-time insights, up to 1,000 ft away with SmartRock® Long Range Request a Quote In the construction world,…
Who Can Benefit from the SmartRock® Plus Solution?
Speeding up Construction Projects with SmartRock® Plus SmartRock® Plus is designed to speed up construction on projects incorporating critical path concrete. The days saved on a schedule can benefit the developer, the contractors, and the concrete producer. Big Projects Deserve Better Protection Keep mega pours safe from cold-weather…
Space Concrete and the Future of Colonies on Mars
An Alternative To Shipping Tonnes of Concrete To Mars With NASA predicting that humans will set foot on Mars for the first time by the year 2030, it comes as no surprise that the next step would be to initiate colonization on the red planet. And with the…
Concrete Speakers Create Pure Sound by Reducing Vibrations
Sleek design and Superior Sound Performance Today we are always striving to find new and innovative ways of producing a wide range of products in a more eco-friendly manner, thus reducing the carbon footprint we leave behind. One means of doing so is by venturing away from the…
SmartRock Sensors Help Project Managers Make Quick Decisions
Wanda Vista is a nearly 100-story skyscraper currently under construction in Chicago (Illinois) and will be the city’s third largest tower upon completion. The project includes various post-tensioned elements. To apply tension on the cables in these elements, it is critical to ensure that the concrete has enough…
Slag Cement Life Cycle Assessment Calculator Free to Download
Get ready, ready-mix concrete industry, because the Slag Cement Association (SCA) has just introduced a new Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) calculator for slag cement, and it’s free to download! Big Projects Deserve Better Protection Keep mega pours safe from cold-weather risks. Real-time insights, up to 1,000 ft away…
Bullet-Proof Concrete Proposed for Border Wall
With President Trump’s border wall plans heavily in the works, a North Carolina company is ready to get their hands dirty. Partnering with a construction company in Texas, a bid application to build a concrete wall using a patented ballistics concrete that has the capability to absorb bullets…
Big Projects Deserve Better Protection Keep mega pours safe from cold-weather risks. Real-time insights, up to 1,000 ft away with SmartRock® Long Range Request a Quote While the SmartRock® Plus system is a full business solution for improving ready mix producer market share, customer loyalty, and profitability, at…
Fire Deteriorates Atlanta’s I-85 Concrete Bridge
A raging fire, now suspected to be the result of an act or arson, led to the most used bridge in Atlanta collapsing on Thursday, March 31, 2017. The fire erupted in a storage area beneath the I-85 Bridge where a variety of construction equipment was being held….
Giatec Welcomes Concrete Materials as a SmartRock® Plus Producer
March 30, 2017 Big Projects Deserve Better Protection Keep mega pours safe from cold-weather risks. Real-time insights, up to 1,000 ft away with SmartRock® Long Range Request a Quote Concrete Materials, a leading producer of ready-mix concrete in South Dakota, partners with Giatec to offer SmartRock® Plus to…
Relieving Pressure on Concrete Foundation Walls with Stud Rails
A deep five-level underground concrete foundation to support a 45-storey condo that is currently being built in downtown Toronto is using an innovative method to relieve shear pressure. That is, rather than employing the traditional ‘rebar stirrup’ method to strength the foundation walls against shear forces, which is…
The Importance of Sequencing for Precast Concrete
Naturally, precasters spend a large amount of their time working to understand the chosen materials that go into their concrete mix designs. But how important is the order to which they choose to introduce these various components into the mix? Also known as sequencing, the order that they…
