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Giatec is driving breakthrough innovations in the concrete industry, bringing real-time data on concrete performance to the forefront of every construction jobsite. Their suite of hardware and software products, including non-destructive testing technologies, IoT solutions, and wireless sensors, analyze data throughout concrete’s lifecycle, helping to build structures faster, safer, and more economically.

Road Salt Meets its Match With a New Type of Concrete

Sarah McGuire May 25, 2017

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…

Could SmartRock® Plus Replace Concrete Cylinders for Acceptance Testing?

Sarah McGuire May 8, 2017

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…

SmartRock® Plus: Real-Time Concrete Strength

Sarah McGuire May 8, 2017

Why would anybody need to know the strength of their concrete at any given moment on the jobsite? In the construction world, time is money….

Who Can Benefit from the SmartRock® Plus Solution?

Sarah McGuire May 8, 2017

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…

Space Concrete and the Future of Colonies on Mars

Sarah McGuire May 8, 2017

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…

Concrete Speakers Create Pure Sound by Reducing Vibrations

Sarah McGuire April 24, 2017

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…

SmartRock Sensors Help Project Managers Make Quick Decisions

Giatec Scientific Inc. April 20, 2017

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…

Slag Cement Life Cycle Assessment Calculator Free to Download

Giatec Scientific Inc. April 13, 2017

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…

Bullet-Proof Concrete Proposed for Border Wall

Sarah McGuire April 12, 2017

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…

Components of SmartRock® Plus

Giatec Scientific Inc. April 10, 2017

While the SmartRock® Plus system is a full business solution for improving ready mix producer market share, customer loyalty, and profitability, at the heart are…

Fire Deteriorates Atlanta’s I-85 Concrete Bridge

Sarah McGuire April 4, 2017

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,…

Giatec Welcomes Concrete Materials as a SmartRock® Plus Producer

Giatec Scientific Inc. March 30, 2017

March 30, 2017 Concrete Materials, a leading producer of ready-mix concrete in South Dakota, partners with Giatec to offer SmartRock® Plus to local contractors. SmartRock®…

Relieving Pressure on Concrete Foundation Walls with Stud Rails

Shaye-Lynne Dodd March 20, 2017

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…

The Importance of Sequencing for Precast Concrete

Sarah McGuire March 17, 2017

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…

Re-Thinking Captured Carbon

Shaye-Lynne Dodd March 14, 2017

What to do with Captured Carbon? With concrete being the second most consumed substance on earth (next to water), it is no secret that the…

What to do with Captured Carbon?

Shaye-Lynne Dodd March 13, 2017

With concrete being the second most consumed substance on earth (next to water), , it is no secret that the concrete industry is one of…

6 Reasons Ready-Mix Producers Should Partner with SmartRock® Plus

Giatec Scientific Inc. March 9, 2017

SmartRock® Plus is the new, branded, concrete mix solution designed to help concrete producers improve their bottom line. Ready mix companies are signing up for…

Sydney Metro Job Structural Failure Leads to Delays

Sarah McGuire March 6, 2017

Australia is currently working on a large-scale infrastructure project known as the Sydney Metre Job. Unfortunately, a key component of Australia’s biggest public transport infrastructure…

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