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Giatec Scientific Inc. was among one of the nominations for “AI Company of the Year” at the “Canadian FinTech & AI Awards” in Toronto. Read more about this award below.

Giatec Scientific Inc. was among one of the nominations for “Best Innovation in Construction” at the “Construction Innovation Awards 2019” in Dubai. Read the full list of nominees below.

The use of data and analytics has permeated all aspects of construction, and concrete is no exception. The value of data and information is really showing itself in this industry. “For more than a decade,…

The accolades just keep pouring in for an Ottawa-based concrete sensor developer that is the region’s highest-ranked firm in the Globe and Mail’s inaugural list of Canada’s top-growing companies. Giatec Scientific ​– which helps contractors…

Fresh off its appearance on the 2019 Growth 500 list of Canada’s fastest-growing companies, Giatec Scientific sent its co-founder and chief technology officer Pouria Ghods to Techopia Live to break down what’s behind the concrete…

Ottawa’s e-commerce darling, a slew of local tech and professional services firms and one bagel shop all make appearances on Canadian Business magazine’s latest ranking of Canada’s fastest-growing companies. The 2019 Growth 500 list, released…

SmartRock™ has been included in BuiltWorld’s 2019 Smart Jobsite 50 List in the materials category! The Smart Jobsite list features solutions that the construction industry utilizes on the jobsite to collaborate with the office, ensure…

From helping workers interconnect to predicting structural durability, wireless devices are a no-brainer technology for the entire construction hierarchy—if construction owners are serious about up-scaling productivity. As with most construction technologies, wireless communication technology is…

The construction industry is sometimes described as being slow. Often this refers to how long it takes to complete a project, especially when multiple industry specialists are involved. However, more and more the construction industry…

Recently, the early-age strength prediction for RC (reinforced concrete) structures has been an important topic in the construction industry, relating to project-time reduction and structural safety. To address this, numerous destructive and NDTs (non-destructive tests)…

It seems like low-strength breaks always happen at the worst time, when your schedule is already delayed and you are trying to move your project along. Under ACI and CSA Standards, a break is considered…

Big data in construction comes from two primary sources. Business documents such as plans, specs, contracts and regulations make up one bucket, and physical data collected by drones, stationary or handheld recording devices and, increasingly,…