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It’s been nine years since Pouria Ghods and Aali Alizadeh, two young and eager civil engineering PhDs from Ottawa, embarked on a quest to do…

With a portfolio of portable technologies for measuring and monitoring corrosion of concrete buildings, Giatec Scientific, a Canada-based company involved in developing non-destructive quality testing…

En la actual fase de hormigonado, según explican a pie de obra los responsables de innovación de Sacyr, se está empleando la última tecnología disponible…

The Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling fundamental changes on the construction jobsite. From productivity, safety, process improvement and new tools, IoT will continue to…

The construction job site is now ripe for fundamental changes that enable productivity, safety, process improvement and new tools. The Internet of Things (IoT) is…

With this system, concrete temperature and strength data collected from your SmartRock wireless sensor is automatically synced to your mobile device, eliminating the need for you…

When choosing a method for monitoring the compressive strength of concrete, it’s important for project managers to consider the impact each technique will have on…

With wireless maturity sensors, such as SmartRock, you’re notified immediately when your in-place concrete has reached 75 percent compressive strength, whether it’s in 12 hours,…

For more than a century, in order to determine concrete’s strength, contractors would cast specimens in cylinders and then put them into a machine to…

Giatec has announced and launched at Bauma, the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) tool for the concrete industry. Called “Roxi” it will have access to…

Contractors may soon be able to more accurately monitor the quality control of concrete on jobsites, thus reducing the chance of human error, thanks to…

An Ottawa tech firm is teaming with a renowned group of Montreal-based artificial intelligence researchers to bring AI to the concrete industry.At the enormous bauma…

The proprietor of the wireless, slab-embedded SmartRock sensor is extending its temperature and maturity monitoring capabilities with Roxi, a platform applying artificial intelligence methods to…

Low-cost wireless sensors are replacing the century-old practice to determine when a concrete pour has properly cured.Stoneway Concrete sells Giatec concrete sensors to contractors and…

The World of Concrete is a massive industry event hosted annually at the Las Vegas Convention Center. For those who have never been, it’s an…

Materials Performance (MP) Magazine honored the new class of winners for the 2019 MP Corrosion Innovation of the Year Awards program in Monday’s ceremony at…

Strength has been traditionally calculated by breaking sample cylinders cast from the same concrete material used for the building of a structure. In fact, using…

Technological advancements have made it possible to obtain in-place strength data faster, without performing break tests. In particular, SmartRock®, the most widely used wire-free concrete…