Giatec’s mission is to bring disruptive, knowledge-based, and sustainable technologies to the concrete industry. We identify current challenges in concrete testing and design innovative solutions to address them. Our products allow concrete producers, contractors, and business owners to increase profitability of their projects by saving time, labor, and costs. We attract and retain talented and passionate employees, empowering them to develop diverse personal skills and thrive in their careers.
We are always looking for creative and revolutionary ways to solve problems. We strive to continuously innovate and make incremental improvements to our technology.
We are passionate about what we do and the world around us, that’s why we are continuously moving forward, innovating, and improving.
We are consistently open, honest, ethical, and genuine. We set and exceed our own high standards, constantly raising the bar for ourselves.
In 2010, Pouria Ghods and Aali R. Alizadeh, two friends and Ph.D. graduates in civil engineering specializing in concrete, realized the vast differences of advances in academia tools and research versus the reality of bridges built just a few decades ago collapsing, taking lives as they came down. In September of 2010, they put into practice the knowledge they had accumulated and poured their passion into a vision for stronger, safer, and sustainable construction.
Over countless cups of coffee, Giatec was founded. The pair began working with advisers at Invest Ottawa, and arranged sources, funding and ideas to bring Giatec’s products to the market. The company’s first product was a sensor to detect corrosion speed in the rebar on steel inside concrete.
Inspired by client feedback, Giatec then launches the first truly wireless temperature and strength monitoring sensor that set a new standard for concrete testing equipment and laid the foundation for the award-winning SmartRock Sensors known today.
Listening to customer needs, Giatec launches Giatec 360™, an advanced web-based dashboard for monitoring and managing concrete pours. With its data analytics, reporting, and user management capabilities for the SmartRock sensors, it set the next level for concrete analysis.
2019 marked the launch of Roxi, the 1st AI program for concrete testing used to minimize human-error, reduce cement usage, and analyze mix performance. With SmartRock sensors embedded in thousands of jobsites in hundreds of countries, the machine learning algorithm is trained on the largest dataset ever collected on concrete performance. It doesn’t end there! To complete the ecosystem, Giatec also launches SmartHub, a remote monitoring system that enables access to concrete data at any time, from any location, winning SmartRock the Most Innovative Product at World of Concrete 2019.
Giatec celebrates its first decade bringing smart testing technologies and IoT solutions to jobsites, revolutionizing the concrete industry one sensor at a time.
At Giatec, innovation never stops. SmartMix™ was launched in 2021 as a web-based dashboard that enables producers to optimize concrete mixes and predict their materials’ performance with the use of Roxi’s AI algorithm.
The Giatec ecosystem of hardware and software products brings advanced smart testing technologies and real-time data collection to the forefront of every jobsite, driving innovation throughout concrete’s lifecycle and providing construction workers with a whole new level of safer efficiency while reducing concrete’s carbon footprint.
