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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.

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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.

Can Future Structures Be Made Out of Bone ?

Sarah McGuire July 4, 2016

Researcher at the University of Cambridge are making small batches of the artificial bone and are now in the process of scaling it up for…

Students Use Concrete 3D Printer to Build Concrete Pavilion

Sarah McGuire June 29, 2016

Concrete 3D printing is largely being pushed by small startups, yet the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is using the technology to create some interesting…

Disrupting the Construction Industry Through Technology

Sarah McGuire June 28, 2016

McKinsey & Company has recently released a report that provides in sight on why the construction industry is ripe for disruption. The McKinsey Global Institute…

World’s Largest Continuous Concrete Pour

Giatec Scientific Inc. June 27, 2016

Which construction project received the Guinness title for world’s largest continuous concrete pour? The Wilshire Grand Center in the USA or the Lakhta Center Tower in Russia?

Recycling Sewage Sludge into Concrete

Sarah McGuire June 27, 2016

Wastewater plants in Malaysia face the major challenge of disposing the sludge that is left over from treating sewage water. While studies show that the…

Learn How Software Helps Construction Operations

Sarah McGuire June 22, 2016

Contractors are always on the go — bouncing from jobsites, the office and everywhere in between. Time doesn’t stop on the job, and a project’s…

Research in Traffic Management to Help Field Engineers

Sarah McGuire June 21, 2016

When drivers face a work zone, they have a choice: go through or go around. But for traffic engineers, this choice represents an awkward problem….

To Increase Economic Growth Countries Needs to Increase Infrastructure

Sarah McGuire June 17, 2016

According to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute the world needs to dramatically ramp up spending on infrastructure to keep up with economic…

ACI ANNOUNCES NEW CONCRETE REPAIR CODE

Sarah McGuire June 15, 2016

The American Concrete Institute announces the availability of the new ACI 562-16: Code Requirements for Evaluation, Repair, and Rehabilitation of Concrete Buildings and Commentary. Explore…

Zaha Hadid’s Twisting Concrete Structure Tops Out

Sarah McGuire June 14, 2016

The famous international architecture firm, Zaha Hadid, has topped out the twisting skyscraper in Milan. Originally named ‘lo storto’, (‘the twisted one’), the 170 meter…

Swenson Awarded U.S. Patent for Structural Engineering Design

Sarah McGuire June 13, 2016

Barry Swenson always knew his company’s concrete construction methodology was something pretty special. Now he has the United States patent to prove it. Explore 12…

Construction begins on the Grand Paris Express Metro

Sarah McGuire June 10, 2016

5000 plus Parisians attended a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the future Fort d’Issy-Vanves-Clamart station on June 4 to mark the official start of…

MCI-2020 Can Extend the Service Life of Concrete Structures

Sarah McGuire June 9, 2016

MCI 2020 is an organic, surface applied, migrating corrosion inhibitor designed to penetrate through cementitious materials including concrete, mortar, and limestone. It travels in both…

Bone and Shells as Blueprints for Stronger Concrete

Sarah McGuire June 7, 2016

In the journal Construction and Building Materials, a paper was published contrasting cement paste with the structure and properties of natural materials such as bones,…

Kryton International Awarded an U.S Patent

Sarah McGuire June 3, 2016

Called a Method, Apparatus and System for Testing the Self-Sealing Capabilities of a Concrete Sample, the test measures and verifies the self-sealing properties of concrete…

Upgrading the Panama Canal

Sarah McGuire June 2, 2016

After being up and running for the last 99 years, one of the most impressive engineering structure, will be getting an upgraded. The Panama Canal…

Muskrat Falls Megaproject Concrete Collapse

Sarah McGuire May 30, 2016

According to Gilbert Bennett Nalcor Energy’s vice-president, Nalcor Energy will “ensure a full safety investigation is completed and that the contractor and its workers implement…

The Crumbling Infrastructure in America

Sarah McGuire May 27, 2016

The majority of the United States’ largest infrastructure projects were built in the 19th and the 20th century. The USA was once in the headlines…

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Can Future Structures Be Made Out of Bone ?

Students Use Concrete 3D Printer to Build Concrete Pavilion

Disrupting the Construction Industry Through Technology

World’s Largest Continuous Concrete Pour

Recycling Sewage Sludge into Concrete

Learn How Software Helps Construction Operations

Research in Traffic Management to Help Field Engineers

To Increase Economic Growth Countries Needs to Increase Infrastructure

ACI ANNOUNCES NEW CONCRETE REPAIR CODE

Zaha Hadid’s Twisting Concrete Structure Tops Out

Swenson Awarded U.S. Patent for Structural Engineering Design

Construction begins on the Grand Paris Express Metro

MCI-2020 Can Extend the Service Life of Concrete Structures

Bone and Shells as Blueprints for Stronger Concrete

Kryton International Awarded an U.S Patent

Upgrading the Panama Canal

Muskrat Falls Megaproject Concrete Collapse

The Crumbling Infrastructure in America

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