What Are the Giatec Best Paper Awards for Sustainability in Construction?
With Giatec’s Best Paper Award, we’re looking to celebrate the groundbreaking research and ideas that can accelerate us toward a sustainable future and encourage our next generation to make their mark in the construction industry.
Aali R. Alizadeh
PhD, P.Eng., Co-Founder, President and CTO
Participants can submit either an expository paper or a previously published article that relates to one of the following topics
Net-zero concrete practices
Sustainable concrete technology
Sustainable construction practices
Advances in the use of alternative cementitious materials
Advances in the use and testing of supplementary cementitious materials
Eligibility Criteria
- Articles must be a minimum of 1,000 words in length
- Articles must cover at least one of the topics listed above
- Articles must be written in English and be published under Canada and U.S-based institutions
- Previously published articles must have been issued in 2023 or prior to submission deadline
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: 2024 applications are closed
- Winner announcement: November 5, 2024
Winners of the Giatec Best Paper Award will...
Receive a monetary award of 1,000 USD for the winning article.
Be featured on the Giatec blog for a global audience of 150,000 industry experts.
Be featured across all Giatec’s social media channels, where we engage with 50,000+ users each month.
Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity and start submitting your papers now!
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2024 Giatec Best Paper Award Winner
Development of Physics-Based Compositional Parameters for Predicting the Reactivity of Amorphous Aluminosilicates in Alkaline Environments
Authors: Kai Gong (Rice University), Claire E. White (Princeton University)
Past Giatec Best Paper Winners
2023
Using Electrical Resistivity to Determine the Efficiency of Supplementary Cementitious Materials to Prevent Alkali-Silica Reaction in Concrete
Authors: Krishna Shiva Teja Chopperla and Jason H. Ideker from Oregon State University
2022
Effect of Temperature on CO2 Curing, Compressive Strength and Microstructure of Cement Paste
Authors: Bao Lu, Sarra Drissi, Jianhui Liu, Xiang Hu, Baixin Song, and Caijun Shi
2021
Differentiating Inert and Reactive Pozzolanic Materials using Bulk Resistivity
Authors: Ying Wang, Lisa Burris, Christopher R. Shearer, Douglas Hooton & Prannoy Suraneni
2020
Toward the Prediction of Pore Volumes and Freeze-Thaw Performance of Concrete Using Thermodynamic Modelling
Authors: Keshav Bharadwaj, Deborah Glosser, Mehdi Khanzadeh Moradllo, O. Burkan Isgor & W. Jason Weiss
2019
The effects of damage and self-healing on impedance spectroscopy of strain-hardening cementitious materials
Authors: Shuai Fan, Xiaopeng Li & Mo Li
2018
Nanoscale origins of creep in calcium silicate hydrates
Authors: A. Morshedifard, S. Masoumi & M. J. Abdolhosseini Qomi
