Giatec Scientific Inc.

What is the acceptable concrete temperature range during placement and curing?  A ten-degree swing in concrete temperature can be the difference between a slab that cures on schedule and one that cracks, sets too fast, or never reaches its design strength. Most contractors know that extreme weather is ...

Concrete slump is one of the most familiar measurements in the construction industry. Whether at a ready-mix plant, a bridge project, a high-rise development, or a residential slab pour, one of the first questions asked before placement is usually simple: “What’s the slump?”  Despite being one of the most widely used concrete tests in the...

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Concrete does not dry. It cures. That distinction matters more than most people on a jobsite realize, and misunderstanding it is one of the most common sources of costly delays, structural risk, and avoidable rework in concrete construction. Industry-wide, rework already eats an estimated 5% of total project cost on average, and concrete that misses...

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A corrosion mapping test produces a spatial record of electrochemical corrosion state at a point in time. That record has real value. But the map itself does not predict how much service life remains, does not specify what repair is needed, and does not confirm whether an intervention worked. Those answers require connecting the mapping...

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Concrete break data management has always meant working across too many places at once. Lab reports land in inboxes, results get entered manually into spreadsheets, and your live SmartRock® sensor data tells one part of the story while your cylinder break results sit somewhere else entirely. Connecting those dots takes time, manual effort, and creates limited...

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