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The Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) provides major investments in innovative projects that will help grow Canada's economy for the benefit of all Canadians. SIF covers all sectors of the economy and is available to for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, with the goal of supporting the Canadian innovation network.
Giatec Scientific Inc. was founded in 2011 with a mission to bring disruptive, knowledge-based and sustainable technologies to the concrete industry. Its products allow concrete producers, contractors and business owners to increase the profitability of their projects by improving efficiencies, while reducing the environmental impact of the concrete industry.
SmartMix™ platform is an innovation that will allow Giatec Scientific Inc. to design cost-optimized concrete mixes. The project will lead to the development, deployment and commercialization of sensory/software technologies that can be used to monitor concrete throughout its life cycle, from variabilities in raw material to in-transit properties to characteristics of the completed concrete over its lifetime.
The technology developed through this project will contribute to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of concrete manufacturing by up to 20% by optimizing concrete mixtures to use less cement.
Through the Roadmap to Net-Zero Carbon Concrete by 2050, the Government of Canada, in partnership with the Canadian cement and concrete industry, has charted the course to a net-zero carbon cement and concrete industry by 2050, committing to reduce more than 15 megatonnes (Mt) of greenhouse gas emissions cumulatively by 2030, and more than 4 Mt annually thereafter.

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