Calcite Labs

Building critical infrastructure, from tunnels and bridges to defense installations and data centers, is vital, but we need to make it last. Infrastructure should tell us when it’s failing.

Doing it today takes expensive sensors, plus the labor to install and maintain them for the entire life of the asset. They read a few discrete points and stay blind across everything between them.

We make the $150B precast concrete market self-sensing.

We add self-sensing fillers to existing concrete mixes without supply-chain or deployment changes, and measure strain and cracking without batteries or complex electronics. The material reports its own condition across its whole volume.

Our data layer sits on top. It cleans the signal, holds it steady against the environment, and returns strain from the first day of curing onward.

Every element becomes a part of a whole digital twin. We give consistent live condition records for all kinds of structures, unlocking data that owners, contractors, regulators and insurers can act on.

We are starting out with critical infrastructure. On modeled costs this cuts monitoring by 77 to 82% across offshore wind foundations, marine precast, printed walls, and bridge elements.

We can share our technical paper on request.