August 2010: The Get Cracking™ System gains support from Professor Peter Dux, Head of the University of Queensland’s School of Civil Engineering. Read more.

July 2010: The getcracking.com.au website receives a major overhaul.

April 2010: A technical paper on the Get Cracking™ System will be presented at the 5th CECAR 5 and ASEC 2010 International Conference to be held in Sydney 8-12 August 2010. Get a copy of the paperhere.

March 2010: The Get Cracking™ System was used to place over 1500 square metres of concrete for an industrial warehouse in Brisbane and saved over 11 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions. The warehouse is part of a three unit complex being constructed by Douglas Construction. Click here to see photos and read more about this project.

January 2010: ‘T’ sections used in the Get Cracking™ System are redesigned to avoid damage when driven over by concrete delivery trucks.

December 2009: World first technology to non-destructively measure the size of cracks in concrete saw-cut joints is developed to further enhance the Get Cracking™ System. The new method uses specially developed algorithms to analyse the response of low-energy acoustic stress waves in concrete.

December 2007: Designs and plans completed and ready for manufacture of Get Cracking™ production machines.

Novemeber 2008: A new Get Cracking™ machine is used in partnership with Ghitac Newbreed to crack the saw-cut joints of an unreinforced concrete slab on ground for an industrial building development.

September 2008: Two brand new Get Cracking™ machines commissioned and ready for use on commercial jobs in Australia.

Commercial trial of the Get Cracking™ machine in partnership with Douglas Construction

A Commercial Ready Grant for $500,000 is awarded by the Australian Government to build two new Get Cracking™ machines for commercial use.

The Get Cracking™ System is placed second in the finals of the UQ Business School’s Enterprize competition. Read the full story here.

Australian Government approves $64,000 Comet Grant to assist with commercialising the Get Cracking™ System.

Queensland State Government provides $153,500 grant under the EPA’s Partnership Program to build a prototype machine for the Get Cracking™ System.

2004: PCT Patent Documents filed for the innovative Get Cracking™ System.

First trials conducted with primitive equipment designed to crack saw-cut joints in concrete slabs on ground.