Rocscience is truly global. With
a head office in Toronto, the
company provides geotechnical
software to its more than
7,000 customers around the world. Not
bad for a company that was officially
formed a little more than 20 years ago
as a spin-off from the University of
Toronto.
Situated in a beautiful home-like
and cozy office in the heart of downtown
Toronto, its exterior would never
suggest that inside is a team of 33
developers, engineers, marketers and
support staff that regularly communicates
with more than 120 countries.
Specializing in 2-D and 3-D analysis
and design programs for civil
engineering and mining applications,
Rocscience president Dr. Thamer
Yacoub says the company offers
different software solutions to design
and analyze deep foundations.
“These tools include simple analysis
software like RSPile, which helps
geotechnical engineers analyze single
or group piles using simple methods
like the p-y method,” said Yacoub. “On
the more advanced side, we offer userfriendly
tools to perform complex and
detailed analysis using finite element
methods in both two and three dimensions:
RS2 and RS3, respectively. Both
in Canada and around the world, our
most popular foundations products
are RS2, RS3, RSPile and Settle3D.”
Rocscience’s high-quality programs
allow engineers to quickly and
accurately analyze surface and underground
structures in rock and soil,
thereby improving safety and reducing
the cost of design projects.
COMPANY PROFILE
Rocscience
From its humble beginning more than two decades ago, this software company
has morphed from a small spin-off company into a global enterprise
By Lisa Kopochinski
History
The evolution of Rocscience actually
dates back three decades to
1987, when the Rock Engineering
Group at the University of Toronto
ALL IMAGES COURTESY OF ROCSCIENCE
The Rocscience team at their
office in downtown Toronto
Rocscience president, Dr. Thamer Yacoub
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