Jayarathna, HMMU; Francis, M; Liyanawatta, TN[Conference-Full-text]
Due to the complicated nature of building projects and the participation of several participants, disputes are inescapable in the building projects. The disadvantages of the Dispute Resolution Mechanisms (DRM) utilized in ...
Productivity is a critical performance indicator of the construction industry, and thus warrants effective and efficient construction productivity measurement (CPM). Building information modelling (BIM), a digital ...
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is relatively a new buzzword in the Construction Industry;
however BIM is not yet practiced in Sri Lankan construction industry and not many in the industry
know about it. BIM is now ...
Real-world implementations of BIM can serve as use cases to demonstrate BIM implementation strategy
in practice. This paper presents the findings from a case study of BIM implementation on a housing project in the
Netherlands. ...
Building prediction models with the right balance between performance and interpretability is currently a great challenge in machine learning. A large number of recent studies have focused on either building intrinsically ...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contribution of building management system (BMS) towards a sustainable built environment.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based on the findings of a ...
From Stone Age to Modem Age humans have changed their surrounding environment
to satisfy their comfort condition needs. People who lived in the tropical regions were
trying to merge with their surrounding environment ...
All over the world, sustainability has been given immense attention, thus novel stateof-the-art
materials and building systems are emerging as alternatives. With those
different alternatives, comparison and the selection ...
Top-down approach used to build housing for the Tsunami victims in Sri Lanka evolved around the number of houses destroyed. The selection of land and the number of units to be built were donor-biased decisions. This ...
Tsunami struck Sri Lanka on December 26th 2004. This has been the worst natural disaster in
island’s history. Within hours the unprecedented destruction of quick snuffed around 40,000
lives, over 80,000 houses, and ...
Tsunami struck Sri Lanka on December 26th 2004. This has been the worst natural disaster in
island's history. Within hours the unprecedented destruction of quick snuffed around 40,000
lives, over 80,000 houses, and ...
Top-down approach used to build housing for
the Tsunami victims in Sri Lanka evolved
around the number of houses destroyed. The
selection of land and the number of units to
be built were donor-biased decisions. ...
Top-down approach used to build housing for
the Tsunami victims in Sri Lanka evolved
around the number of houses destroyed. The
selection of land and the number of units to
be built were donor-biased decisions. ...
Globally, e-waste generation rises in parallel to the increased consumption of
e-products. Management of this complex waste stream becomes a severe challenge,
especially for developing countries. Sri Lanka also no exception ...
With the aim of promoting sustainable construction, several building materials with lower life cycle cost have been developed. This in turn would limit the over exploitation of natural resources used to produce conventional ...
Buildings facilitate organizational performance by creating a comfortable and stable internal environment for the occupants. Traditionally, micro level criteria have been used by the building professionals in understanding ...
Building project performance evaluation is a novel research interest in performance measurement (PM) and it is the process of quantifying the efficiency and effectiveness of construction activities. The traditional view ...
Enterprises continually seek innovative approaches to reduce operational computing costs while extracting the
maximum utility from their resources. Cloud Computing technology play a major role in helping organizations ...
Building services outsourcing has become popular as it gives a peace-of-mind for the firms by contracting operation and maintenance of the building services to an external expert party for an agreed period and for agreed ...
Within the last ten years, the world witnessed four serious epidemics. COVID-19 has been the most serious of these ones in terms of the number of people affected and the lives lost. In order to contain the spread of the ...