The Ready-Mixed Concrete (RMC) industry is one of the fastest growing construction sectors and plays an important role towards infrastructure development. The RMC industry is expected to rise from INR 155-160 billion in ...

Alliance contracting is a procurement approach which involves the collaboration of a project owner and non‐owner participants to share the responsibility for project risks and for achieving project objectives. There is ...

In recent years, there has been a growing trend in applying lean principles outside of manufacturing. In the construction context, lean construction has become an established theme since the early 1990s. However, very ...

Concrete is a major component of construction waste. The amount of concrete wasted in Sri Lanka is significant compared to the amounts wasted in other countries. Traditional strategies adapted to minimise concrete wastage ...

There has been an increase in lean implementation in the construction industry during last few decades, but the progress has been hampered by several barriers. This is due to evidence that suggest the misconceptions regarding ...