There is a broad consensus in literature that effective utilisation of natural resources in any industry greatly influences sustainability of built environment. Hence, better management strategies of water began to emerge ...

The concept of Green Buildings is now being promoted as there is an increasing requirement for energy efficient buildings. With the boom of Green Buildings, Green Lease concept has become significant. However in Sri ...

The construction industry in New Zealand is responsible for around 40% natural resources, 30% energy consumption, and 30% greenhouse gases. The increased costs in natural resources, and energy, together with environmental ...

This paper presents an alternative foundation system implemented for a 17 storied mixed development building at Kollupitiya. Initially, the foundation system of above building was designed to contain bored cast insitu piles ...

The Water and Energy transfer Processes Model – WEP Model is a distributed, physically based hydrologic model that has been coupled with a material transport component. The model uses meteorological, geographical, hydrological ...

Smart initial guess of Conjugate Gradient (CG) method for solid finite element simulation is developed by using the meta-modeling based finite element solution conversion method. The key feature of this solution conversion ...

Prefabrication is a sought after area in the AEC industry for manufacture of building components in an off-site controlled environment. Although, most of the structural element such as panels and modules are efficiently ...

With world’s trend, though the Sri Lankan government has taken a substantial effort for local green building movement, still it has not become as a major and pressing concept in Sri Lanka due to several barriers. Those ...

Today the ride comfort plays an important role in the vehicle design as well as in vehicle judgment. There, the whole-body vibration transmission influences on comfort, performance and health condition of the passengers. ...

Facilities management supports operation and maintenance of a building and its services. Facilities management is multi-faceted complex task often challenged by lack of updated information. The implementation of BIM has ...