The study aims to improve land clearance processes in Urban Development Authority (UDA) with the support of Geographic Information Systems. The objective is realized through the conduct of geographical analysis, query, and ...
Office buildings are one of the main categories of buildings which possess a rapid
growth rate in the context of urbanization. They contribute to a major part of energy
consumption in commercial building sector. Even ...
Landfilling has now become a prime concern all around the world, not only
because it squanders usable land, it causes major environmental issues such
as contamination of soil, water, and air, as well as an impact on ...
Transport demand models assess impacts of transport policies and transport infrastructure. In recent times transport modellers have been moving towards disaggregate activity based models from widely used aggregate trip/tour ...
Sustainability is a universal concept applied in all industries and services to instigate a base of responsibility in an individual and collective manner. The need to promote the concept and hold stakeholders responsible ...
The energy used to maintain the thermal comfort of building greatly contributes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global warming. This study developed a sustainable cost-effective rice husk ash (RHA) based mortar for ...
Mahaweli river is the longest river in Sri Lanka which flows through all the climatological regions with vast diversities in precipitations, environmental conditions, water usages, and livelihoods. The hydrology of the ...
World population is rising day by day. Due to the increment of population, the demand for all the needs including foods, clothes, shelter etc. are also being increased. Therefore, escalating the production of various sectors ...
Unlike other economic sectors, the construction industry is characterized by which are discontinues, dispersed, diverse and distinct. Therefore, improvement of quality in construction works is comparably difficult as in ...
Low-rise structures are not often subjected to rigorous structural analysis, despite their omnipresence. Estimating wind loads on low buildings is moderately complicated
compared to high-rise structures due to the effect ...
The rapid growth of global human population necessitates the facilitation of increased
number of buildings and other infrastructure. Primarily in economically developing
nations, these buildings are designed only complying ...
This study focuses on the development of an adhesive to bond Carbon Fibre Reinforced
Polymer (CFRP) fabric with a concrete substrate which performs well under elevated
temperature. The epoxy adhesive which is the generally ...
At present several primary and secondary treatment techniques have been used to remove iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) from low polluting textile wastewaters. However past surveys and studies carried out in the industrial ...
The problems of scheduling and schedule co-ordination have conflicting objectives related to user’s cost, operator’s cost, overloading and crew deployment hours. Passengers would like to have bus service where there is ...
Rainfall induced slope failures are a very critical issue in Sri Lanka. The risk of rainfall induced slope failures has increased over the past few years in Sri Lanka due to the introduction of new cut slopes as a part of ...
Applicability of concrete filled steel tubes (CFST) for compression members in truss type steel light vehicular bridges is studied in this research as an economical solution for the lack of light vehicular bridges in Sri ...
Ratmalana-Moratuwa industrial area has been subject to heavy pollution from various industries for more than a decade. This area is believed to have been polluted with heavy metals that have some drastic adverse impacts ...
In Sri Lanka, monsoonal floods, droughts, cyclones and landslides are the common
and well-known natural hazards and almost every year the country experiences one or
more of these hazards. Tsunamis have not been frequent ...
The downstream of the Kelani river with relatively flat terrain is extremely important as a region with high population density and semi/highly built-up areas. However, this part of the basin is highly flood-prone and ...
Synthetic fiber blended textile (polyester spandex) offcuts generated from apparel industry is considered as a waste; currently it is incinerated as fuel in the cement manufacturing process and remainder ends up in illegal ...