One of the main issues of the thermal discomfort inside buildings is heat gain from building envelope. As a remedy, active cooling solutions such as air conditioners are commonly used. But that can never be admired owing ...

Walking, aside from mobility is also recognized as a means to stay physically fit while increasing social interaction, promoting community wellbeing and reducing stress on the environment. This has thus led to a growing ...

The rate of resource consumption today is more than the rate of generation in natural resources. In developing countries, municipal solid waste (MSW) is a growing problem due to heterogeneous composition, non-biodegradability ...

Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has grown from a small trading town to a metropolitan city by developing an organic pattern spontaneously. Simultaneously rigid planning developed in line with the inhabitant's aspirations ...

Landslide is one of the main natural disaster that Sri Lankan intermediate zone faced. In most of the cases, property damage and vulnerability of people significantly high compared to the other natural disasters. This ...

Knowledge can be defined as a dynamic social construction of reality dependent upon the specific experiences made by individuals; it does not already exist in individuals but is continuously produced and revised in a social ...