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Application of ArcGIS Model Builder and Python Scripting for urban Flood Modeling

Bandara, DMPD; Mahanama, PKS; Warusavitharana, EJ [Article-Full-text]

Accurate projection of flood extents in urban catchments has become a challenging task. Accurate data on inundation is useful for identifying flood risk areas and developing flood management strategies to mitigate the ...
Colour as a Tool to Manipulate Indoor Thermal Perception in Tropical Upland Climate; A Field Experiment Implemented in Sri Lanka

Welitharage, M; Hettiarachchi, A [Article-Full-text]

Incorporating warm colours in the interiors of tropical uplands characterissed by a cold climatic condition, was hypothesised to help the inhabitants to perceive the indoor thermal environment as comparatively warmer, ...
Competencies Expected of Graduate Quantity Surveyors by the Sri Lankan Construction Industry

Yogeshwaran, G; Perera, BAKS; Perera, KTPK [Article-Full-text]

Quantity surveying is one of the prominent professions in the construction industry. With the increasing complexity in construction projects, competencies of QSs have become utmost significant. Moreover, new opportunities ...
Construction and Demolition Waste Management Gaps in Construction Industry

Karunasena, G; Ranjan, H; Rathnayake, U [Article-Full-text]

Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste is one of the fastest growing waste stream in Sri Lanka due to the construction boom after three decade of war. Thus, C&D waste management has become an environmental problem due ...
Cost Benefits of Steel compared to In-situ Concrete in Sri Lankan Building Construction

Chandanie, H; Kandemulla, L [Article-Full-text]

Ever increasing building construction activities involve high technologies and innovations to overcome the challenges in front of the process. Among the key challenges of building construction, cost of construction is ...
Current Approaches for Bid/No Bid Decision Making by the Contracting Organisations in Sri Lanka

Gamage, IS; Perera, BAKS; Perera, KTPK [Article-Full-text]

Construction bidding is the procedure for submitting comprehensive proposals by bidders for undertakingconstruction projects. Contractors often procure projects through competitive bidding and the bid/no bid decision ...
Dreams Fall Apart: People’s Experience of a Development Project in Sri Lanka

Dissanayake, P [Article-Full-text]

Today, “development” has become one of the most influential and dominant concepts among global political and economic discourses. For many scholars the concept of development has become a convincing notion after the Second ...
Emergence and Amelioration of Students' Creativity through Practice Based Learning in Relation to Design Education

Liyanage, PP; Jayasekara, RB [Article-Full-text]

Practice-based education (PBE) offers the students an invaluable experience to gain knowledge and improve their skills towards diverse fields which prove the realities in the social and physical context.’ (Clifford, Macy, ...
Factors of the Built Environment that Affects the Walkability in a Sri Lankan Urban Neighborhood

Rathnasiri, GKS; Ranasinghe, TKGP; Susantha, AL [Article-Full-text]

The quality of the neighboring environment plays a major role in encouraging people to walk when attending to their daily needs. Although many previous studies identified a relationship between different factors of the ...
Identification of body adornment concepts in Sinhalese jewellery

Pathirana, H [Article-Full-text]

Adornment is a beautification and embellishment, and an addition to the pleasantness and attractiveness, a decoration that is added to relieve plainness. The human form has been subjected to adornment from the past to the ...
Influence of urban water bodies on microclimate and thermal comfort: Case study of Beira Lake, Colombo

Perera, NGR; Liyanapathirana, A [Article-Full-text]

This study explores the possibility of urban water body induced city cooling in the Sri Lankan context, with special reference to the Beira Lake, Colombo. The research method utilises the computer simulation tool ENVI-met ...
An Investigation of Key Factors to Uplift Traditional Lac (Laksha) Craft in Sri Lanka

Ranasinghe, WMND [Article-Full-text]

Lac craft is a traditional craft in Sri Lanka and it has a traditional immense and endurance history. Lac is one of the decorative medium that can be applied on different types of materials, such as wood, ivory, pottery, ...
Issues in small sector housing construction in Sri Lanka: case of services installation

Roshan, AGJ; Waidyasekara, KGAS [Article-Full-text]

Building a house is a life time venture and a dream of many individuals. However, constructing a house is a complicated process which involves interpreting various ideas and collection of number of people’s effort. In ...
Managing Facilities Manager’s Knowledge through Knowledge Capture, Knowledge Store and Knowledge Reuse

Abeysinghe, NSD; Senaratne, S [Article-Full-text]

The profession of facilities management (FM) is becoming knowledge driven. In this regard, managing facilities managers’ knowledge helps for a better output through the creation of supportive and cost effective physical ...
Modeling Colombo's land uses with Metronamica: a demonstrative approach

Wimaladasa, GJ; De Silva, MCK; Jayasinghe, AB; Munasinghe, JN [Article-Full-text]

The enormous complexity built into cities makes them difficult to understand for any purpose. The ever changing land uses in any city is not an exemption, despite its importance for planners to know at some level of ...
Potential Brokerages in Relationally Integrated Value Networks (RIVANS) for Total Facilities Management: Literature Findings

Weerasinghe, RPNP; De Silva, N [Article-Full-text]

The collaborative supply chain networks in relational contracting modes have gained considerable attentions in recent decades as an essential prerequisite for enhancing business performance. Accordingly, integration of ...
Selection of Sustainable Composite Partition Material for Sri Lankan context

Athambawa, SH; Ramachandra, T; Sabrina, NF [Article-Full-text]

Building materials are deemed to play a vital role in increasing buildings sustainability while contributing to the economic prosperity. Usage of large quantity of non-renewable resources in the building materials has a ...
A Study of Payment Issues to Constructors in the Sri Lankan Construction Industry

Francis, M; Ramachandra, T [Article-Full-text]

Payment issues to main contractors and the subcontractors have been a major concern in the construction industry. This research therefore, investigates the payment issues to constructors in the Sri Lankan construction ...
A Study of Procurement Selection for Bridge Construction

Shanmuganathan, A; Disaratna, V; Francis, M [Article-Full-text]

Construction industry is pivotal part of any countries economy. Hence, the construction procurement selection is paramount important. This affects the successful and satisfactory completion and delivery of projects. In ...
A Study on the Potenil of Rainwater Harvesting Practices to Mitigate Urban Floods

Lanka, WMJ; Ranasinghe, TKGP; Herath, M [Article-Full-text]

Floods are a prominent issue and the challenge of urban flooding can be turned into an opportunity by adopting rainwater harvesting practices. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) works asa more reliable, cost effective and sustainable ...

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