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- 2012 - (Vol. 04, Issue 01)
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2012 - (Vol. 04, Issue 01)
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[Article-Full-text]Gem and jewellery industry in Sri Lanka plays a vital role contributing immensely to foreign exchange earning to the country’s economy. The industrial value chain begins with gem mining and ends with retailing of jewellery ...
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[Article-Full-text]useful material in the past. Clay was identified as a material to produce culinary utensils and objects. When fired, clay gets hard enough to make durable objects and it adds a value to the product. At the beginning, designs ...
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[Article-Full-text]According to the Oxford English dictionary the meaning of costume denotes ‘the distinctive style of coiffure, jewellery, and apparel of a period, country, class or a group’. Costumes are considered as things that are laid ...
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[Article-Full-text]The equatorial tropics are experiencing an explosive urban growth. With intensified urbanisation comes a rapid increase in atmospheric carbon, dwindling resources and concerns over energy security. In this context the need ...
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[Article-Full-text]Interior design is the art of making a space both comfortable and aesthetically pleasing; this is achieved mainly by applying interior design principles. Human involvements in the field of interior design do not produce a ...
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[Article-Full-text]The Reciprocal relationship between the population distribution and the transport network pattern has been widely discussed, for example when the population increases; demand for transport related infrastructure increases ...
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[Article-Full-text]Rapidly increasing traffic congestion in urban and suburban roads raises the urgent need for an efficient railway service in Sri Lanka. In studies on rail transportation planning, however, travel demand has often taken a ...
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[Article-Full-text]A construction project is commonly acknowledged as successful when it is completed on time, within budget, and in accordance with specifications and to the stakeholders’ satisfaction. However, outside the control of the ...
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[Article-Full-text]Reflecting on emerging trends in the built environment is significant in understanding the past, present and future of the local and global aspects of human development. This paper focuses on gate houses in institutional ...
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[Article-Full-text]Academic research in built environment consists of cognitive, affective as well as behavioural components. Existing built environment research does not reveal many encouraging signs of changes in the way that the construction ...
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[Article-Full-text]Research has shown that colour stimuli could trigger certain fixed emotional and behavioural responses within human beings. Consequently, transcending its typical aesthetic value, colours have a greater potential to be ...
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[Article-Full-text]When people hear the term “Solid waste management” they immediately think of recycling. But it is not the aspect that requires the greatest expenditure, or has the greatest impact on the urban environment and public health. ...
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[Article-Full-text]Lean construction is a concept still new to many in the construction industry around the world. All construction activities can be divided into two; conversion activities which produce tangibles and flow activities which ...