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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...