• Prospect of establishing smart car park system for commercial buildings in Sri Lanka 

  Abeynayake, MDTE; Menoli kaushalya, PL [Conference-Full-text]

  ‘Car parking’ can be considered as a pivotal challenge and one of the major contributors to traffic congestion in urban areas. This challenge is a result of a dramatic increase in numbers of automobiles on the roads as ...
• Visual landscape characteristics and tourists’ satisfaction: a study with reference to Nuwara-Eliya, Sri Lanka 

  Sewwandi, HHSP [Conference-Full-text]

  The power of the landscape to draw tourists seeking spectacle has a long tradition and landscapes are prone to the tourism industry. Sri Lanka is well-known as a popular tourist destination, because of the country's unique ...
• An investigation of the process of commercial gentrification & optimum utilization of land at neighbourhood levels 

  Lakprasadini, KADH; Rizvi, NM [Conference-Full-text]

  Commercial Gentrification has a significant impact on the spatial transformations of ordinary settlements to commercial users. This research focuses on the process of commercial gentrification taking place with the ...
• User experience in traditional domestic preparation products in different cultures of Sri Lanka: Special reference to String Hopper Press (“Idiappa Wangediya”) 

  Hettiarachchi, AD; Ranasinghe, WMND [Conference-Full-text]

  Traditional domestic manual handling products have many unique characteristics according to cultural backgrounds. Although to complete one task, people are using different products in different contexts in Sri Lanka. These ...
• The Visual characteristics of railside landscape for tourists’ satisfaction 

  Guruge, SPPGDK; De Silva, W [Conference-Full-text]

  Moving Landscape Aesthetic Quality (MLAQ) has been a topic that had taken less attention from the researchers. Though a great effort is given to interpret the aesthetic quality of the landscape, the tourists’ preference ...
• Impacts of covid-19 on individuals’ behaviour & perception in public space: a case study of Colombo, Sri Lanka 

  Bopitiyegedara, N; Jayasinghe, AB; Mahanama, PKS [Conference-Full-text]

  SARS‐CoV‐2 has become a global pandemic while impacting most sectors including public space (PS). In the citizens-view, PS have become unfamiliar places with distant social interactions in a pandemic. This study aimed to ...
• Role of urban planning & design interventions in strengthening the sense of place of historic sites in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka 

  Subasingha, SMVU; Rathnayake, RMSR [Conference-Full-text]

  Urban planning or design interventions that alter the built environment or the current functions of the place in which they are implemented have the potential to change the meaning of those places, particularly for those ...
• Adoption of 3D printing technology in Sri Lanka's construction industry 

  Cooray, NKV; Coomasaru, P [Conference-Full-text]

  The construction industry does have a history of embracing new technologies more slowly than other sectors. 3D construction is a revolutionary technology that has recently identified as a possible technology with the ...
• Suitability of alternative dispute resolution methods based on risk factors to the Sri Lankan construction industry 

  Hapuarachchi, HNM; Udayangani, K [Conference-Full-text]

  Disputes in construction projects always used to resolve in litigation, where nowadays parties use new innovative dispute resolution methods known as Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR)s. Many ADR-related studies in the ...
• Impact of vernacular architecture elements on patient waiting experience in rural government hospitals in Sri Lanka 

  Rathnayake, SD; Gamage, WO [Conference-Full-text]

  The role of architecture in hospitals is a sensitive topic; the prominence given to the programmatic requirements has led to disregard of the in-between function of waiting identified as the user experience in the recovery ...
• Inclusive schools for children with autistic spectrum disorder: an appraisal on built environmental challenges of existing schools 

  Jayaneththi, DND; Rajapaksha, IGP [Conference-Full-text]

  Majority of the school-aged children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are excluded from education, globally. And those who are engaged in education, are being educated separately confronting social segregation. Education ...
• Applicability of green certification system for domestic construction projects in Sri Lanka 

  Perera, BLSH; Ranathunga, RAAS; Madhuwanthi, LPTP; Coomasaru, P [Conference-Full-text]

  Consistently, researchers have noted that 20 to 30 percent of damage to the environment can be attributable to residential construction. There are a plethora of green certification systems available for implementation ...
• Effective methods in collaborative procurement system for energy sector projects in Sri Lanka 

  Perera, PNR; Wijesinghe, T; Perera, BKC [Conference-Full-text]

  All governments are bound to provide better infrastructure services for their citizens. Due to numerous financial difficulties governments move towards Collaborative procurement methods to secure infrastructure projects ...
• Estimate the pass-by and diverted trip impact generated by a supermarket in Colombo, Sri Lanka 

  Pathiraja, ALAC; De Silva, PCP; Jayasinghe, AB [Conference-Full-text]

  A new supermarket development will produce more trips, adding to the existing traffic and eventually leading to congestion and increasing clashes on nearby roads. One of the primary lands uses in the Colombo area is the ...
• Street as a place: a study of sense of place in commercial streets of Jaffna, Sri Lanka 

  Kethusha, K; Sooriyagoda, KG [Conference-Full-text]

  Commercial streets are places that considered as heart of our cities that are mostly intertwined with people’s everyday routines facilitating many activities, movements, and social interactions. The previous studies have ...
• Examination of the spatio-temporal urban growth patterns using dmsp- ols night-time lights data: an experiment in urban area, Sri Lanka 

  Yapa, RDWS; Gunawardena, W [Conference-Full-text]

  Understanding the direction and pattern of the urbanization process is important in urban planning and management. It is important to examine the spatial patterns of urban areas earlier to facilitate the decision-making ...
• City as a system of systems; and evaluation of “urbanity” in post-pandemic space 

  Logapawan, J; Pathiraja, M [Conference-Full-text]

  The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent compartmentalization of cities have questioned the existing norms of urban living. In such context, it is important to explore a form of ‘urbanism’ that fluctuates ...
• Applicability of circular economy for the electronic waste minimization in Sri Lankan office buildings 

  Mafra, MTF; Gowsiga, M; Asmone, AS; Dilogini, RAA [Conference-Full-text]

  Electronic equipment is one of the world’s fastest-growing waste types. Office buildings can be identified as a major contributor to the electronic waste generation of any country, including Sri Lanka. Several electronic ...
• Evaluation of the impact of multiple factors, elements and neighborhood patterns on the spread of dengue and covid-19: special reference to Colombo 15. 

  Ranasinghe, RADM; Ranasinghe, TKGP [Conference-Full-text]

  During past decades, the mass movement of people from rural areas towards urban areas made cities vulnerable to environmental hazards, inequality, poverty, and communicable diseases identified as a huge threat. The spread ...
• The Role of biophilic design in hotel architecture: a case study of Heritance Kandalama, Sri Lanka 

  Ariyawansa, DN; Perera, NGR [Conference-Full-text]

  Humans have a natural affiliation with nature which can even be genetically traced back into history. Biophilia is the inherent human inclination to affiliate with nature, that even in the modern world, continues to be ...

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