With ever increasing land prices, design and construction of high-rise buildings are becoming very common. There is a trend among design Engineers to resort to 3D Finite Element Analysis (FEA) during the design of such ...

This paper mainly discusses the deterioration of concrete due to temperature rise in concrete as a result of heat of hydration of cement. When concrete is subjected to high temperature at early age, many physical and ...

The purpose of this research is to study and explore the importance of hospitals in natural disaster events and to identify the impacts on the hospitals in natural disaster events. A disaster is an unforeseen event, which ...

The following research paper was published from the above-mentioned title " Sri Lankan public hospital space utilization where to next"

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. The dilemma of how to lead a company is spread throughout every industry and the dilemma has intensified due to the disruption caused by industry 4.0 which ...

The buildings, where people live, work, and protect people from nature's extremes, yet they also affect human health and environment in countless ways. The increasing consensus on climate change has resulted in escalating ...

While most of industries in Industrial Zones are connected to the centralized wastewater treatment plants, a large number of scattered industries and business facilities are served by on-site (decentralized) wastewater ...

Construction projects are always expected to create a balance between cost, time and quality. It is possible to have high quality and low cost, but at the expense of time, and conversely to have high quality and a fast ...

Abstract Buildings and architectural spaces are built for occupant comfort. Thus tropical climatic condition is the worst climate to achieve the occupant comfort. Tropics are favourable for bio receptive activities such ...