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  • An IoT-based electrical and electronic appliance management system for Sri Lankan residential buildings 
    Sandaru, SAD; Liyanage, DLCP; Anuradha, IGN; Kumarathunga, JU; Kalugala, C [Conference-Full-text]
    Sri Lankan household energy consumption was accounted for around 34% of national energy consumption in 2017, and residential applications were accounted for 36% of national energy waste in 2018. Therefore, reducing the ...
  • IOT-Enabled monitoring of historic buildings and surroundings : a conceptual design 
    Firdhous, MFM [Conference-Abstract]
    Historic buildings are considered an important asset for countries and societies as they reflect the cultural past as well as become a source of income for both the country as well as the people living in the area. UNESCO ...
  • Iot-enabled smart elephant detection system for combating human elephant conflict 
    Fazil, M; Firdhous, M [Conference-Full-text]
    Human elephant conflict has become one of major and serious problems for many countries in Asia and Africa. The conflict between humans and elephants have resulted in loss of human life and limbs as well as death of many ...
  • Iot-enhanced smart laser fence for reducing human elephant conflicts 
    Firdhous, MFM [Conference-Full-text]
    Human animal conflict is a serious problem in several countries in the Asian and African continents. The human animal conflict commonly results in the damage to properties and loss of human/animal life and limbs. The ...
  • IOT-powered environment aware traffic management : a conceptual framework 
    Firdhous, MFM; Sudantha, BH [Conference-Abstract]
    Vehicular traffic has increased across all over the world especially in urban areas. Many reasons including the reduction in the cost of vehicles, degradation of public transport services and increased wealth can be ...
  • Iot-powered sustainable dry zone agriculture: an experimental implementation 
    Firdhous, MFM; Sudantha, BH; Karunaratne, PM [Conference-Full-text]
    Dry zone agriculture plays an important role in the national economies of many countries. On the other hand dry zone agriculture suffers from many problems especially lack of water for producing the optimum yield it ...
  • IPD and BIM:making sense of chaos? 
    Rowlinson, S; Lu, W; Yong, KT; Zhang, D [Conference-Full-text]
    Why is BIM not working? Where in the world do we really have IPD (integrated project delivery)? The U.K. has failed to achieve its Level 2 BIM goals. Hong Kong is striving to implement true collaborative contracting with ...
  • iRoads: smartphone-based road condition monitoring 
    Abeywardana, HMA; Abeywickrama, UMJ; Amarasingha, PT; Kumarasinghe, RPD; Bandara, HMND; Pasindu, HR [Conference-Abstract]
    Measuring and monitoring road conditions are essential to ensure public and vehicle safety, prompt maintenance, as well as fuel and time savings. While developed countries use sophisticated devices installed on specialized ...
  • Irregular flat slabs designed according to structural membrane approach 
    Baskaran, K [Article-Abstract]
    In the construction industry, the need for flat slabs supported on columns in an irregular layout is rising. Design methods validated by experimental evidence for flat slabs supported on non-rectangular grid are, however, ...
  • Irrigation infrastructure management requirements to ensure water security for impoverished rural populations under climate change scenario 
    Wijesekera, NTS [Article-Abstract]
    Climate change studies have come to maturity with the 4th report of the Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change in 2007. Conclusions about temperature increases, rainfall variations, climate change relationships with ...
  • Irrigation reservoir performance : a case study of Lunugamvehera reservoir 
    Wijesekera, NTS [Article-Full-text]
    Lunugamwehera reservoir is a large water body with a storage capacity of 170,000 Act, constructed under the Kirindi Oya Irrigation and Settlement Project (Figure 1). The Kirindi Oya development project was commissioned ...
  • Is anaerobic digestion of municipal garbage to produce biogas economically feasible ? 
    Perera, SAS [Conference-Full-text]
    The problem of collecting, transporting and disposal of market and domestic garbage is probably the greatest problem confronted by many municipalities and local authorities. The dumping of garbage in solid waste dumps ...
  • IS CONSTRUCTION GETTING QUICKER 
    Ross, A; Norman, R; Manewa, A; Marsh, D [Conference-Full-text]
    Construction time performance has been a frequent topic of discussion in the literature and government reports in which the performance of the UK construction industry has been reviewed. It is evident that construction ...
  • is construction getting quicker? 
    Ross, A; Norman, R; Manewa, A; Marsh, D [Conference-Full-text]
    Construction time performance has been a frequent topic of discussion in the literature and government reports in which the performance of the UK construction industry has been reviewed. It is evident that construction ...
  • Is Course Correction Needed for Direction of Research in Concrete 
    Holey, S; Silva, A; Perera, HTP; Wijayakulatilaka, WGMA [Conference-Full-text]
    This paper is an endeavour to highlight importance of realizing potential of research in “value addition” or “making” process of concrete. Authors, based upon their experience as link of cement manufacturing and construction ...
  • Is course correction needed for direction of research in concrete 
    Holey, S; Silva, A; Perera, HTP; Wijayakulatilaka, WGMA [Conference-Full-text]
    This paper is an endeavour to highlight importance of realizing potential of research in "value addition' or "making" process of concrete. Authors, based upon their cement manufacturing and construction industry, presented ...
  • Is cues of contagious diseases in advertising a friend or foe? 
    Ranaweera, A; Wijekoon, A [Article-Full-text]
    We are all well aware of how the Covid-19 pandemic has caused devastating economic and social disruptions globally. The pandemic caused serious health, economic, social, business, travel, education, and workplace challenges ...
  • Is integrated project delivery sufficient to reduce adversarialism in the UK construction industry? 
    Aderibigbe, A; Umeokafor, N; Umar, T [Conference-Full-text]
    Adversarialism is an endemic feature of the construction industry, resulting in devasting effects on productivity, cost, performance and client satisfaction within the industry. This can be explained by various factors of ...
  • Is toughness a better metaphor than resilience? 
    Dias, WPS [Article-Abstract]
    Toughness is arguably a better metaphor than resilience to describe the characteristics of wider systems for which the term ‘resilience’ is currently employed. This argument is presented by describing the various features ...
  • Is ‘human rights’ the end or the means of sustainable urbanization? 
    Dharmawardhana, BC; Abeynayake, MD; Aashik, NFS [Conference-Full-text]
    Urbanization is one of the inventible phenomena in the 21st century. People migrate to urban areas due to social, cultural, environmental, political and economic reasons. Rapid and unplanned urbanization lead to huge ...