Improvements of rural roads are active socio-economic passageways to a high quality of life for most of the Srilankan people living in rural areas. The fund allocated for low volume road project is limited, thus it is ...

The Construction industry is one of the largest industries in Sri Lanka. The skilled labor shortage is one of the main challenges that the industry is suffering. Although this is an important area of study, only a few ...

Soil as a building material has been used in different forms which include mud, adobe, rammed earth and bricks. Also, Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks (CSEBs), a form of soil blocks with different additives, including ...

The key lateral loads acting on a freestanding telecommunication/broadcasting tower are due to wind effects though occasionally seismic forces also can act. Though earthquake design guidelines are well covered directly or ...

Land use and transportation have a significant impact on each other, therefore planers, engineers, decision makers and scholars have researched on the interaction between land use and transportation over the past few ...

Municipal solid waste (MSW) is defined as solid waste generated from community, commercial and agricultural operations and it includes wastes from households, offices, stores, industries and other non-manufacturing activities. ...

Transport demand models assess impacts of transport policies and transport infrastructure. In recent times transport modellers have been moving towards disaggregate activity based models from widely used aggregate trip/tour ...

Applicability of concrete filled steel tubes (CFST) for compression members in truss type steel light vehicular bridges is studied in this research as an economical solution for the lack of light vehicular bridges in Sri ...

The energy used to maintain the thermal comfort of building greatly contributes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global warming. This study developed a sustainable cost-effective rice husk ash (RHA) based mortar for ...

Synthetic fiber blended textile (polyester spandex) offcuts generated from apparel industry is considered as a waste; currently it is incinerated as fuel in the cement manufacturing process and remainder ends up in illegal ...