Sri Lankan construction projects suffer from frequent conflicts between the design team professionals during the pre-contract stage of the projects as it claims a high diversity of multidisciplinary involvement. These ...
Claim is fundamentally a term for demand for additional compensation in relation to alteration in the contract or affirmation of right to property or money, concerning time and cost. If claims are not clearly resolved the ...
The three decade long major internal displacement in the Northern and Eastern Provinces in Sri Lanka caused by conflict came to an end in 2009. This has led to a massive housing reconstruction project drive to recover the ...
Real estate industry has shown significant boost in Sri Lanka since last few decades. Among that, residential real estate has emerged as most sensitive segment. Urbanization and land shortage increase with the time and ...
This study mainly based on the Occupational Health and Safety related issues that are
faced by the contractor workers. Based on the several business factors, most of the
companies are now moving towards deploying workers ...
Lean implementation has embarked on a positive trend in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the construction industry. Lean practices ensure yielding a higher value for construction processes at a lower cost. However, ...
Complexity of construction industry makes it inevitable to avoid disputes among project team
members. Diversified nature of team members is identified as a main source of disputes which
impose negativity to projects. ...
Roads Authorities in Sri Lanka are obliged to pay all costs associated with relocation and betterment works required/requested by utility service providers through the funds allocated for their initiated projects. As a ...
The success or failure of dispute resolution depends comprehensively on implementing a mechanism to resolve the particular dispute while having a sound understanding of the ideologies and features of each dispute resolution ...
Construction is one of the major economic activities where physical process of completing a building or infrastructure include the steps of planning, designing, and funding. Presence of disputes in construction industry ...
Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) has history of applying Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in public infrastructure development projects. All the construction projects are prone to disputes, however, the projects procured ...
International arbitration is one of the most popular dispute resolution methods in the commercial world, which provides an opportunity to understand impact of globalization on the international practice of commercial law. ...
The development of the socio-economic growth of a country is greatly impacted by the local construction industry. Compared to private sector investments in construction such as apartments, luxury hotels, shopping complex, ...
Construction projects are more and more complex, involving in complicated contractual procedures. Complex nature can lead to construction disputes. Contract disputes are unavoidable and Ad-hoc site instruction is one of ...
Currently drinking water supply has become very prominent subject in the country as it becoming rare as the human activities has been amplified. Consummate organization in Sri Lanka, which supplying the pipe born drinking ...
The property development sector is an indicator of the economy and it is now becoming one of the most dynamic fields. Consequently the property development sector has offered wise venture open doors for the financial ...
Recently, use of integrated procurement systems became popular among private and public sector projects. As a result, ‘Design and Build’ (D&B) method has been increasingly adopted in Sri Lanka’s construction industry during ...
BIM is identified as a recently introduced technology which delivers various advantages to the construction industry. Despite of the available advantages of BIM adoption, many developing countries still find this valuable ...
Condominiums have become the most predominant and popular form of residential development and identified as an ideal solution to the ever increasing housing demand in Sri lanka. However, latent defects are considered as ...
Increasing population and building density in cities, have left numerous risks in
vertical developments. As a result of the competing requirements, limitations in fire
safety could be observed among many super high-rise ...