Built Environment (BE) is immensely damaged due to the increased intensity of
disasters. Therefore, the BE professionals are expected to react effectively and
efficiently during both pre-disaster and post disaster phases. ...
Claims in road/expressway construction are contemplated by many project stakeholders to be
one of the most unpleasant and disruptive measures of a project. Claims in road/highway
construction projects in Sri Lanka are ...
Disputes within the construction industry seem to be very common. To resolve such disputes, the practice is to go for litigation. However, due to excessive time and cost incurred in litigation, nowadays parties use new ...
With the growing of the road construction sector, extension of time claims has been grown significantly due to the various reasons. Utility shifting is critical in road construction since it necessitates the relocation of ...
Disputes continue to exist in the construction industry for several decades and affect the
cost, time and quality of the projects. Worse still, it results in severe consequences such as
abandonment of projects and ...
The Design and Build Procurement method is one of the most frequently used procurement
methods in the present construction industry. It releases Employers from the design
responsibilities and transfers design and ...
Global progress of energy-related improvements is considerably behind the curve dueto the slow progress of existing initiatives. Hence, there is a pressing need foralternative approaches. Emerging energy culture research ...
Today's hostile business environment, economic uncertainties and external shocks
make construction companies vulnerable to business failures. In facing such
challenges, contractors' businesses should be with informed ...
The concept of Industrial Symbiosis (IS) has obtained world concern as a new
initiative for achieving collaborative benefits through exchange of resources between
industries including water. Even though, these initiatives ...
The construction industry is complex and involves several activities. The construction
industry and projects are linked with time, cost, and quality constraints to ensure
project performance. Although the application of ...
Housing is one of the basic needs of people who lived all over the communities of the world. In order to fulfil this basic requirement different types of dwelling types have been introduced in the world depending on the ...
Environmental risk factors are vital in highway projects and it has become a crucial
issue in Sri Lanka. The contractor is the main contracting party who suffers due to
those environmental risk factors. Thus, it is very ...
The construction industry is a dynamic and a complicated business. The most of construction experts suffer from stress in order to cope with the time, cost and quality expectations of both internal and external stakeholders. ...
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plays a vital role in any industry as it provides several advantages in many aspects. This research attempted to find out the impact of FDI on the construction industry in Sri Lanka. ...
Management Information systems (MIS) have been a dominant application in the era of computing due to the widespread commercial availability of computing technologies. This is the best information and communication technology ...
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are getting increasingly popular in Sri Lanka and
throughout the world due to the inherent benefits, they provide to corporate organizations in
dealing with global challenges ...
Contemporary cities and enormous skyscrapers have been constructed due to the increasing population in urban areas. Evacuation strategies and the time needed to evacuate from the buildings are the main concerns of governments, ...
Stakeholder management has become a very crucial management process in irrigation infrastructure projects. Out of all the stakeholders, external stakeholders’ influences are more significant and must be managed prudentially; ...
The construction industry is one of the major economic drivers of any country. Comparing to rural areas many construction projects are happened in urban areas. Urban construction projects usually have high risk processes ...
Construction industry being vulnerable for disputes due to its comprehensive and complex nature, the resolution of disputes become a prominent factor. Disputes have the potential to arise in any stage of a construction ...