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  • 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 cement manufacturing and construction industry, presented ...
  • 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 ‘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 ...
  • Ises: intelligent semantic search framework 
    Jayarathne, M; Fernando, D; Arachchi, CD; Haththotuwa, I; Perera, S; Weerakoon, S
    With vast amounts of data being produced, present world is overwhelmed with information and searching for appropriate content has turned out to be harder than ever before. Semantics, which typically focuses on the relationship ...
  • Isolation and characterization of microcrystalline cellulose from rice straw 
    Wathsala, KPT; Weerakkody, KM; Weragoda, VSC [Conference-Full-text]
    This research work is based on process optimization of extraction of microcrystalline cellulose in Sri Lankan facilities. The extraction consists of two main steps that are isolating chemically purified cellulose from rice ...
  • Issues and remedial measures in river sand mining - a case study related to artisanal river sand mining in Mahaweli River in Mahiyangana area, Sri Lanka 
    Ekanayake, EMKB; Rupawansha, WKAS [Conference-Full-text]
    The demand for river sand for construction purposes has increased significantly in Sri Lanka in recent years, particularly due to the tsunami disaster that occurred in Dece: eer 2004 and post war period . 'U r 2009. This ...
  • Issues caused by employment of migrant workers in the Sri Lankan construction industry 
    Nawarathna, WGHK; Abeynayake, MDTE; Illeperuma, IE [Conference-Full-text]
    Construction is one of the industries with a very high growth rate in Sri Lanka. With this growth, recent decades have seen a considerable rise in the number of migrant workers because of globalisation, wars, conflicts, ...
  • Issues in small sector housing construction in Sri Lanka : case of services installation 
    Roshan, AGR; Waidyasekara, KGAS [Conference-Abstract]
    Building a house is a life time venture and a dream of many individuals. However, constructing a house is a complicated process which involves interpreting various ideas and collection of number of people’s effort. In ...
  • Issues in submission and certification of variations 
    Karunathilake, TM; Seneviratne, LDIP; Weththasinghe, K [Conference-Full-text]
    The valuation of variation is a critical aspect in the post contract stage. The Contractor has to carry out the works according to issued variation order or on the instructions given by the Engineer even without having ...
  • Issues in sustainable water management of irrigation systems in Sri Lanka 
    Sirimewan, DC; Manjula, NHC; Samaraweera, A; Mendis, APKD [Conference-Full-text]
    As the largest consumer of water, the irrigation sector has to play a critical role in managing water resources. Nevertheless, the current water management practices of irrigation are not achieving the benefits of ...
  • Istanbul version 2.0: the struggle between modernisation and historical heritage the case of Sulukule 
    Pak, EÖ; Yilmaz, E [Conference-Abstract]
    Istanbul has become a construction site by the beginning of 1990s following a dramatic change in policies on housing and urbanization policies. While the new middle class was invading city centre, urban poor was evicted ...
  • It based evacuation methodology for a coastal railway system under a tsunami warning 
    Sirisoma, RMNT; Wirasinghe, SC [Conference-Abstract]
    Natural disasters have been known to humans ever since the formation of early civilizations. However, as increased human interventions contribute to the destabilization of the natural balance of environmental processes, ...
  • It capabilities on supply chain performance: mediating role of supply chain agility 
    Pushpasiri, GTTK [Conference-Full-text]
    The purpose of this paper is to investigate the IT capabilities affecting supply chain performance, explore the relationship among those identified capabilities to supply chain performance and, explore the mediating factors ...
  • It enabled services in the Sri Lankan healthcare sector 
    Pereira, N; Jayasena, S [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    Process Automation concentrates on automating structured processes of an organization in order to achieve excellent service delivery by enabling the employees to pay more attention to semi structured or unstructured ...
  • Itconnect : real-time personalized job posting platform for it professionals 
    Karunanayake, KRDSK; Chandrawansa, KTM; Gunatilleke, ICT; Menuranga, KYDB; Gawesha, A; Manathunga, K [Conference-Full-text]
    This study offers an innovative job platform created especially for IT professionals in Sri Lanka to address pressing issues in the IT job market. The platform focuses on four main challenges: identifying fake job ...
  • Ivr flow designer and simulator 
    De Jonk, AY; Jayasinghe, HMSC; Mujahid, MTM; Silva, WCM; Perera, I; Gajayake, W [Conference-Full-text]
    Interactive Voice Response (IVR) flow in call centre applications is an important component. IVR handles customers automatically, for instance when we call customer service providers an automatic answer is given to us ...
  • Java-Sinhala localization to improve computer literacy in Sri Lanka 
    Semage, BL; Dissanayake, D; Shermila, SM; Heenatigala, D; Zameer, MFM; Dias, G [Conference-Abstract]
    Computer users all over the world have come to expect their software to “talk” to them in their own language. In order to fulfill this requirement for different users across the globe, internationalization & localization ...