Work presented here is a part of a comprehensive study which aimed at calculating the walkability levels of streets. The walkability levels are to be calculated based on five walking needs which have been identified in ...

Natural or man made disasters cause serious negative impacts on life, property, livelihood and industries often resulting in permanent changes to societies and environments. In disasters, creation of waste due to damaged ...

Rekawa Lagoon is a chocked and shallow coastal water body located in the southern coast of Sri Lanka. It is relatively unusual in that the major freshwater input, Kirama-oya river connects through the constricted channel ...

Continued progress in water resources development in the future will depend upon the utilization of the existing irrigation potential. An irrigation tank is a small reservoir to catch and store water during rainy season and ...

A sludge blanket clarifier is a treatment unit combining flocculation and upward flow sedimentation, which is more efficient compared to the conventional sedimentation tank. It has the ability to treat water at a faster ...

In recent years, we have seen an accelerated development of mobile devices in terms of hardware capabilities, navigation techniques and physical design. Today users are gradually shifting towards choosing a smart mobile ...

What has the mining industry done for underground civil construction and what is the civil construction industry doing in return? The first answer to this question is easy – the mining industry has trained and educated ...

The paper mainly discusses femininity in ‘Sari’ and ‘Dress’. The aims of the paper are identify most feminine attire for women among the ‘Sari’ and the ‘Evening Dress’ and define the facts of feeling, being feminine after ...

This paper refers to historic development of wind engineering in Sri Lanka. The tropical cyclones that passed through the island during the last three decades and damages caused by them as well as other severe wind ...

In deploying a large scale wind power plant, there are several aspects that have to be assessed. Among them the initial site screening for wind power plants, wind data assessment and proper selection of wind turbines are ...