How smart the city of Colombo in Sri Lanka: analysis using modern buildings

Abstract

“Smart” building is a fast-growing concept around the world which has been risen during last few decades. It reduces the life cycle cost of the building with an optimal combination of comfort and energy along with many other benefits. This concept has been largely adapted in developed countries, but yet to achieve many improvements in this field in developing countries. Smartness has many dimensions such as technology, economy, user interaction and adaptability that enable an automated enterprise within a built environment. Since this is still at the adolescent stage in developing countries, the efficiency of buildings by being smart in the built environment are not well achieved. This paper presents a comprehensive smartness scoring model that designed to measure the level of smartness. Eleven main criteria and 41 variables were considered to model the smartness. Further the model is applied in sixteen modern buildings Sri Lanka. Results revealed that average smartness is 42%. This indicates that the country needs many improvements to achieve level of the best of the smartness.