https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/3879 2026-04-06T11:38:56Z https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/3290 Auto-generate Landmine Path, Digitize and Visualize the Data for the Sri Lankan Context Nadeesha, DMIM; Meththananda, RGUI; Vandebona, R Landmines could be identified as affordable and effective defensive weapon, but it has many complexities. Human deaths and injuries, agricultural land degradation, destruction to infrastructure, environmental destruction, economic cost for demining humanitarian aid and etc. Those complexities cause due to the unconventional landmine fields which could be find it difficult to demine. To avoid that, landmines had to be laid according to universally accepted methods in a standard pattern. As per the International agreements, Sri Lankan security forces also follow the standards in warfare. But their data recording mechanism is manual and not efficient.The objective of this study is to introduce a new system to record positions of landmine data in digital format. The design of this research was accomplished in three stages, identification of current practice of data recording, develop the computer program to generate locations of landmines and data visualization and analysis using the result of the computer program. Therefore, through reviewing existing mechanism, lapses of existing system could be identified. By developing a computer program we could be able to auto-generate locations of each landmine on a landmine pattern by two initial inputs. Matlab has been used to develop the program which is a very powerful platform. Qgis is a highly demanded spatial data manipulating system, which is utilized in the visualization and analysis of data. The proposed system will be more convenient, efficient, effective, and accurate system that will avoid the malpractices of recording landmines. 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/3289 Impact of Workforce Diversity on Employee Performance in Sri Lankan Construction Industry Dahanayake, WE Workforce diversity provides heterogeneity to a workforce thereby making it a strategic capability to provide competitive advantage to organizations. Effective management of diverse human resource in the right manner can attract profitability to organizations as human diversity enhances the flow of novelty, creativity and innovation. This research study aims to investigate employee performance in construction industry in Southern and Western provinces of Sri Lanka. Out of numerous workforce diversity factors, age, educational background, work experience and attitudes were selected as the independent variables for the study. When conducting the research,120 questionnaires were distributed among employees engaged in the construction industry to collect data through simple random sampling technique. The results indicated that there’s a positive impact of diversity in terms of age, educational background, attitudes and work experiences on employee performance. The outcome of this study would benefit organizations in providing potential considerations to the management and workforce from different perspectives which would enable the distinguishing of dimensions of workforce diversity variables to further improve employee work performance. 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/3288 Impact of Colour on Worker Performance and Satisfaction in Sri Lankan Office Buildings with Reference to Bank Buildings in Gampaha District Bulugahamulla, BPPN; Premarathne, KDHJ; Hettiarachchi, AA; Nawaratne, NMRAT Colours helps to generate spatial qualities in architecture and affect the psychological and physiological condition of the user. Colours can influence on wellbeing and provide impact on human behaviour. Careful use of colours can create harmonious spaces and change the behaviour of the users positively. colour schemes play important role in office working environments. Office is a place where, employees spend their majority of time. Banks are a specific office type which deals with money. office environment affects directly, in shaping the day of a person, his moods, performance and satisfaction. Main objective of this study is to enhance the awareness of designers and facility managers in the banks on the importance of colour schemes to improve bank employee’s performance and satisfaction. Three Sri Lankan office buildings with reference to banks in Gampaha district selected and see how colours have been supportive or less conducive towards, performance and satisfaction and to find out most important colour scheme for the increase performance and satisfaction. Three different bank environments in Gampaha District were selected for this study.45, were employed as participants. Sample size was selected considering the People who facing directly to the selected colours while working. Primary data were collected using researcher made questionnaire regarding the factors related to respondent’s (A) basic information, (B)comfortability regarding applied colour scheme and its effect on the performance (C) comfortability regarding existing physical environmental factors, (D)colour scheme preferences for the working environment. (E) job satisfaction. Data were analysed descriptively. 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/3286 Contribution of Built Environment on Inclusive Urban Design: with Special Reference to Selected Transport Related Public Spaces in Galle, Sri Lanka Kumara, GPNN; Sanjunee, SMM; Premarathna, MLNH Designing architectural spaces is thought to contribute to social inclusion, eventually satisfying all components of the society. The building and space characteristics have a powerful impact on the quality on peoples ‘lives. It's all about the choices the planners, developers or architects make. And those choices can either encourage or restrict people's well-being. With parallel technological innovations to these built environment and sociological research, many characteristics have been added to the built environment that empowers availability, security and feeling of belonging. This scenario is also apparent in developing nations as the bulk of the population belongs to the poor and low-income groups. Furthermore, the suggestions for growth are always subject to other factors such as policy, financial factors and profit. With regard to all these problems, there have been numerous summits and conferences on maintaining social inclusion, achieving general sustainability. Among them, the Sustainable Development Goals 11 is one of the most prominent in the process of transforming towns into more livable urban buildings and also highlights social inclusiveness as a major need. The whole research aims to promote social inclusion and defeat the present exclusivity. Social exclusivity leads to arise in social inequity, which is today's primary social problem. In overcrowded government areas such as the Galle bus stand and the Galle railway station, these problems are very evident. The objectives of this study are to, identifying the probability of exclusive design to create social inequality, understanding and defining the Social Inclusion as a concept, and then identify the potentials of inclusive design on overcoming social issues. 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z