A methodology for landslide susceptibility mapping using an integrated GIS approach is presented under this study. Imbulpe Divisional Secretariat Division in Ratnapura district of Sri Lanka was selected as the study area. ...
Cultural-planning has been a popular topic among urban planners as a strategy to regenerate city centres. Helsinki started adapting the concept of creative-city, a prodigy of cultural- planning, after being named the ...
Hirimuthugoda, L K; Karunapema, Palitha; Madarasinghe, H P; Gayantha, DWK(2016)
Planned environment and Communities can strongly enhance opportunities for people to improve their levels of physical activity (PA). Peaceful area for physical activity nevertheless offer benefits to mind and body both. ...
Pushpakumara, BHJ; Mendis, WS Wasundara; De Silva, Sudhira(2016)
Sri Lankan architecture is mainly based on masonry since ancient time. Among different types of masonry, Un-Reinforced Masonry (URM) construction has possessed the local culture of Sri Lanka especially in home/ residential ...
As the biggest contributor for global environmental concerns construction industry has under gone through many transformations in the recent pass. During last quarter of the millennium principles for building design has ...
This article considers the Quantity Surveyor?s (QS) role from inception to close-out of the final account by achieving holistic approach on commercial, contractual and contract administrative advice from inception to ...
This paper investigates the integration of thermal mass with natural ventilation for passive climate modification in residential buildings in tropics. Compact house forms found in historic world heritage site, Galle Fort, ...
The world phenomena is that most of construction project will encounter some form of delay which cause various and complexity of reasons during the process. Generally, the delay are entitled to claim an additional money ...
Water body is a significant natural object and 70% of total Earth is covered with water. Out of which approx. 68% is saline water and is part of many water resources such as glaciers, oceans, sea, ponds etc. and only 2% ...
Sri Lanka experienced different disaster events and millions of people were affected due to these events in the past. It also lacks an efficient emergency management system that will help in times of need. Proper disaster ...
Paddy cultivating is one of the major sectors in Sri Lankan agriculture platform. Many farmers engaged in this field facing number of difficulties during phase of selling their harvest due to lack of store facilities and ...
Cyber Foraging is a technique introduced to utilize the computing resources in the vicinity to improve the performance and the standby of the portable mobile devices. There have been various attempts to enable Cyber Foraging ...
Construction industry is highly risk prone, with complex and dynamic project environments creating an atmosphere of high uncertainty and risk. Meantime, sustainable construction aims to meet present day needs for building, ...
WebSocket protocol has become a sound technology in software industry for real-time web application development, since it provides bidirectional, full-duplex communication between client and server over a single connection. ...
Solar energy is available in abundance on the island of Sri Lanka. The consumption of non-renewable energy resources has significantly increased in recent years, rapidly approaching the point of exhaustion. Moreover, the ...
Chandrasiri, K .C; Katthriarachchi, R.P.S; Wanniarachchi, A(2016)
Evolution of the technologies has made the information technology and the computers essential part of life of the human beings. So in modern world the Uses of information technology have expanded from ordinary simple ...
It is important to study the reliability and accuracy of modern survey instruments before using them for a specific task like engineering work or change detection studies. Reflectorless total stations are widely used in ...
An efficient location based delivery management system is occupied with Global Positioning System (GPS) and Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD). The current locations and status of the vehicle can be determined ...
The internet has evolved in ways that we could never have imagined. The internet now provides the facilities connecting things and making our lives easier than ever before. The Internet of everything (IoE) is an immense ...
Rent and Water Bill management system is a successful attempt taken in order to reduce the recognized problems and increase the effectiveness in organizational rent and water bill calculation and maintenance. The currently ...