• A GIS based Approach for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping 

  Pussella, PGRNI; Li, Lin; Fernando, MHB; Munasinghe, DS; Karadana, CA (2016)

  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. ...

• Creative City Planning: Integration of Cultural Assets in Planning the Vibrant City 

  Munasinghe, Harsha (2016)

  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 ...

• Effect on physical activity among users of walking track under wetland conditions in sub urban area in Sri Lanka 

  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. ...

• Bamboo as a New Retrofitting Material for Existing Masonry Walls with Improving the Walls Aesthetic View 

  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 ...

• Implications of Using Salvaged Materials for Building Construction in Sri Lankan Context 

  Premarathna, Nuwan Harendra (2016)

  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 ...

• Towards Dispute Resolution in Construction Contracts in Sri Lanka: What is Quantity Surveyor’s role on Dispute Avoidance rather than Dispute Resolution? 

  Amaratunga, Ravi (2016)

  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 ...

• Manipulation of Thermal Mass with Natural Ventilation; Application for Residential Buildings in Tropics 

  RAJAPAKSHA, MALTHI (2016)

  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 Quantity Surveyor adopts the Information Technology to assist the Construction Delay Claims [A Case Study – Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) visualization of construction of Club House] 

  Amaratunga, Ravi; Fernando, WSS; Perera, BLSH (2016)

  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 ...

• Automatic water features recognition from Satellite images using an Artificial Neural Network 

  Kalu Arachchige, Manjula Chathuranga; Dammalage, Thilantha Lakmal (2016)

  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% ...

• Development of a mobile application on disaster emergency alertness targeting communities in Matara district, in Sri Lanka 

  Dinusha, KA; Gunasinghe, GP; Hapugoda, R P (2016)

  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 ...

• Mobile Based Solution for Harvest Selling System in Sri Lanka 

  Ekanayake, C; de S Sirisuriya, S.C.M. (2016)

  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 ...

• Annotation Based Build Process Automation for Cyber Foraging Frameworks 

  Vekneswaran, P; Dissanayake, NR (2016)

  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 ...

• A review on Risk Management in Sustainable Construction 

  Gunarathna, U (2016)

  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, ...

• EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: CLASS ROOM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 

  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 ...

• Studying the factors affect for the accuracy of reflectorless Total Station observations 

  Geethalankara, AMAR; Rupasinghe, AR; Niriella, NS.C (2016)

  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 ...

• Review of Location Based Delivery Management System 

  Tennakoon, WTMTP; Gunesekara, ADAI (2016)

  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 ...

• Internet of Everything: Unlock the Potential Fear of Sri Lankan Government Sectors 

  Kathriarachchi, RPS (2016)

  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 ...

• Transforming Government Processes; through the Utility Management System for Industrial Development Board, Sri Lanka 

  Shayalika, JKC; Arambawela, NCD; Wickramarathne, SHYS; Ranasinghe, SD; Wedasinghe, N (2016)

  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 ...

• Market Basket Analysis: A Profit Based Approach to Apriori Algorithm 

  Samaraweera, WJ; Waduge, CP; Meththananda, RGUI (2016)

  The field of data mining seeks to recognize the regularities, patterns and behaviours of large data collections. Association mining is used to discover elements that occur frequently within a dataset consisting of multiple ...

• Abstract concepts: A contemporary requirement for Rich Internet Applications engineering 

  Dissanayake, NR; Dias, GKA (2016)

  Rich Internet Applications are very advanced and complex systems, and for their development there are numerous tools, frameworks, libraries, techniques, and technologies are available. The underplaying concepts of the Rich ...

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