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Discourse Process and Discursive Practices in th
(2020)Abstract: The discourse on profession of quantity surveying exhibits a multi-dimensional role in the construction industry. The defined vital role entails the significance of mounting the scope in contrary to the ... -
Discourse Process and Discursive Practices in the Profession of Quantity Surveying in Sri Lanka
(2020-10)The discourse on profession of quantity surveying exhibits a multi-dimensional role in the construction industry. The defined vital role entails the significance of mounting the scope in contrary to the traditional ... -
Evaluation of Urban Compactness Indicators and Solar Potential in the Urban Environment
(2020-10)One viable solution for clean onsite energy production and utilisation is Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV). The available area for installation may not be sufficient to meet the building energy demand in high-rise ... -
Factors affecting contractor’s risk on cost overburden in Sri Lankan Construction Industry
(2020-10)Cost overrun is one of the major issue faced by the construction industry at present. The contractor’s cost overrun directly affects with the contractor’s profit margin which has become a major burden within the contractor’s ... -
Factors Influencing the Adoption of E-procurement for Public Sector Works in Sri Lanka: A Case Study Analysis.
(2020-10)Public sector institutes inherently suffer from the information asymmetries, extra time and cost penalties, corruption, transparency issues, anti-competition, and too much documentation with utmost human interventions ... -
A Geo-Physical Investigation into the Colombo Port Seabed using Sub Bottom Profiler
(2020-10)Traditionally, seabed layers were determined by using conventional mechanical methods like boreholing, which retrieved the strata at a single point at one time. Later it was developed to various acoustic remote ... -
Geospatial based Land suitability assessment for waste dumping A case study on Kesbewa DSD, Sri Lanka.
(2020-10)In the current context, waste dumping could be identified as the foremost and rising issue of Sri Lanka. Still, Sri Lanka has not followed a proper waste recycling system and as a result, the number of waste dumping ... -
GIS Mechanism For Terrain Trafficability
(2020-10)Geographic Information Systems(GIS) could be identified as a leading application mechanism that grows beyond in each and every aspect of the world. The GIS applications in decision making in the military field ... -
A GIS- Based Approach for 2D Noise Modeling using 2D City Model
(2020-10)Noise pollution of urban areas is one of serious problem. The local and urban authorities have to consider decision making processes for establishing residential, newly construction of hospitals, schools and maintaining ... -
Identification of the Challenges Imposed by COVID-19 Pandemic on Sri Lankan Construction Projects
(2020-10)Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a global pandemic which spreading all over the world which ruining lives of hundreds of people & effect negatively on business matters over the world. This can trigger different kinds of ... -
Impact of Colour on Worker Performance and Satisfaction in Sri Lankan Office Buildings with Reference to Bank Buildings in Gampaha District
(2020-10)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 ... -
Impact of Covid -19 Pandemic to Construction Industry in Sri Lanka
(2020-10)Covid -19 is a highly contagious global pandemic. Social distancing measures are the most successful tactic in combating the diseases. Due to the disease itself and local and global pandemic combating measures, ... -
The Impact of Living in High-rises for the Cognitive Development of Early Childhood in Sri Lanka
(2020-10)High-rise buildings have become a popular strategy for accommodating population growth in urban areas in Sri Lanka. Each and every building has different characters and personalities that offer different experiences ... -
Impact of Workforce Diversity on Employee Performance in Sri Lankan Construction Industry
(2020-10)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 ... -
Livability of Vertical Apartments: A Study of the Relationship between Environmental Psychological Satisfaction and Height of Living with Special Reference to Low Income Apartments
(2020-10)This study investigates the liveability of low income vertical apartments in Colombo, by means of finding the relationship between environmental psychological satisfaction and height of living. The main objective of ... -
Mapping & Classifying Paddy Fields Applying Machine Learning Algorithms with Multi-temporal Sentinel-1A in Ampara district
(2020-10)In Sri Lanka, Seasonal paddy field area mapping is still doing based on the traditional methods with poor technologies. Therefore this research focuses on the machine approach of mapping paddy fields area accurately ... -
Optimization of Conventional Land Survey Techniques Using Modern Technology
(2020-10)As far as a land surveying project is being considered, the knowledge about the accuracy, precision, time consumption and the cost efficiency are factors that must be equally taken into consideration before conducting ... -
Pedestrian Movement Tracking and Tracing in Public Space
(2020)Abstract: Population increase in the Urban areas made crowd management a hot topic today. Pedestrian decision making and movement patterns are critical in a variety of application domains. Mass event planning, ... -
Principle factors which affect to the proper functioning of urban public gathering spaces with special reference to recreational parks in Colombo city
(2020-10)Rapid urbanization and change of lifestyles require more public open spaces in cities to fulfill different socio, economic and environmental needs of the city. The urban park is a breathing space in a highly dense urban ... -
Reconsidering Shophouse Architecture for Contemporary Times
(2020-10)The shophouses were the elegant buildings that lined along the Sri Lankan streets from the past. The very fact that the shophouses and their proportions contribute to the growth of the evolution of tropical architecture ...