Built Environment & Spacial Sciences
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Rethinking of the Adaptability in Mass Housing for Pandemic Situations
(2021)Pandemics spread due to poor housing conditions. Diseases have resulted in inducing the concept of mass housing, evident from housing projects initiated after the Great Plaque in London. Current pandemic, i.e., ... -
Contribution of Architecture on Juvenile Rehabilitation Process in Sri Lanka
(2021)The process of reintegrating juveniles to society from juvenile rehabilitation facilities is as important as the process of rehabilitation. If the rehabilitation process is not conducted properly it would rather be ... -
Use of Urban Pockets to Enhance Walkability in Office Neighbourhoods in Colombo Urban Context with Special Reference to Fort, Colombo
(2021)Urban pockets have been recognized as resourceful collective spaces for urban functions in a modern-day city. Also, urban design and planning of major developed cities incorporate the walkability concept in order ... -
Compact City as a Response to the New Normal: Designing Resilience to Encounter Pandemics
(2021)The Coronavirus is a pandemic that defined the greatest crisis of the modern world, and it is the most critical challenge that the world has faced since World War II. Considering the effect and the scale of the outbreak, ... -
Developing a Cost-Effective Web-Based Communication and Information Management System for Construction Projects
(2021)Construction projects face several problems due to the lack of well-organized communication and information management within construction sites. The traditional communication and information management system in the ... -
Study of Quantity Surveying Roles and Skills Requirement under Green Building Development in Sri Lanka
(2021)With the development of the construction industry, modern Quantity Surveyors diversify their roles as cost managers and perform multidisciplinary job practices at present. Green building is one of the recent trends ... -
Career Development of Young Construction Professionals in New Millennium: Application of Sun Tzu’s Art of War Principles
(2021)The construction industry in the new millennium has shown a variety of challenges for young professionals. It is recognized that early career experience can play a significant part in lifelong professional capability, ... -
Implementation of Collaborative Procurement Method to Sri Lankan Construction Industry
(2021)Construction procurement methods have developed for decades under four main categories to address different financial arrangements, different relationships between parties, different project delivery methods and to suit ... -
A GIS Based Approach for Identifying a Suitable Location for Residence in the Ratnapura Municipal Council Area
(2021)When considering Sri Lanka, with the developments in the country, the infrastructure of the urban city areas is being developed year by year. As a result of these conditions, people in rural villages are moving to ... -
An Analysis of Suitable Location for Establishing Telecommunication Tower at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Southern Campus
(2021)Wireless telecommunication is broadly utilized around the world and Sri Lanka, particularly due to increased use of mobile users, and the conversion of mobile phone into a primary essentiality of a person. High ... -
Mitigating the Effects of E-learning in Higher Education Sector in Sri Lanka during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2021)This study sets out to examine the efficacy of e-learning in the Sri Lankan higher education sector that was ignited by the emergency created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing a random sample of 350 undergraduates ... -
Addressing Barriers to Integrate Social Sustainability in Construction Industry
(2021)The social, ecological, and financial scopes of sustainability are all influenced considerably by construction operations. Regardless of the fact that there is significant literature on financial and ecological sust ... -
An Analysis of Professional Participation of Registered Licensed Surveyors in Land Partition
(2021)Statistics of land ownership in Sri Lanka shows that approximately 82% of land in the country is under state control while only 17.7% is privately owned, and as a tool of administration and management of private ... -
Study on Development and Implementation of Safety Inspection Drones with Machine Learning Algorithms to Improve Construction Safety in Sri Lanka
(2021)Most of the construction sites in Sri Lanka work under unsafe conditions due to limited resources. Due to these unsafe conditions, human lives are in danger at times. The construction industry holds a major position ... -
Perceptions of Civil Engineering Undergraduates on Using Learning Management System (LMS) and Zoom Platform for Online Design Studio Teaching
(2021)As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, ‘online teaching and learning’ became the only possible solution to continue the education programmes at universities. Though there are multiple solutions presented in the educational ... -
Utilization of Cocowood for Affordable Engineered Wood Flooring in Sri Lanka
(2021)Coconut wood or Cocowood has a long history of being utilized as a building material in Sri Lanka. Cocowood stem has three major parts from the inner core to outer skin such as; low-density wood, medium density wood ... -
Assessing the Impact of Urban Block Typologies on Solar and Photovoltaic Potential in the Tropical Urban City of Colombo, Sri Lanka
(2021)The increasing global energy crisis has brought about a shift towards the utilisation of renewable energy, particularly towards building-integrated photovoltaics. When considering the assessment of photovoltaics (PV) in ... -
Effectiveness of Online Architectural Design Teaching: Perspectives of Students and Teachers
(2021)Design teaching is an important process and the core of Architectural education. It reflects the theoretical knowledge as well as practical knowledge while enhancing the sensitivities and lateral thinking of the ... -
Contractor-related Cost Overrun Causes, Controlling Tools and Techniques: Study on Selected Building Construction Projects in Colombo District
(2021)Construction projects in Sri Lanka often fail completion within the specified time and cost allotted for the projects. Hence, cost overrun and delays are major problems that construction projects frequently experience. Many ... -
An Overview of Various Techniques and Approaches of Concurrent Delay Analysis in the Sri Lankan Construction Industry
(2021)Concurrent delay is a very complex and controversial topic in the construction industry. Analysis of the concurrent delays became challenging due to the absence of clear provisions in the standard form of contracts. ...
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