De Silva, MNK; Sandanayake, YG[Conference-Abstract]
The Sri Lankan energy supply system faces several major strategic challenges due to high annual electricity demand growth rate and hence it is required to double the electricity generation capacity in every ten years. ...
De Silva, MNK; Sandanayake, YG[Conference-Full-text]
The Sri Lankan energy supply system faces several major strategic challenges due to high annual
electricity demand growth rate and hence it is required to double the electricity generation capacity in
every ten years. ...
The role of thermo-physical and geometrical characteristics of a building envelope that plays in the air-conditioning load of the commercial sector is highlighted. A standard methodology of quantifying a performance index ...
The role of thermo-physical and geometrical characteristics of a building envelope that plays in the air-conditioning load of the commercial sector is highlighted. A standard methodology of quantifying a performance index ...
Over three thousand people die annually on the roads of Sri Lanka due to traffic crashes. This
is a massive socio and economic problem faced by the country. Road crashes globally cause
more than 1.3 million fatalities ...
Building Information Modeling (BIM) has received widespread attention in the management of built environment with the potential to change the traditional construction practices. BIM promotes an integrated project delivery ...
The challenge in coordination of Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) systems is a common problem
peculiar to the MEP industry. Although the traditional Two-Dimensional Computer Aided Design (2D
CAD) has been used ...
Sustainability has been an often mentioned goal of businesses, non-profit organizations and governments in the past decade, yet measuring the degree to which an organization is being sustainable or pursuing sustainable ...
Sustainability has been an often mentioned goal of businesses, non-profit organizations and governments in the past decade, yet measuring the degree to which an organization is being sustainable or pursuing sustainable ...
Jayarathna, HMMU; Francis, M; Liyanawatta, TN[Conference-Full-text]
Due to the complicated nature of building projects and the participation of several participants, disputes are inescapable in the building projects. The disadvantages of the Dispute Resolution Mechanisms (DRM) utilized in ...
Productivity is a critical performance indicator of the construction industry, and thus warrants effective and efficient construction productivity measurement (CPM). Building information modelling (BIM), a digital ...
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is relatively a new buzzword in the Construction Industry;
however BIM is not yet practiced in Sri Lankan construction industry and not many in the industry
know about it. BIM is now ...
Real-world implementations of BIM can serve as use cases to demonstrate BIM implementation strategy
in practice. This paper presents the findings from a case study of BIM implementation on a housing project in the
Netherlands. ...
Building prediction models with the right balance between performance and interpretability is currently a great challenge in machine learning. A large number of recent studies have focused on either building intrinsically ...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contribution of building management system (BMS) towards a sustainable built environment.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based on the findings of a ...
From Stone Age to Modem Age humans have changed their surrounding environment
to satisfy their comfort condition needs. People who lived in the tropical regions were
trying to merge with their surrounding environment ...
All over the world, sustainability has been given immense attention, thus novel stateof-the-art
materials and building systems are emerging as alternatives. With those
different alternatives, comparison and the selection ...
Top-down approach used to build housing for the Tsunami victims in Sri Lanka evolved around the number of houses destroyed. The selection of land and the number of units to be built were donor-biased decisions. This ...
Tsunami struck Sri Lanka on December 26th 2004. This has been the worst natural disaster in
island’s history. Within hours the unprecedented destruction of quick snuffed around 40,000
lives, over 80,000 houses, and ...