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A Study on site records maintained by the construction contractors

Kumara, GWS [Thesis-Full-text]

The recognized goal of maintaining site records is to provide the right information to the right person at the right time at the lowest possible cost. This goal can only be successfully achieved and sustained through ...

Accident analysis beyond descriptive statistics

Devasurendra, KW [Thesis-Full-text]

Worldwide, more than 1.2 million people die annually from road accidents and now it is the 8th leading cause of death in the world. In the context of Sri Lanka, road traffic injury is also a leading cause of mortality and ...

Analysis of transmission phase out options in water supply projects

Perera, ULDND [Thesis-Abstract]

A study on "Analysis of transmission phase out options in water projects" was carried out to analyze possible cost savings to meet any the financial constraints of the project and also to utilize available funds for the ...

Application of mathematical modelling for predicting coastline evolution

Fernando, MSL [Thesis-Abstract]

Increased river sand mining in the west of Sri Lanka has led to coastal erosion over the last few decades. Erosion has been particularly severe along the coast north of the Maha Oya. The CRMP project, which included ...

Assessment of operating speeds of rehabilitated rural roads with asphalt surfacing

Wijeratne, DDS [Thesis-Full-text]

In Sri Lanka, rural roads are not specifically designed on technical requirements. Most of the rural roads (C and D classes) have historical backgrounds as being tracks and trails coming even beyond the colonial times. ...

Assessment of the Capacities of Community Based Organizations for Sustainable Management of Small Town Water Supply Scheme

Ranasinghe, KSK [Thesis-Abstract]

Poor water supply & sanitation services continue to be critical problems in rural areas despite considerable effort to improve and expand coverage. Mounting evidence indicates that centrally managed schemes, are difficult ...

Attitude of affected households towards the mode of compensation and possible issues due to land acquisition for expressway projects in Sri Lanka

Dharmawardhana, HMT [Thesis-Full-text]

Road and highway projects are intended to either build new roads or widen or improve existing ones. Opening up a corridor for a new road requires more space resulting land acquisition and the resultant negative impacts ...

Causes and effects of delay in completion of government funded building construction projects in Sri Lanka : with special reference to the projects based in Western Province

Perera, GHNN [Thesis-Full-text]

The main purpose of this study is to identify the causes of delay in completion of government funded building construction projects in Sri Lanka; with special reference to the projects based in the Western province as well ...

Comparison of some techniques for design flood estimation

Batuwitage, LP [Thesis-Abstract]

Sri Lanka, a country with abundant water resources, has a predominantly agriculture oriented economy. Hence, hydrological development plays an important role, not only in the vast irrigation development efforts, but also ...

Computer aider cost modelling at briefng stagelinked to smm

Dissanayake, A [Thesis-Abstract]

Involvement of the cost advisers -in the early stage of the building design process (briefing stage) for the forecasting of probable cost of projects is often minimal. The traditional pre tender estimating techniques such ...

Conjunctive use of surface and groundwater to improve food productivity in a restricted area

Sivakumar, SS [Thesis-Abstract]

This thesis presents alternate policy decisions based on technical strategies to operate minor and medium irrigation schemes with integrated conjunctive use of surface and groundwater to improve groundwater systems in a ...

Critical evaluation on achieving total implementation of ERP in Manufacturing firms

Wewalage, H [Thesis-Full-text]

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system has been one of the most popular business management systems, providing benefits of real-time capabilities and seamless communication for business in large organizations. However, ...

Design/strengthening of reinforced concrete pier heads

Wickramasinghe, WR [Thesis-Abstract]

In a developing country like Sri Lanka, it is very important to develop infrastructure to facilitate investments. In this context special emphasis should be given to the road development sector. Therefore highway projects ...

Developing a natural acoustic barrier for urban areas

Senanayake, MAD [Thesis-Full-text]

Increasing noise pollution has severally effected the urban areas where noise generated by traffic is considered as the major noise polluter. As a solution to the noise problem using noise barriers is an approach proven ...

Development of a fare structure for the three wheelers

Nishantha, KM [Thesis-Full-text]

Three wheelers have a significant contribution towards the road transportation as a popular para-transit mode in the country. Though three wheeler taxi provides valuable services, it is not appreciated at all. Only negative ...

Development of a rainfall runoff model for Kalu ganga basin of Sri Lanka using HEC-HMS model

Jayadeera, PM [Thesis-Full-text]

Water resources management and flood management in a watershed needs identification of the runoff hydrographs and their relationship with the watershed parameters. Sri Lankan Engineering guidelines or literature in Sri ...

Development of a rating system to rank hazardous locations on national highways

Kulasegarampillai, T [Thesis-Full-text]

In highway safety plan, identification of hazardous locations on highways is one of the most important factors. In this study, the geometry of road is considered to identify the hazardous locations with the concern of ...

Development of an analytical model to studywave motion to through porough porous vertical to coastalstructures

Samarasekara, MMPD [Thesis-Abstract]

This study is concerned with the development of an analytical model to predict wave reflection and transmission characteristics of porous, vertical coastal structures. Because of the complexity of the problem the study was ...

Development of nominal mixes suitable for small construction sites in Sri Lanka

Sugathadasa, PTRS [Thesis-Full-text]

Both strength and durability of concrete are now considered as significant issues for concrete structures. In BS 8110: Part 1: 1985, the improved durability of concrete is achieved by using mixes with higher strength such ...

Development of rule based expert system for design guidelines of domestic buildings

Premasiri, KW [Thesis-Abstract]

Use of expert systems for Engineering applications is still in very primitive stages in Sri Lanka. However it is being used satisfactorily in many developed countries over several areas of the Engineering applications. In ...

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