Successful accomplishment of a project requires effective management of its performance. The performance of the most construction projects is tracked utilizing planned cost vs. actual cost measures only. Earned Value ...

Distinctive nature of the problems a city holds, baptise a “smart city”, which is a term, at the same time, is blamed for being befogged. Although defining the term “a smart city” is worth taking a risk, the maturity of ...

Value management is a practice of generating innovate alternative ideas to improve the value of a project where the goals are to achieve a more efficient design, identify alternative methods of constructions, identify ...

The rapid unplanned urbanization of metropolitan areas has manifested number of challenges in terms of infrastructure, energy consumption, health care, waste management and resilience. Thus, forming “liveable” city for ...

Value is an ideational thought by which a worth of a good or service is expressed. Value Engineering is one of the tools used to evaluate such value and provide solutions for best fit value in real time. The core principle ...

Same as to many countries, Sri Lanka is also facing a waste crisis due to the issues in municipal solid waste management. As a solution, Waste to Energy (WtE) concept was aroused, which transforms waste to energy in the ...

Service consistency acts as a key media to achieve sameness and fairness in service delivery. Service consistency is vital to attraction of new customers, enhanced corporate image, reduced costs, and increased business ...

The epoch of big data is evolving new possibilities for Disaster Management (DM). The concept of Big Data has been constantly scrutinised in terms of data creation, storage, retrieval, and analysis where professionals ...

Sustainability is gaining popularity in the construction industry because of the growing concern that the industry has on the serious negative impacts of construction activities on the environment. To achieve sustainable ...

Estimates on the level of carbon emission varies but it is generally accepted that buildings consume about half of energy and contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. Mechanical and electrical (M&E) services accounts for ...