High Rise Buildings (HRB) have become much popular in recent years. Due to high occupancy in high rise buildings they have become high risk type facilities in case of fire. Properly designed, maintained and operated fire ...
Performance of concrete structures can be directly affected by the presence of a joint.
These joints can be either intentional or unintentional. The intentional joints may be formed to make the construction sequence more ...
Quarry dust (QD) is being extensively used as fine aggregates for both mortar and
concrete applications as an alternative to river sand. Because of the limited availability of river sand, it is necessary to search for ...
Construction activities involve many temporarily assembled multiple stakeholders with multiple interests, which make the process complex. This results in numerous disputes on construction projects. Although various forms ...
Urbanization tends bring out a number of problems, such as inadequate housing and urban services, increase land prices and construction costs, propagation of slums, pollution and; deterioration of the urban environment. ...
Natural barriers are large or small closely grown tree belts, vegetation walls, natural stone structures, tree fences etc. Natural barriers, have emerged as the new trend to address problems in urban areas and has developed ...
An “Insurance”, is a protection against a possible eventuality, which spans through numerous sectors of different types. Since, construction industry is known to be a high risk industry; it is always obscure the extent of ...
De Silva, END; Sampath, DBD; De Silva, CR[Article-Abstract]
Sri Lanka now has a prime market for “vertical growth” and the private sector has become the main developer. However, the government has also contributed to these developments through the condominiums constructed for low ...
De Silva, KGVK; Gunasekera, MY; De Alwis, AAP[Article-Abstract]
This article considers the challenge of setting threshold values or end points for toxic
gas exposure from Major Accident Hazards (MAH) to third parties or the public in the Sri Lankan context. Two different categories ...
According to the Buddhist philosophy, hatred (dosa) is considered as one of the three unwholesome roots which determine the actual immoral quality of volitional states and a conscious thought with its mental factors. Hatred, ...
Troubleshooting in Software as a Service (SaaS) environment is inherently complex due'to involvement of multiple subsystems, which operate under lots of uncertainty. A research has been conducted to develop a Multi Agent ...
Modem aerospace industry is continuously seeking new technologies due to potential increase in demand for new aircrafts which are to be produced on a single production line while reducing model changeover time and improving ...
Aircraft industry is continuously seeking new technologies due to the competitive market and high demand. During maintenance and manufacturing practices, dedicated supporting structures are used to handle large parts of ...
Pollution by heavy metals is a serious threat to aquatic ecosystems because some of
these metals are potentially toxic even at very low concentrations. Chitosan, a biopolymer produced from crustacean shells, has applications ...
Development of a ceramic based cookware body with adequate thermal shock resistance was successfully developed using low cost raw materials. The objective of this work was to develop a ceramic body composition suitable for ...
In this study natural biopolymer "chitosan" was synthesized using locally available shrimp type of Penaeus monodon. Synthesis of chitosan involved four main stages: preconditioning, demineralization, deprotenisalion and ...
The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) Identifying the risks that are critical for risk management of road construction projects in Sri Lanka on a life cycle basis and (2) defining the shares of the parties involved ...
Purpose – The Facilities Management (FM) profession is now established in most developed countries and infew developing countries such as Singapore and Hong Kong. However, with rapid mushrooming of high rise buildings, ...
Esterification reactions are limited by chemical equilibrium and therefore they are
carried out commercially using either a large excess of one of the reactants or by removing one of the products continuously. The removal ...