Raddolugama Housing Scheme was constructed in 1982, closer to the Seeduwa town in the Gampaha district. The scheme is provided with pipe borne water supplyand sewer system.
Raw water for pipe borne water supply is abstracted ...
The road construction sector is a branch of the construction industry in the world that
consists of the most hazardous health and safety issues. It has reported the highest
number of mortalities and the highest injury ...
Tsunami is one of the most devastated coastal hazard, which may perhaps yields serious damages to both human lives and properties in affected islands like Sri Lanka. As an island, Sri Lanka has also ...
As Sri Lanka is non fossil fuel producing country, large amount of national income has to be spent for fossil fuel in producing electricity from thermal power generation.
For example, CEB has spent 78.61 billion rupees ...
Climate change, population increase, and economic development will all have an impact on
future water availability for drinking water supply, agriculture, and recreation activities, with
different effects in different ...
Population growth raises demand and competition for water resources and food stocks while
it changes the landuse types by anthropogenic activities to adopt applicable measures for
supplying water for domestic, agricultural, ...
Effective communication plays a major role in a project towards its success. Today, most of
the construction projects deal with stakeholders around the world. Therefore, it is essential to
have a proper communication ...
Purpose of this study was to identify the key competencies of a project manager who
has the responsibility of project success. Literature survey was conducted to identify
the Project Manager's competency profile towards ...
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. ...
The tsunami of26 December 2004 struck two thirds of Sri Lanka's coastline and the damage was distributed from the north down the entire eastern and southern coast and covered the west coast as far as north of Colombo. The ...
Service quality at airports as perceived by air passengers is a comparison between their expectations and airport’s actual performance which is measured by the performance ofservice delivery ofthe airport. Delivering high ...
Uncertainty and randomness of data is a major Issue associated in geotechnical engineering. It is therefore desirable. to use methods and concepts in engineering planning and design that can facilitate the evaluation and ...
Hospitals are considered critical service units of a society that need to operate before,
during, and after disasters. The Ministry of Health of Sri Lanka has embraced the “Safe
Hospitals” Initiative promoted by the World ...
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 ...
Tsunami is one of the most devastated coastal hazard, which may
perhaps yields serious damages to both human lives and properties in
affected islands like Sri Lanka. As an island, Sri Lanka has also become
a Tsunami ...
The devastation caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and subsequent tsunami alerts in 2005 and 2007 as well as the historical records of possible tsunamis in the past have highlighted the vulnerability of the country ...
It was more than 40 years ago that Sri Lanka last established a wind loading map after the
severe cyclone that struck the country in 1978. It is strongly believed that statistical methods
had not been used in developing ...
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 ...
Waste management is a very widely known subject and it has served with many aspects of research areas already carried out to avoid waste in construction industry. But the problem still remains as this is very severe problem ...
Auto-Tuning Multi Tiered Applications for Performance With the widespread use of cluster-based environments, getting the maximum possible performance from multi-tiered web applications becomes an important task. The large ...