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Cement stabilized rammed earthfor wall junctions of two storey houses

Kandamby T; Jayasinghe C [Conference-Abstract]

Today the whole world is faced with environmental issues due to unsustainable use of natural resources, especially for construction activities. Finding alternative materials and methods is vital to minimize the impacts ...

Sustainability evaluation framework for energy power plants in Sri Lanka

Wijesooriya, SD; Sandanayake, YG; Konara, KMGK [Conference-Abstract]

Energy is essential for economic and social development of a country. Ever increasing energy demand forces public and private sector to install energy power plants without giving much attention to the sustainable issues. ...

Building energy consumption factors : a literature review and future research agenda

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. ...

Evaluation of guest requirements on hotel building facilities in Sri Lanka

Premarathne, W; Sandanayake, YG; Konara, KMGK [Conference-Abstract]

Tourism is one of the major economic areas in the Sri Lankan Policy Framework, with a vision to make Sri Lanka the foremost leisure destination in the South Asian Region. After ending the 30 years of ethnic war, the tourism ...

Evolution of building performance evaluation techniques : synthesizing current knowledge towards a future research agenda

Konara, KMGK; Sandanayake, YG [Conference-Abstract]

Buildings provide infrastructure and logistical support for core business functions and present comfortable and stable internal environment to the occupants. Buildings, however, are not static over time; they change, evolve ...

Multidimensional model for contractor selection in private sector construction projects

Iddamalgoda, ITLP; Sandanayake, YG; Wadugodapitiya, RRMMK [Conference-Abstract]

One of the most difficult decisions taken by the client in this era of construction industry is selecting a most suitable contractor. Since the construction industry is characterized by cost and time overruns, serious ...

Evaluation of stakeholder satisfaction in Tsunami damaged school reconstruction projects in Sri Lanka

Sandanayake, YG; Dissanayake, DMSC [Conference-Abstract]

Sri Lanka is one of the worst affected countries by 2004 Tsunami, which destroyed two third, of the Island's coastline. This necessitated massive reconstruction drive for recovery in all sectors including housing, healthcare, ...

INDUSTRY ATTRACTIVENESS OF OUTSOURCED FACILITIES MANAGEMENT SERVICES IN SRI LANKA

Weerasinghe, RPNP; Disanayake, DMPP; Andarawera, AK [Conference-Full-text]

Buildings should be habitable, safe, durable, energy efficient and adaptive to use though it is expensive to manage. The specialized team of Facilities Management (FM) is thus invited to create a comfort built environment ...

INCORPORATING TACIT KNOWLEDGE IN PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM IN A SRI LANKAN HOTEL

Alawdeen, MAH; Senaratne, S [Conference-Full-text]

Performance Measurement (PM) has been received an increasing attention over the past 20 years in the hotel industry. It is critical for the development of strategic plans and for evaluating the achievement of organisational ...

FRAMEWORK FORMITIGATING CONTRACTUAL DISPUTES IN THE SRI LANKAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

Thusharika, APJN; Abeynayake, M [Conference-Full-text]

Dispute is defined as “any contract question or controversy that must be settled beyond the jobsite management”. Most of the construction disputes related to the contractual matters. The aim of the research was to develop ...

IS CONSTRUCTION GETTING QUICKER

Ross, A; Norman, R; Manewa, A; Marsh, D [Conference-Full-text]

Construction time performance has been a frequent topic of discussion in the literature and government reports in which the performance of the UK construction industry has been reviewed. It is evident that construction ...

RE-THINKING POST-CONTRACT COST CONTROLLING TECHNIQUES IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

Omotayo, T; Kulatunga, U [Conference-Full-text]

The challenges of cost and time overruns, construction disputes and client dissatisfaction have plagued the construction industry in Nigeria. This may be as a result of the approaches used in monitoring construction ...

REVIEW OF STRATEGIES TO IMPROVEWORKPLACE SAFETY THROUGH ETHICAL CLIMATES

Rathnayake, U; Karunasena, G [Conference-Full-text]

Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is an important aspect in every type of organisations. Healthy workers are an important asset to the organisation and safety issues causes various losses to the organisation. Therefore, ...

RISK ALLOCATION BETWEEN MAIN CONTRACTORS AND SUBCONTRACTORS IN BUILDING PROJECTS IN SRI LANKA

Perera, KRS; Gunatilake, S; Vijerathne, DT; Wimalasena, NN [Conference-Full-text]

Risk is identified as a probability of occurrence of an event which may have an adverse impact on the project objectives. Therefore, risk identification and allocation in a well-defined manner is a mandatory prerequisite ...

RISK ASSOCIATED WITH FACILITIESMANAGEMENT OUTSOURCING AND ITS IMPACT ON SERVICE PERFORMANCE

Somarathna, KKGP; De Silva, N [Conference-Full-text]

In Sri Lanka, Facilities Management (FM) outsourcing has shown steady growth in recent years. Although FM outsourcing has become popular, organizations do not aware about what risks are involved with outsourcing and its ...

RISKMANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR FACILITIESMANAGER’S IN SRI LANKA

Abeysinghe, NSD; Andaraweera, AK [Conference-Full-text]

Value is a function of risk and return. Every decision either increases, preserves, or erodes value (COSO, 2004). Given that risk is integral to the pursuit of value, strategic-minded enterprises do not strive to eliminate ...

SAVING ENERGY IN OFFICE BUILDINGSWITHOUT COMPROMISING THEIR INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Akalanka, RADK; Perera, BAKS; Manjula, NHC [Conference-Full-text]

The concept of Internal Environmental Quality (IEQ) has emerged as a determinant of the performance of built environments due to its direct impact on the health, comfort and satisfaction of the occupants of the buildings ...

RE-DIRECTING CONSERVATION RISKS TO DISASTER RISKS IN CONSERVINGWORLD HERITAGE SITES INMALAYSIA

Mansir, D; Kasim, N; Radzuan, ISM [Conference-Full-text]

Although a host of researches have fished-out attributes collectively defining Conservation Risks (CR’s) at World Heritage Sites (WHS’s) in Malaysia, these attributes are reported to threatening WHS’s thereby posing as ...

POTENTIAL TO IMPLEMENT BIMPROJECT WITH SRI LANKAN PROFESSIONALS

Pathirana, APNYK; Jayasena, HS [Conference-Full-text]

Building Information Modelling (BIM) was found by construction industry, to increase the productivity of construction, while other industries gain more productivity by automating the processes and using software. BIM ...

OPTIMISATION OF PROJECT PERFORMANCE IN POST-DISASTER BUILDING RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN SRI LANKA

Hulugalla, M; Fernando, N [Conference-Full-text]

Natural catastrophes occur frequently around the world and cause severe undesirable impacts on human lives and properties of the communities. The restoration of a human life style after such massive event, consume some ...

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