Drought is a natural phenomenon that occurs because of climate change. Droughts are
localized events influenced by climatic variables such as precipitation, evapotranspiration, and
temperature. As a result, the characteristics ...
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, ...
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 ...
Floods are getting severe due to climate change and anthropogenic activities which neeimmediate response to lower the risk and decrease the human and financial losses. Floodinundation mapping for flood risk preparedness ...
Floods are a frequent major disaster throughout the world, usually resulting in fatalities andmassive economic and environmental damage. Seasonal and localized flooding is one of theextremely common natural disasters in ...
Kalu Ganga basin is one of the main waterway basins in Sri Lanka which gets exceptionally
high rainfalls with higher discharges. This report is about how the different zones, having a
higher likelihood of a flood in the ...
All over the world, sustainability has been given immense attention, thus novel stateof-the-art
materials and building systems are emerging as alternatives. With those
different alternatives, comparison and the selection ...
Flood forecasting is a powerful tool for flood management and early warning, where the
anticipated flow values are determined by incorporating basin attributes and climatic factors.
In the field, data-driven models offer ...
The structural efficiency of tall buildings significantly relies on the lateral stiffness of
building and its resistance capacity against lateral loads. However, when the structure
becomes taller and slender, the building ...
Managing resources effectively in all fields including Construction and Project management
industry is essential for the development of the country. Many countries have tended to adopt
modern technologies such as mobile ...
In the Colombo Metropolitan Region (CMR), sustained productivity development is
key to Sri Lanka's 2022 growth as a middle income economy. One of the most valuable
growth engines in Sri Lanka is the increased productivity ...
The elephants are considered the largest terrestrial mammalian in the world, requiring a larger
amount of plant material for survival. The degradation and shrinking of forest of the island
resulted due to anthropological ...
Embodied carbon emissions have been overlooked in the past few decades. As such,
today, the building sector is responsible for 38% of all carbon emissions in the world
greenhouse gas emissions. To overcome the climate ...
Office buildings are one of the main categories of buildings which possess a rapid
growth rate in the context of urbanization. They contribute to a major part of energy
consumption in commercial building sector. Even ...
Due to the significance as an indicator of the pavement condition, International Roughness Index (IRI) is using globally as a pavement performance parameter. It also provides an idea about the riding comfort of a particular ...
Sri Lanka is a developing country and the construction industry plays a vital role in the contribution of the GDP. From the previous research, it was found, the construction workers play an important role in the project ...
In the past, Benkelman beam test is used as a nondestructive test (NDT) to investigate
pavements and to do overlay designs. The main advantage of the Benkelman beam method is
that using this method, an overlay design can ...
In Sri Lanka, Concrete has been widely used as a construction material for more than hundred years and it is necessary to analyse some of these existing old structures to check their structural adequacy, for retrofitting ...
Skin friction is a major component in any pile foundation’s load bearing capacity. In terms of a floating pile, almost entire bearing capacity depends on the skin friction. Skin friction may depend on the soil type and ...
The clients are most important contributor and main participant for the successful
construction project completion which depending on client’s behaviors and play major
role that cannot be avoided. Client involvement is ...