Built Environment & Spatial Sciences: Recent submissions
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Auto-generate Landmine Path, Digitize and Visualize the Data for the Sri Lankan Context
(2020-10)Landmines could be identified as affordable and effective defensive weapon, but it has many complexities. Human deaths and injuries, agricultural land degradation, destruction to infrastructure, environmental destruction, ... -
Impact of Workforce Diversity on Employee Performance in Sri Lankan Construction Industry
(2020-10)Workforce diversity provides heterogeneity to a workforce thereby making it a strategic capability to provide competitive advantage to organizations. Effective management of diverse human resource in the right manner ... -
Impact of Colour on Worker Performance and Satisfaction in Sri Lankan Office Buildings with Reference to Bank Buildings in Gampaha District
(2020-10)Colours helps to generate spatial qualities in architecture and affect the psychological and physiological condition of the user. Colours can influence on wellbeing and provide impact on human behaviour. Careful use ... -
Contribution of Built Environment on Inclusive Urban Design: with Special Reference to Selected Transport Related Public Spaces in Galle, Sri Lanka
(2020-10)Designing architectural spaces is thought to contribute to social inclusion, eventually satisfying all components of the society. The building and space characteristics have a powerful impact on the quality on peoples ... -
Factors affecting contractor’s risk on cost overburden in Sri Lankan Construction Industry
(2020-10)Cost overrun is one of the major issue faced by the construction industry at present. The contractor’s cost overrun directly affects with the contractor’s profit margin which has become a major burden within the contractor’s ... -
Sustaining ‘Walkability’ in the Future City : with Special Reference to Central Business District of Colombo, Sri Lanka
(2020-10)Colombo was founded as an outpost by Portuguese in 1505. Later it fell in the hands of Dutch and British. This nonorganically produced city later became the capital of the independent Ceylon. Throughout the history ... -
GIS Mechanism For Terrain Trafficability
(2020-10)Geographic Information Systems(GIS) could be identified as a leading application mechanism that grows beyond in each and every aspect of the world. The GIS applications in decision making in the military field ... -
Robust Street edges as an Extension of Shop Fronts; a study with special reference to area of Negombo
(2020-10)Streets are providing a media for the moving elements such as pedestrians and vehicles, but it serves a place for myriad purposes and forming a major part of the cities. While streets offering multiple activities ... -
Factors Influencing the Adoption of E-procurement for Public Sector Works in Sri Lanka: A Case Study Analysis.
(2020-10)Public sector institutes inherently suffer from the information asymmetries, extra time and cost penalties, corruption, transparency issues, anti-competition, and too much documentation with utmost human interventions ... -
Significant Causes behind Payment Delays in Public Sector Building Construction Projects in North Western Province of Sri Lanka.
(2020-10)Payment delay is one of the most significant issues experienced in public sector building construction projects. Correspondingly, most of the building construction projects in North-Western Province (NWP) of Sri Lanka ... -
Causes behind Poor Written Communication Impact on Contractor’s Quantity Surveyor Practices in Post Contract Stage
(2020-10)Effective communication among different stakeholders is a vigorous characteristic of successful construction industry practices. Written communication provides documentary evidence for strengthening key contractual ... -
Livability of Vertical Apartments: A Study of the Relationship between Environmental Psychological Satisfaction and Height of Living with Special Reference to Low Income Apartments
(2020-10)This study investigates the liveability of low income vertical apartments in Colombo, by means of finding the relationship between environmental psychological satisfaction and height of living. The main objective of ... -
A Geo-Physical Investigation into the Colombo Port Seabed using Sub Bottom Profiler
(2020-10)Traditionally, seabed layers were determined by using conventional mechanical methods like boreholing, which retrieved the strata at a single point at one time. Later it was developed to various acoustic remote ... -
Mapping & Classifying Paddy Fields Applying Machine Learning Algorithms with Multi-temporal Sentinel-1A in Ampara district
(2020-10)In Sri Lanka, Seasonal paddy field area mapping is still doing based on the traditional methods with poor technologies. Therefore this research focuses on the machine approach of mapping paddy fields area accurately ... -
Impact of Covid -19 Pandemic to Construction Industry in Sri Lanka
(2020-10)Covid -19 is a highly contagious global pandemic. Social distancing measures are the most successful tactic in combating the diseases. Due to the disease itself and local and global pandemic combating measures, ... -
The Impact of Living in High-rises for the Cognitive Development of Early Childhood in Sri Lanka
(2020-10)High-rise buildings have become a popular strategy for accommodating population growth in urban areas in Sri Lanka. Each and every building has different characters and personalities that offer different experiences ... -
Reconsidering Shophouse Architecture for Contemporary Times
(2020-10)The shophouses were the elegant buildings that lined along the Sri Lankan streets from the past. The very fact that the shophouses and their proportions contribute to the growth of the evolution of tropical architecture ... -
Evaluation of Urban Compactness Indicators and Solar Potential in the Urban Environment
(2020-10)One viable solution for clean onsite energy production and utilisation is Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV). The available area for installation may not be sufficient to meet the building energy demand in high-rise ... -
Principle factors which affect to the proper functioning of urban public gathering spaces with special reference to recreational parks in Colombo city
(2020-10)Rapid urbanization and change of lifestyles require more public open spaces in cities to fulfill different socio, economic and environmental needs of the city. The urban park is a breathing space in a highly dense urban ... -
Architectural attributes which affect the rehabilitation and reintegration of juvenile correctional facilities
(2020-10)The process of reintegrating juvenile delinquents to society from correctional facilities is as important as the process of rehabilitation. If the rehabilitation process is not conducted properly it would rather be ...