Vehicular traffic has increased across all over the world especially in urban areas. Many reasons including the reduction in the cost of vehicles, degradation of public transport services and increased wealth can be ...

Value Engineering (VE) is an emerging concept in the modern world whereas the Sri Lankan situation is incompatible to other countries. The basic principle of VE is to eliminate unnecessary cost of an item without compromising ...

Reinforce concrete structures are being built from centuries and not all of them serve for their design life as they are exposed to various environmental conditions and sudden loads. There are certain cases, where there ...

Demand for sand has increased at present due to the rapid infrastructure development in the country. As a result of excessive extraction, natural river sand has been depleted in river basins around the country. Shortage ...

The construction industry is developing rapidly in Sri Lanka with new building constructions and demolishing old buildings. These activities are accompanied by production of debris material which stockpiles annually in ...

Climate change is expected to inflict severe consequences on the hydrological cycle and water resources of a catchment. With this backdrop, it is crucial to have better insight into functioning of current water resources ...

In the cold regions because of harsh climates, there exists no or an inadequate number of monitoring stations. It is indeed a challenge to generate the hydrographs of ungauged basins with scanty information from limited ...

Water is becoming progressively scarce and effective usage of accessible supplies is of major concern. Globally, 15% ~ 21% of the water allocated for irrigation is lost due to poor management and non-optimized conveyance ...

Global climate change is known to trigger local and regional hydrologic variations like changes in precipitation patterns, increased surface temperatures and more frequent floods and droughts. Apt and efficient water ...

Small islands all over the world face drinking water scarcity issues due to low rainfall, high evaporation rates and salinity in groundwater. Their unique geo-hydrological setup which consists of a buoyant lens-shaped ...