Through this Bolgoda Chat, we meet Professor KAMK (Malik) Ranasinghe, another celebrated former Vice Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa. During his tenure as Dean and as Vice Chancellor, Professor Ranasinghe introduced ...

Urban planning necessitates public participation to ensure that every individual’s voice and requirements are heard and considered, thereby promoting inclusive urban development. According to UN-Habitat (2018), public ...

Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are advanced nuclear reactors with a typical electrical output up to 300 MWe per unit and can produce 7.2 GWh per day, which is about one-third of the capacity of traditional nuclear power ...

A single rock piece or several rock boulders getting detached and displaced from their initial position followed by free falling, sliding, bouncing, rolling, and deposition creates a rockfall incident [1]. Rockfalls are ...

Bolgoda ecosystem has the largest natural lake and freshwater body in Sri Lanka located on the southwest boundary of Colombo District and covering two-thirds of Kalutara District. It is also listed as “one of the 1001 ...

I am an architect by profession and an academic involved in teaching at the University of Bahrain, a small island in the Arabian Gulf. Originally from Pakistan and living in Bahrain, flying over Sri Lanka for a decade has ...

The proposed device consists of a system of helical elastic springs bilaterally located on the shank for capturing/storing waste biomechanical energy at the knee, a cable and pulley system to transmit power from and to the ...

Environmental concerns have gained international attention as a result of rising urbanisation and population expansion. One of the main sectors responsible for the devastation of the environment is the construction industry. ...

In the Sri Lankan Agriculture Sector, rural rice cultivation farmers have found the best way of eliminating the highly generating rice straw by direct open field burning due to the high cost of straw collection and management, ...