Most of the construction works in the Mahaweli Development Project have been carried out through crash programmes. Even though, the project planning is vital for the economical and successful completion of any construction ...

The knowledge of quality costs makes the difference between costly way and beneficial way in achieving quality. These include costs associated with the achievement or non achievement of product quality as defined by ...

During the past two decades, Sri Lanka achieved rapid industrial and economic development. The increased development activities have created sudden surge on traffic volume on roads. Hence, the government has given priority ...

At present cash flow forecasting can be done construction programme or the standard curves. The method using the construction programme is tedious and time consuming. The method using the standard curves is simple and less ...

The objective of this research project is to develop a new Conditions of Contract suitable for major civil engineering works, appropriate to the local conditions. Works having estimated value of more than Rs.100 millions ...

In the sphere of construction contracts where the two parties Client and Contractor are involved it is characteristic to anticipate the susceptibility of the construction projects to many variation claims which generally ...

This research was conducted to ascertain the pre-construction delays in state sector projects. Data were collected from a sample of 22 projects, where contract value were over Rs.5.0 million for the study, from 11 different ...

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed series of standards and guidelines popularly known as ISO 9000 to enable any organization to develop Quality Management System for that particular organization. ...

Stress and deformation behavior in rock surrounding elliptical tunnels with concrete liners is investigated by finite element analysis. The loading condition is limited to hydrostatic pressure applied inside the tunnel and ...

The construction of roads has become a major Construction Industry in this country. Huge sums of money is being spent on Construction and Maintenance of roads. The cost effectiveness of three Road Pavement types which are ...