Master of Business Administration in Infrastructure

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    Development of an effective and enforceable effluent control system for industrial estates in Sri Lanka
    Jayawardena, B; Gunawardena, ND
    As a result of rapid industrialization and the poor attention paid to control industrial pollution a remarkable increase in generation of pollutants and accumulation of wastes are observed in the country. Industries have conveniently ignored the treatment of industrial effluents due to weak or virtually non existent regulatory enforcement. Central wastewater treatment plants in many industrial estates are not functioning effectively and surface water bodies have become polluted and continue to create a threat to public health, aquatic life and sustainability of the environment. Therefore, the need for an effective and enforceable industrial pollution management system has been identified as a prime requirement in the country. The objective of this research was to develop an effective and enforceable effluent control policy and strategy based on a mix of market based incentives for environmental compliance combined with an element of command and control characteristics for industries in industrial estates in Sri Lanka. Biyagama Export Processing Zone was taken as the proxy for current effluent control system in industrial estates in Sri Lanka. The proposed effluent control system was was developed based on experiences of other countries and feasibility studies conducted in the Sri Lankan context on effectiveness of using economic incentives in controlling pollution. Efforts were made to address the present limitations in the public sector where the lack of accountability of the regulatory agencies resulted in poor effluent monitoring and weak enforcement, with a pragmatic system that transferred the burden of proof of compliance from the regulatory agency to the industrialist. Literature review includes experiences and similar case studies from countries like Germany, Japan, Indonesia, China, Australia and Sri Lanka. The research proposes a load based license fee scheme for the effluent generating industries in industrial estates in Sri Lanka. This system will make industries responsible for industrial pollution control through self monitoring and minimizes the involvement of the regulator in routine monitoring and passes the burden of proof of compliance to the industrialist. The regulator's role is limited to ad-hoc compliance monitoring to verify the self monitoring data from the industrialist combined with a effluent charges for ensuring compliance with national environmental standards. The environmental management policy proposed makes the polluter responsible for environment protection by offering economic incentives to reduce and control pollution. This is one of the strategies priorities outlined in the National Industrial Pollution Management Action Plan and is a long time need of the country. It is expected that adoption of the environment management system proposed as a result of this research will result in a significant improvement in compliance of national environmental standards.
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    Project manager's level of satisfaction in construction logistics in ISO 9001 certified Sri Lankan construction companies
    Munasinghe, MMD; Gunawardena, ND
    Customer satisfaction and continuous improvement are the fundamental goals of construction logistics and ISO 9001 standard. ISO 9001 is a universally understood and accepted quality management system which comprises of a set of tools, when properly implemented; gives customer confidence that the supplier can continuously meet their requirement timely in the required quality. While much attention and much research has been focused on exploring the relationships of external customer satisfaction, researches on internal customer satisfaction is very few in number. Happy satisfied internal customer will improve the bottom line of an organization. So by this case, the paper is to identify the factors that are required to increase Project Manger's satisfaction (most important internal customer) especially on actions that are taken by the management in ISO certified construction companies. The purpose of this study is to extend the framework for construction material logistics in customer satisfaction from owner to project manager level. This paper examines how construction logistics affect a project manager's level of satisfaction. A survey established the general importance that a project manager must place on the construction logistics. Accordingly, the most significantly correlated factors in customer satisfaction were obtained from a project manager's point of view. Key important factors related to satisfaction were found through interviews with project managers and a literature review. These included project's personnel, material flow, schedule, contractor's organization, and information flow. The study results out of the key logistic factors material flow, information flow, schedule and personal found to be highly significant over total satisfaction of PM on construction logistics in ISO certified Sri Lankan companies. Out of significant factors suggest that material flow, information flow and schedule are worthy of the most attention. Satisfying the above factors will greatly improve the construction logistics that will, greatly increase the project manager's level of satisfaction over construction logistics. This paper also investigates the effect of logistics on, time, cost and quality of a project and also suggested the actions that have been practiced by the management of ISO9001certified construction companies in fulfilling their Project manager's satisfaction.
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    Utilization enhancement of network infrastructure in University of Colombo
    Kumara, DKSP; Gunawardena, ND
    Abstract Sound project evaluation is a vital part of any project in any field especially in developing countries. Progress of the other on going projects and planned future projects depend on the success of the past projects. So it is very important to evaluate completed projects and to find out methods to chancy the utilization of resources of these projects. These methods will eventually help to make a distinct progress of the project and ultimately get project objectives achieved./ To keep pace with this it is necessary to conduct several surveys periodically after implementation of the project and apply those findings. Most of the projects implemented during last few decades especially with foreign aids have not succeeded or have not achieved their main objectives. In many cases, this part is ignored after the completion of the project. Project evaluation plays a vital role and it helps to move the project to its end point and achieve objectives. Success of the project depends on evaluating user’s requirements and finding solutions to their problems./ In this research project various aspects such as network performance users' requirements, how resources are utilized, how value added services can be introduced and what are the socio-economic problems remaining will be discussed.