Master of Business Administration in Infrastructure

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    Cost effectiveness of non revenue water reduction in greater Kandy area
    Ranasinghe, CJ; Halwathura, R
    Proportion of Non-Revenue Water (NRW) measured as a percentage of the total water distributed to consumers varies from 10% to 55% in most of the existing piped water supply schemes. Loss of revenue due to NRW is enormous. Analyses of losses to the utility in the above aspect and comparative studies on the cost of improving existing systems verses cost of construction of new systems may be useful for planners as well as for network system designers. It will also be helpful in reducing the substantial investment to build new water supply project to cater to the increasing demand. However, the time has come for planning, design and construction of systems with minimum operation and maintenance burden using the world's best available practices and also to have programmers for controlling water losses in existing systems. This enable to save the limited water resource, to have the maximum benefit from the money spent mostly out of foreign loans and to expand the pipe borne water supply facility to more than 50% of the population who are deprived of the facility. To analyze the financial viability of Construct ion of new water supply system Vs rehabilitation/augmentation of existing system, this research was conducted. This study is focused to select the most cost effective option in meeting increasing demand for drinking water by cost saving of reduction of NRW compared to investment in development of new scheme in Kandy Area. To attain this purpose, Harispaththuwa ,Akurana,and Ampitiya Schemes were considered to calculate the Cost of Rehablitation . Construction cost of Ulapane scheme was taken as the construction of new water supply scheme. Internal rate of return was calculated for both projects and compared each other. According to, the comparison Rehabilitation/augmentation of existing system was financially viable but NRW saving from rehabilitation is not sufficient to cater to the projected current and future demand
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    Sri Lanka software export industry : an evaluation using the software export success model
    Dharmawardhana, HMSN; Halwathura, R
    The last twenty-five years have seen an explosive growth in the software industry. Annual growth in the global software industry has been above 15 per cent since the early 1990s and remains on rising trend. Many countries world-wide are becoming active or interested in software exports. The major software industries of the world are located in the world's richest economies; countries such as the USA, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Italy that have been building those industries since in the late 1960s. Those which developed a software industry after the 1970s were called 'followers' and the three largest software 'followers' are 3Is - India, Ireland & Israel. The local software export industry also elapses a period of steady growth. The key factor which contributes for the development of the software industry is the expansion of the outsourcing opportunities received from developed countries. The Software Lxponers Association (SEA) of Sri Lanka has targeted to achieve total exports of US$ 1.0 billion in 2012. To achieve this target Sri Lanka need to compete with \ industry giant such as first-tier countries - India, Ireland, Israel, etc and the countries in the second-tier China, Russia etc. The rationale of this research, is to focus on the first-tier follower countries that successfully built export-oriented software industries, to gain knowledge from their experiences and to then examine the status of 'second-tier' follower - 'Sri Lanka' in the light of those experiences. Further to identify strengths and weaknesses of the Sri Lankan Software Export Industry using Software Export Success Model. Even though the scope of this research is limited to the particular model, the methodology and the findings intend to broaden the Sri Lankan software export industry while enlightening the future research works. l.astly. in the thesis, accepting the research findings as baseline, it recommends various strategies clutched by analysing '3Is' using the success model.