Master of Engineering in Construction Management

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    Planning techniques applied in construction industry in Sri Lanka.
    Bandula, GHS; De Silva, MWJA
    The construction of roads has become a major cons rue Ion industry in the country from early eighties. Huge sums of money is being spent on Construction / Rehabilitation of roads. The Consultative work, ie Feasibility Studies, Construction Supervision, etc. is done by foreign companies jointly with local companies, who take the contract from the RDA. This exercise is to identify the Management Information System (MIS) adopt by them and the problems they encounter in order to develop a suitable MIS.// Management of information by integrating various technologies to help the managers in making decisions has become popular in the present day world. Initial stages, the MIS were developed in the fields of marketing, manufacturing and production. This can be extended to the Consultative work of the road construction industry too. With the advancement of the computer hardware and software, computer based MIS help the Consultants to achieve their tasks effectively.// Information collected from the individual engineers and the project reports produced by Consultants for six large road projects in Sri Lanka were analyzed in this document.// The results obtained indicate that a computer based MIS can be developed for the Consultants engaged in road construction rehabilitation works in Sri Lanka and the Road Development Authority (RDA) has sufficient institutional capacity to provide information required by the Consultants.// This study leads to further research on detail design of the MIS and it's sub-systems.
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    Review of ICTAD conditions of contact for building construction works.
    Logeswaran, N; De Silva, MWJA
    The objective of this research project is to review the ICTAD conditions of contract suitable for local building construction works. The Government of Sri Lanka had approved the said document in August 1988 to use in the state sector for both building and civil engineering construction works, which was prepared by the ICTAD, commonly known as the 'ICTAD conditions of contract'. Since the building and civil engineering construction works have some differences in their character and contract administration, which are described in chapter 4, the use of one document is not a desirable approach given the diversity of practices and traditions prevailing in both works. The ICTAD conditions of contract is a document far from perfect and there are plenty of scope for improvements, because this was prepared based on the FIDIC conditions of contract (Third edition) which is 17years old document. Use of a single document to cover the both construction works is not practice in the international construction scene. By considering all the above action was taken to review the ICT AD conditions of contract mainly through literature survey, questionnaire survey and the comparison of selected conditions of contracts. Chapter 7 gives the necessary modifications to the ICTAD conditions of contract. ICTAD should also take necessary steps to review its conditions of contract for building construction works in association with the ACCSL, the Institute of Architects, the Institution of Engineers and the Institute of Quantity Surveyors.