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    Emergency preparedness in the hospitality industry in Sri Lanka
    (2017) Chandrasekera, T; Hebert, P
    This study investigates the emergency preparedness of the hospitality industry in Sri Lanka, focusing on hotels and restaurants in the southern coastal belt. A questionnaire on emergency preparedness was provided to 30 randomly recruited participants from the industry. The survey consisted of 30 open and closed ended questions, focusing on basic demographic information, information about emergency preparedness of the facility, food safety, and issues regarding power management. An online and a hard copy version of the survey were prepared. The findings of this study provide insight on the emergency preparedness of the hospitality industry in Sri Lanka as well as provide insight into how improvements can be made in future developments of similar nature especially in terms of emergency mitigation efforts. These findings also provide suggestions on areas that need to be improved through educating the industry.
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    Liquid architecture : hypersurface as an architectural idiom
    Chandrasekera, T; Wijegunawardena, S
    Architecture as a melting pot between the arts and sciences and as the study of the built environment has become a cross disciplinary platform for discussion and experimentation into an emerging Multi-Dimensional Digital Society. Architecture seeks to find harmony between pragmatics and poetics through phenomenological relationships of tectonics, placement, and culture. The choreography of these events, both physical and metaphysical, leads to a depth in the art of place making. Today Architecture is recasting itself, becoming, in part an experimental investigation of new geometries, those of the structure and flow of information, and of new socio-spatial organizations that move and change outside of conventional Cartesian co-ordinates. Architecture must grapple with new Virtual spaces and their relationship to the Physical spaces we inhabit. New architectural diagrams must be conceived and therein the digital revolution will be integrated into the very fabric of architectural discourse and practice