University of Moratuwa

Assessing the level of sustainability of supply chain management in facilities management

Purpose This study aims to assess the sustainability level of facilities management supply chains (FMSCs) within the Sri Lankan apparel manufacturing industry. This paper seeks to identify the detailed functions of facilities management (FM), pinpoint the sustainability considera...

Circular economy-driven bio-digital building adaptation: integrating biodegradable materials with AI-enabled lifecycle tracking

Purpose This study examines how circular economy principles in the built environment can be advanced by integrating biodegradable construction materials with digital lifecycle intelligence. It addresses the persistent challenges of embodied carbon reduction, waste minimisation an...

BRiDGENav: Belief-Driven Risk-Aware Dynamic Guidance and Event-Triggered Navigation

Human–robot interaction (HRI) and navigation in crowded indoor spaces require robots to reason not only about where humans may be but also about whether uncertain human motion conflicts with the robot’s intended path. Existing context-aware particle filtering (CA-PF) provides a u...

Cross-Boundary Practices within the Construction Industry: The Case of the Quantity Surveyors

Abstract The evolving dynamics of the construction industry have sharpened the need for quantity surveyors (QSs) to reinterpret their role, expanding beyond traditional commercial management practices to encompass broader strategic functions such as value optimization and interdi...

SEZ-HARN: Self-explainable Zero-shot Human Activity Recognition Network

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data has numerous applications in healthcare and assisted living. However, its deployment in real-world scenarios is constrained by the limited availability of labeled datasets covering diverse activities and...

Steel Inter-Modular Connections for Resilient and Sustainable Modular Buildings: A Structured Comparative Review and Design Framework

Inter-modular connections (IMCs) govern the structural performance, safety, seismic resilience, and reusability of steel modular buildings, yet the existing literature on advanced IMC systems remains fragmented and connection-specific. This paper presents a comparative review of...

Deploying automation technologies to mitigate occupational safety and health hazards in port operations

Purpose Ports are hazardous places to work, and several hazards and associated occupational safety and health (OSH) risks exist to port workers including physical factors, machinery injuries, injuries associated with hazardous materials and exposure to the elements. This research...

Cross-Domain Benchmarking of Focus Measures for Smear-Microscopy Autofocus Under a Consensus-Audited Reference

Focus-measure recommendations for smear microscopy are typically established on one specimen type under one reference definition and one scoring rule, leaving their transferability untested. We benchmark 32 handcrafted focus measures on 26,100 z-stacks spanning five smear-microsc...

Polylactic acid/cellulose nanocrystals/polyethylene glycol-based shape memory composite for a 4D printed thermoresponsive gripper system

This work introduces a novel thermo-responsive 4D printable gripper system via polylactic acid (PLA), cellulose nanocrystals (CNC), and polyethylene glycol (PEG)-based shape memory composite. PEG, serving as a biocompatible plasticizer, and CNC, acting as a biodegradable reinforc...

SBCR-A*: Supercover-Based Corridor Reconstruction for Optimal Path Length in Grid-Based Navigation

Abstract Grid-based path planning and optimization remain widely used in robotics and autonomous navigation because real environments can be discretized into binary occupancy grids, allowing algorithms such as A* to guarantee a solution whenever a collision-free path exists. Howe...

Enhancing maintenance training through augmented reality: development and evaluation of a contextual prototype for Sri Lanka’s apparel industry

Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop an augmented reality (AR) maintenance training model focused specifically on enhancing the learning value, autonomy and accessibility of maintenance technologists in the Sri Lankan apparel industry. Through the integration of AR tec...

Environmental dynamism and organisational resilience: a comprehensive bibliometric analysis

Purpose This study systematically maps the intellectual structure, thematic evolution and global research frontiers of environmental dynamism and organisational resilience research, addressing the rapid expansion and fragmentation of this interdisciplinary field and providing a c...

Establishment of Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE) Values for Urban Intersections Using Drones

Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE) factors are widely used to convert heterogeneous traffic streams into equivalent homogeneous flow rates for the design and analysis of roads and intersections. In developing countries, mixed traffic conditions differ substantially from those in deve...

Beyond methodological fidelity: emotional intelligence as the relational infrastructure of agile project management

Purpose Agile methodologies have proliferated across project-based industries, yet scholarly discourse remains oriented toward procedural and technical dimensions. This study challenges the prevailing technocentric bias by investigating how emotional intelligence (EI) shapes agil...

Incidentally detected elevated jugular venous pressure revealing a delayed post-CABG ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm near a saphenous vein graft origin: a case report

Ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening delayed postoperative complication of cardiac surgery, arising at previous aortic manipulation sites. It may remain clinically silent until expansion, compressive effects, contained rupture, or catast...

CALCOM: An integrated techno-economic and life-cycle environmental framework for electric vehicle assessment in Sri Lanka

Electric vehicle (EV) adoption is accelerating worldwide, creating a need for comprehensive frameworks that assess economic feasibility and environmental performance. This study presents a context-adaptive levelized cost of mileage (CALCOM) framework to evaluate the economic and...