Three day Pre-Conference Workshop on "Structural Design of Super Tall Buildings"
will be held at the Department of Civil Engineering on 22nd, 23rd and 24th of July, 2019
The pre-conference workshop schedule:
Date |
Section |
Resource Person |
Topic |
22nd July |
8.30 am – 12.30 pm |
Prof. M .T.R. Jayasinghe |
Super tall buildings and advanced concrete technology |
1.30 pm – 5.30 pm |
Dr Dhammika Mahaarachchi |
Super tall buildings - fundamentals and important behaviours |
|
23rd July |
8.30 am – 10.30 am |
Dr Asiri Weerasuriya |
Wind design of super tall buildings and environmental wind designs |
11.00 am - 12.30 pm |
Dr Dhammika Mahaarachchi |
Structural Modelling concepts and applications |
|
1.30 pm – 5.30 pm |
Dr. Dhammika Mahaarachchi |
Structural Design of Super Tall Buildings - case studies/applications |
|
|
8.30 am – 10.30 am |
Eng Ranjan Fernando |
Deep basements and pile foundation designs for super tall buildings |
11.00 am - 12.30 pm |
Dr. Hasitha Damruwan |
Facade design, impact and blast resistant glass facades |
|
1.30 pm – 3.30 pm |
Dr Loizos Pelecanos |
Pile foundations, advanced testing methods and monitoring |
|
4.00 pm - 5.30 pm |
Panel of presenters |
Panel Discussion on Super Tall Buildings |
About the presenters:
Prof M T R Jayasinghe - B. Sc. Eng. Hons (Moratuwa), Ph.D. (Cambridge): He pioneered the tall building design teaching in Sri Lanka since 1996 and has teaching experience with reinforced concrete, masonry, prestressed concrete, green technology, etc.
Dr Dhammika Mahaarachchi - B.Sc. Eng. Hons. (Moratuwa), Ph.D. (QUT): He has research and working experience in Australia in many sectors including the mining industry. He has designed the 120 storey tall reinforced concrete building with PT slabs which is currently being constructed in Malaysia
Dr Loizos Pelecanos - He is an academic from the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering of University of Bath, United Kingdom and has B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Imperial College, London. He has vast experience in geotechnical engineering and advanced FEM modelling including producing his own coding for new applications of FEM
Dr Asiri Weersuriya - B.Sc. Eng. Hons. (Moratuwa), M.Sc. (Moratuwa), Ph.D. (Hong-Kong): He has been an active researcher on wind engineering with his M.Sc. and Ph.D. and currently actively involved in deep research into wind environmental design aspects for clusters of tall buildings
Eng Ranjan Fernando - Managing Director, Ranjan Fernando Consulting Engineers Pvt Ltd, (RFCE), Melbourne Australia with vast experience on value engineering for foundations and deep basements of all types of buildings in Melbourne, Australia
Dr Hasitha Damruwan - B.Sc. Eng. Hons. (Moratuwa), Ph.D. (QUT, Australia): He is a fine lecturer and is a master for structural dynamics with FEM and also facade design aspects
Pre-Conference Workshop fee: Rs 15,000 per person (lunch and refreshments and course materials provided).
Those attending both the Pre-conference workshop (22nd, 23rd and 24th of July) and ICCEA 2019 (25th and 26th of July) will be charged only Rs 25,000 per person for both the events lasting five days.
charaka@uom.lk or iccea2019@gmail.com
All payments shall be made by an Account Payee cheque drawn in favour of "University of Moratuwa" and sent the same with a covering letter to the address given below indicating that it is the registration fee for the Pre-Conference Workshop on Structural Design of Super Tall Buildings scheduled for 22nd, 23rd and 24th of July, 2019 to be held at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa.