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Sheffield Hallam University -BSc (hons) Quantity Surveying & Construction management Dissertation synopsis

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DISSERTATION SYNOPSIS

PROGRAM : BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying & Construction Management – SHU SL

MODULE : Dissertation Synopsis

STUDENT NAME : Shakila Nimesha jayaneththi

ICBT STUDENT NO : 14/M/SL/90

SHU ID : 23048073

DATE : 06th July 2014

TITLE :The Feasibility Of Introducing Mechanical And Methodological

Solutions To Improve Effectiveness And Efficiency Of Existing Labour

Force As A Solution For Labour Shortage In Building Construction

Industry In Sri Lanka.


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TITLE

THE FEASIBILITY OF INTRODUCING MECHANICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL

SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY OF EXISTING

LABOUR FORCE AS A SOLUTION FOR LABOUR SHORTAGE IN BUILDING

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN SRI LANKA.


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INTRODUCTION

“Sri Lankan contractors weighed down by high labour turnover”

(Zulfath Saheed LBR, Friday 18 March 2011)

(Web Link: http://lbr.lk/fullstory.php?nid=201103181634309969 )

“We need more labours for our sites. But it is difficult to engage them due to high rates. Need to

find a solution or subsidiaries to labour requirement of our sites”

(Prabodha Sumanasekara. Chairman of VS Group. Official Discussion on 24th May 2014 3pm to

5pm)

There is a two type of Labours in construction industry. They can category as Skill labours and

unskilled labours In the Sri Lankan Construction Industry most of the works and trades carried

by skill and unskilled labour force. Construction Industry Growth up highly. Material, Machines

and man power cost increasing in day by day. Now a day scarcity of labours is mostly suffering

matter in construction Industry. Labour rates, labour maintains also very costly.Therefore

Employers has to face difficulties with labour urgency of Sri Lankan construction industry.

There profits also reduced due to increasing of labour wages.

One of the reason is, Sri Lankan construction industry do not try to keep labours with

themselves. Most of Construction companies in Sri Lanka They diffuse their labours after

completing of projects. Due to that reason labours has to find another opportunities. Therefore

industry has built up Vass labour vacant. Due to that grows up labour urgency in the industry.

Due to urgency of labour most of the companies are not use labours effectively. And they are not

use their existing labour force effectively to their projects

Therefore people need to implement new technology and methodologies to improve efficiency of

the labours and how to use them effectively to the projects. That is need to study feasibility of

new methods and technologies introduced to Sri Lankan construction industry to improve

labour’s effectiveness and efficiency.

In this scenario try to find out solutions for scarceness of labour and using new technology,

methodologies and technics to increasing effectiveness and efficient of construction worker’s.


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OBJECTIVES

1. Find out reasons for labour scarcity in construction industry in Sri Lanka.

2. To study new machines and methods which are already in the Construction industry and

finding out reasons for rare usage of them.

3. To Study the enables and barriers to introduce new machines and methodological

solutions as substitution to labour urgency.

4. To study existing labour force can be utilised effectively and efficiently.

AIM

To study the Feasibility of introducing mechanical and methodological solutions to improve

effectiveness and efficiency of existing labour force as a solution for Labour shortage in Building

Construction Industry in Sri Lanka.

HYPOTHESIS

Introducing new mechanical and methodological solutions to improve effectiveness and

efficiency of existing labour force give solution for Labour shortage in Building Construction

Industry in Sri Lanka to minimize construction cost.

METHODOLOGY

Question Survey-. Expect to minimum ten questions and obtain answers from expertise peoples

who are mobilizing in top level management of ten reputed construction companies in Sri Lanka.

Literature Survey - Reading journals, books, newsletters and web sites to collecting information

to find out methods and machines which are in Construction Industry and what are the methods

and machines already used in other countries to minimizing the labour scarcity.

LIMITATIONS

Considering Construction Companies in Colombo area due to large and Varity projects available

in Colombo.

Contact Ten Interviewers to questionnaire of reputed Construction Companies

Available Written Documents related to subject in library and World Wide Web (Internet)


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REFERANCES

LBR, Zulfath Saheed LBR, Friday 18 March 2011

(Web Link: http://lbr.lk/fullstory.php?nid=201103181634309969 )

NDB StockBrokers, 2013,Sri Lankan Construction Industry,NDB Colombo

Formal Discussions with Prabodha Sumanasekara. Chairman of VS Group.