CCI hosts seminar on future of local construction industry

With exclusive sponsorship from Tokyo Cement Group, the Chamber of Construction Industry Sri Lanka (CCI) conducted a seminar titled ‘For Construction in Sri Lanka, What Next?’ on November 5, 2019, at the Galadari Hotel, Colombo.

Participation was by invitation and many professionals and those associated with the industry attended.

Amongst the interesting topics discussed was the national physical development plan for the next 30 years (Upon which the development trajectory of the country would take place), which was presented by National Physical Planning Department Director and Urban Development Authority Chairman Dr. Jagath Munasinghe.

This was followed by another interesting topic on the feasibility study done for the suburban railway development around and away from the city of Colombo. This would include the electrification of suburban railway network and laying triple tracks to the rail line towards the south and the rail towards Kandy and Puttalam upto a distance of the cities’ suburban region. The next topic that was presented and discussed was on the light rail transit through the city towards Malabe.

All of above topics were not only vivid in their presentations but were also very informative.

Thereafter, Construction Industry Development Authority Director General Archt. H. Balachandra and CCI Secretary General and CEO Eng. Nissanka Wijeratne made and educative presentation on the National Policy on Construction and the role of the CIDA and its Act and Regulations.

The seminar continued with a presentation on the new trends in construction by Jinwoo Kim, representing Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co.’s Research and Development Centre, who was flown over from Korea.

A Sri Lankan who presently is a Lecturer at Curtin University Australia Dr. Chamila Ramanayake introduced the audience to a growing requirement in the industry which was on BIM applications in design, procurement and construction which is a growing requirement in the industry. New innovative products in cement based construction materials were presented to the audience by Tokyo Cement Group. The seminar which was totally hosted by them had many positive reviews by participants. The Chamber of Construction Industry Sri Lanka regularly holds seminars of public interest in the realm of construction. Interested parties may peruse the chamber website ‘www.ccisrilanka.org’ and gather information of forthcoming events and also of other matters of interest.