Lakshitha Shamal Fernando

Project Researcher

Biography

Lakshitha Shamal Fernando is currently working as a Research Assistant at the University of Moratuwa under TRANSCEND project. Lakshitha is a research scholar who is independently involved in research and publication activities and has worked as a research assistant in the MOBILISE project in the last few months. He has eight months of industry experience as a Quantity Surveyor at Sanken Construction (Pvt) Ltd and VICM Consultants (Pvt) Ltd and is involved in his own construction activities.

Lakshitha works as a visiting lecturer at the College of Quantity Surveying in Sri Lanka. As a research scholar, he has published his first publication in 2022 and won 3rd place in the IQSSL student article competition. Meanwhile, he is working on various conference papers and a journal paper that is related to disaster resilience, sustainable construction, and digital twin in construction.

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Contribution to the TRANSCEND project

WP 02 (Engagement of vulnerable community) and WP 03 (Collaborative foresight and decision-making platform).

PhD Thesis Topic – Application of agile principles to improve disaster resilience.

CIOB publication – Critical assessment of the existing disaster resilience frameworks and their applicability on community development.

Journal paper – A systematic literature review on characteristics of disaster resilience for improved disaster management practices.