Fueling Innovation Through Funding
The Department of Civil Engineering promotes impactful research by offering targeted internal and external research grants. These grants support innovative projects in areas like structural safety, sustainable construction, and environmental engineering.
Funding enables academic staff and students to access research tools, attend global conferences, and publish in reputed journals, strengthening research capabilities while encouraging real-world contributions to the civil engineering field.
Available Grants
Transportation Engineering
Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research
Ecological rehabilitation of canals in Colombo: a design to harmonies flood control and physical heterogeneity
National Research Council, Sri Lanka
Development of a model and database to estimate national-level fuel consumption and emissions in the transport sector
Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research
Development of a tool to conduct environmental life cycle assessment of buildings
National Research Council, Sri Lanka
A Composition and a method of seepage control using fibrous material
National Research Council & Soil Tech (Pvt) Ltd.
Characteristics of peaty soils and their engineering properties
Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research
Improvement of the peaty soils and assessing the degree of improvement
Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research
Identification of the defects in bored and cast in-situ piles installed through thick peaty soil deposits and remedial actions
Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research
Life cycle modelling of buildings
Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research