Sunday, 4 February 2018

CIVIL TALKS – 2017 (Phase 03)

The third phase of the annual panel discussion was held on the 26th of October 2017 at 10.00am at the Civil auditorium. The event was chaired by Dr.Panchy Arumugasaamy, head of  the Structural Division of the Ribway Engineering Group and the discussion was titled as “Design and Construction of Transportation Structures”.  The event was well attended by many instructors, students from 3 batches along with the esteemed presence of the head of the department, Prof.J.M.S.J.Bandara as well as senior lecturers Dr.C.S.Lewangamage, Prof.S.M.A.Nanayakkara, Prof.L.L.Ekanayake, Prof.K.Baskaran and  Dr.C.Siriwardhana.

With the welcome speech the panel discussion started its proceedings. As the topic implies the purpose of this discussion was to provide exposure through conversation on both recent literature reviews and the personal experience of the panelist who is working on developing reinvigorated methods that can be implemented in the design and construction of transportation structures.

The panelist went on discussing a series of contemporary competencies in design and construction of transport infrastructure and the attendees were encouraged to embrace the novelty, gullibility, development and maturation of them as the attendees will have to collaborate with these methods as they move forward in the field.


The panelist also went on discussing a range of perspectives and methods of facilitating the incorporation of new engineering concepts into individual engineers and the industry in general. The layout of the discussion was about 90 minutes followed by a brief Q&A session to engage audience and panelist for about 10 minutes.


In overall the discussion is highly appropriate and appreciated by the attendees as the knowledge gained by the discussion will be in greater assistance when providing consensus for projects that will come forth. 




 The attendees were served with refreshments as the discussion came to an end with the presenting of a token of appreciation to the panelist by the head of the department Prof.J.M.S.J.Bandara along with the vote of thanks delivered by Dr.C.Siriwardhana.

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