COMPANY STAFF

Mr. W.G.R.S. Jayawardene

Managing Director.

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He has worked in the many foreign companies over 10 years as a Senior Laboratory Technician for vast Irrigation & Highway projects carried out all over the Island. During his working period as a Senior Laboratory Technician he has gained the experience on Engineering Material Testing, Concrete Testing, Engineering Field Tests such as Standard Penetration Test, Cone Penetration Test, California Bearing Ratios (Field & Lab), Field Density Tests etc and Laboratory Tests on Soil, Rock & Aggregates and Concrete. His work experience covers, management of geotechnical investigations, adopting geo-physical techniques in exploration, co-ordinating and inspection 0f all geotechnical investigations on both on-shore and off shore this included drilling/ testing of sea bed sediments, laboratory testing and interpretation, with environmental considerations.

Prof. H.S. Thilakasiri

Dean/Engineering & Senior Professor.
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING | CIVIL ENGINEERING.

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Prof. B.L. Tennekoon

BSc Eng(Cey),PhD(Cantab),CEng,FIE(Sri Lanka).
Senior Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa.

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Basil Laliputra Tennekoon is a Senior Professor of Civil Engineering. He graduated from the University of Ceylon in 1965 with a 1st Class Honours degree. He proceeded to the University of Cambridge, UK in September 1966; from which university he was awarded the Ph.D. in April 1970 for research work carried out in the field of Geotechnical Engineering. After the completion of his Ph.D., he joined the University again as a Lecturer. At this time there was only a single university, and the Faculty of Engineering was located at Peradeniya. He remained at Peradeniya until 1975; and he was one of four staff members who launched the first post-graduate course in the Faculty of Engineering in 1972. In 1975, he transferred to Moratuwa, which had then become another university. He obtained successive promotions within the university culminating as Professor in 1984. The post of Senior Professor was established in the university system in 1995; whereupon he was promoted to this grade. He was a former Head of the Department of Civil Engineering for 6 years from 1979 to 1985; and was also the elected Dean of the Faculty of Engineering for a period of 10 months in 1994/1995. Prof. Tennekoon was a founder member of the Sri Lankan Geotechnical Society in 1986. He held the post of Secretary from 1986 to 1994; and then became the President of the society in 1994, which post he held until 2000. Prof. Tennekoon has maintained close links with the engineering profession during his career. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka; and he was a member of the Institution’s Education and Training Committee for over 20 years. He spent the first six months of his first sabbatical in 1977 working on a Highway Project in Libya; and then completed his sabbatical year while working with the Consultancy Division of the State Engineering Corporation of Sri Lanka. He is a leading consultant in the field of geotechnical engineering; and he has advised numerous State Sector and Private Sector Organizations on foundations for buildings, water supply schemes, oil tanks, etc. in difficult ground conditions. Prof. Tennekoon’s second sabbatical was in 1987 when he worked at the University of Edinburgh as a Commonwealth Research Fellow studying the behaviour of soft clays. In April 2003, he was invited by the Government of Sri Lanka to be part of a team for implementing a World Bank funded project for the Improvement of Relevance and Quality of Undergraduate Education (IRQUE). This was a 6-year project where the major component was the establishment of a Quality Enhancement Fund (QEF) whose objectives were to develop concepts of accountability and sustainability within the university system. He was in charge of implementing the QEF component, where for the first time a competitive funding scheme was designed and implemented to enhance the quality and relevance of undergraduate study programs. Competing Study Programs had to prepare proposals which also addressed issues of efficiency; quality enhancement of learning/teaching process, including relevance of current academic offerings, and thereby increase the employability of graduates. Grants amounting to a total of around US $ 20 Million were awarded to 27 Study Programs, which were selected from over 150 Study Programs which participated in the competition.

Dr. Gobithas Tharmarajah

Senior Lecturer (HG) & Executive Director/Value Engineering Cell.
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING | CIVIL ENGINEERING.

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Application of natural, steel and plastic fibres in advanced concrete such as Fiber Reinforced Concrete (FRC)

Application of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) reinforcement in civil infrastructure to enhance sustainability

Nonlinear analysis of Composite Structures

Modular Structures

Non-Destructive Evaluation of Concrete Structures for Corrosion

Structural Analysis

Structural Design

Engineering Mechanics

University Associate - Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University of Technology, Australia, 2016 – date

Senior Treasurer – Faculty of Engineering, SLIIT, 2013 – Date

Structural Consultant - MVIVO (Pvt) Ltd., December 2018 – December 2022

Visiting Senior Lecturer - Faculty of Engineering, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Oluvil, Sri Lanka, 2016 – 2019

Chief Technology Officer – MVIVO (Pvt) Ltd., October 2020 – October 2021

Acting Head – Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, June 2016 – October 2016

Research Engineer - Athlone Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland, July 2011 – Nov. 2012

Postgraduate Researcher – Queen’s University Belfast, Sep 2007 – Jan. 2010

CAD Designer Intern - The Culver Group Inc., California, U.S.A., May 2007 – Sep. 2007

Trainee Structural Engineering - Stems Consultants (Pte) Ltd., Sri Lanka, Feb. 2005 – Aug. 2005