Application of Soft Landings concept in Sri Lanka to narrow the building performance gap, enablers and barriers

What is it about?

Like in many other countries, in Sri Lanka, minimal attention is paid to the performance of a building after it has been taken over by its end-user. Hence, a gap often exists between the actual performance of the building and its predicted performance. This performance gap led to the origin of the Soft Landings (SL) frameworkby Building Services Research Information Association. The applications of SL have been studied only in contexts like Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom although optimal building performance is being discussed extensively all over the world. Thus, this paper aimed to determine the possibility of applying SL to building construction projects in Sri Lanka.

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