Sri Lanka: Towards a safer construction industry

The Daily News of Sri Lanka reports on the National Building Research Organization (NBRO), now part of the Disaster Management and Human Rights Ministry, catering for new areas of disaster management, disaster risk reduction and landslide mitigation.

The landslide studies project developed by the Chief Technical advisor of the NBRO/UNDP led to the Landslide Hazard Mapping Project. The study team noted the importance of establishing a system to map the landslide prone area of the country and highlighted this by developing a mapping methodology. Today these maps are effectively used in development planning, project approval, landslide risk reduction and mitigation projects.