{"id":55023,"date":"2016-05-26T17:02:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T00:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55023"},"modified":"2016-05-26T17:02:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T00:02:13","slug":"sri-lanka-will-enact-a-new-nationwide-building-code-news-item-workable-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/05\/26\/sri-lanka-will-enact-a-new-nationwide-building-code-news-item-workable-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka will enact a new, nationwide building code,,,,,,,,,,\u00a0 news item -Workable solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>DR Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>News item captioned above drew my attention and reminded me of Holland which lies below mean-sea level where Houses are built on floating barges to facilitate floating<\/p>\n<p>In Thailand they build on stilts and have a boat to reach the house<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-55024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/waterhouse.jpg\" alt=\"waterhouse\" width=\"416\" height=\"312\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-55025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/waterhouse2.jpg\" alt=\"waterhouse2\" width=\"431\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I suggest that all the houses to be built on the land by the side of Kelani Velly which went under water this \u00a0year should be built on floating platforms .<\/p>\n<p>These platforms are built in the box shapes made of concrete or Fibre Glass if they are small<\/p>\n<p>The box of rectangular shape or caratmaran type box or ,cylinder structture\u00a0 may be built where water tank and sewage tanks\u00a0 can be accommodated. It Should have enough buoyancy to carry the weight of the house and the contents and mounted on few concrete stumps<\/p>\n<p>River \/Canal overflowing will be annual event \u00a0,hence such structure built with lighter material can be the ideal solution for replacing the houses which can be pre-fabricated and assembled on site<\/p>\n<p>During a flood it should float and the people and the content can be safe until water subsides<\/p>\n<p>NBRO should get together with Association of Contractors with Shipyards can work out such a design at a minimum cost<\/p>\n<p>DR Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DR Sarath Obeysekera News item captioned above drew my attention and reminded me of Holland which lies below mean-sea level where Houses are built on floating barges to facilitate floating In Thailand they build on stilts and have a boat to reach the house I suggest that all the houses to be built on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}