Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career
Section: Overview
Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Sustainable built environment
  • Construction management
  • Building energy simulation
  • Construction digitisation
  • Facility life cycle costing

Not available to supervise research students

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About Kumudu Weththasinghe

Kumudu Weththasinghe is an researcher, academic and a quantity surveyor with expertise in the built environment, sustainability, life cycle assessment, computer modelling and modern methods of construction and digitalisation. Her research focuses on life cycle environmental assessment and performance and cost management in the built environment, from material level to building level. She focuses on delivering practical research outcomes that have the potential to inform decision-making in the construction industry.
 
Kumudu is currently engaged as a lecturer in Construction Management at Victoria University. In this position, she is developing/teaching new as well as existing courses that focus on effective construction project management and project delivery integrating environmental design, sustainability and cost management aspects. She inform her teaching by research and practical experience in Australia and Sri Lanka.
 
Kumudu's research has been published across several internationally recognized journals and conference proceedings. Her doctoral degree was awarded Chartered Institute of Building Research Award for excellence in building research.

Qualifications

  • PhD, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2020
  • BSc (Hons), University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2014

Key publications

Year Citation
2020 Weththasinghe, K. K., Stephan, A., Francis, V., & Tiwari, P. (200101). Use of an object-oriented system for optimizing life cycle embodied energy and life cycle material cost of shopping centres (pp. 247-257).

doi: 10.1007/978-981-32-9868-2_21

Year Citation
2021 WETHTHASINGHE, K., Wijayasundara, M., Akash, A., Harding, T., & Mahbube, S. (210402). Environmental footprint of wood and plastic as packaging materials: An Australian case WCWM.
2019 Weththasinghe, K. K. (190101). The significance of the life cycle embodied energy in shopping centres in Australia Paper presented at Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, CRIOCM 2017 (pp. 305-315).
2016 WETHTHASINGHE, K. UMUDU., Gajendran, T., & Brewer, G. (160708). Barriers in proper implementation of Public Partnerships (PPP) in Sri Lanka (pp. 858-869). Australasian Universities Building Education Association (AUBEA).
2015 Benaragama, M., Karunasena, G. I., & WETHTHASINGHE, K. (151212). Analysis on Procurement Systems for Alteration Building Projects in Sri Lanka In Rajapaksha, U. (Ed.), Faculty of Architecture Research Unit.

Year Citation
2023 Weththasinghe, K. K., & Wong, P. SP. (230104). Towards developing partnership models for leveraging design for manufacture and assembly for school buildings. Proceedings of Institution of Civil Engineers: Management, Procurement and Law, 177(2), (75-90).

doi: 10.1680/jmapl.22.00042
2022 Tariq, M. AUR., Alotaibi, R., Weththasinghe, K. K., & Rajabi, Z. (221201). A detailed perspective of water resource management in a dry and water scarce country: The case in Kuwait. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10

doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.1073834
2022 Curmi, L., Weththasinghe, K. K., & Tariq, M. AUR. (221101). Global Policy Review on Embodied Flows: Recommendations for Australian Construction Sector. Sustainability (Switzerland), 14(21),

doi: 10.3390/su142114628
2022 Weththasinghe, K. K., Stephan, A., Francis, V., & Tiwari, P. (220901). Improving material selection in shopping centres through a parametric life cycle embodied flow and material cost analysis model. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 165

doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2022.112530
2022 Weththasinghe, K. K., Akash, A., Harding, T., Subhani, M., & Wijayasundara, M. (220820). Carbon footprint of wood and plastic as packaging materials - An Australian case of pallets. Journal of Cleaner Production, 363

doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132446

Research funding for the past 5 years

Funding details for this researcher are currently unavailable.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the following organisations for their support and essential contributions to my research:

  • The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne Research Scholarship

Supervision of research students at VU

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Teaching activities & experience

Kumudu is Unit Coordinator of the following VU units:

  • NBC2006 Professional Estimating 
  • NBC3004 Construction Economics
  • NBC3101 Project Management Practice

Awards

Year Award
2020

Chartered Institute of Building Research Award - Chartered Institute of Building

Professional memberships

  • Graduate Member, Institute of Quantity Surveyors Sri Lanka