The 12th World Construction Symposium 

9–10 AUGUST 2024

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Call for Papers

Full Paper Submissions

Important Dates

Empowering Construction Industry: Towards Sustainable Development Goals

The Ceylon Institute of Builders (CIOB) and Building Economics and Management Research Unit (BEMRU), Department of Building Economics, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka are jointly organising the 12th World Construction Symposium from 9-10 August 2024. This annual symposium will provide a special forum for researchers and practitioners in the areas of built environment and construction industry related research worldwide to share their knowledge, experiences and research findings. The symposium is intended to be held physically. However, the international participants are given the opportunity to attend the symposium in hybrid mode.

WCS full papers are indexed in Scopus since 2019.

Papers accepted and presented at the symposium will be published in symposium proceedings with an ISSN.

Awards:
The Ceylon Institute of Builders (CIOB) and the Built Environment Project and Asset Management (BEPAM), a journal published by Emerald Group Publishing, have arranged the following awards for the author(s) of outstanding papers of the symposium:
• CIOB Best paper award
• CIOB Highly commended paper award
• BEPAM Best paper award
• Two (02) BEPAM Highly commended paper awards

Key Dates

CALL FOR PAPERS

20 February 2024

FULL PAPER SUBMISSION

31 March 2024

NOTIFICATION OF FULL PAPER ACCEPTANCE

31 May 2024

CAMERA READY PAPER

15 June 2024

REGISTRATION ON OR BEFORE

30 June 2024

SYMPOSIUM DATEs

09-10 August 2024

Discover Sri Lanka

Ranked as the best travel destination in 2019 by Lonely Planet

Ancient City of Sigiriya

TEMPLE OF THE TOOTH RELIC

Sacred City of Anuradhapura

Elephant Orphanage - Pinnawala

Yala National Wildlife Park

Hikkaduwa Beach, Galle

Our Partners & Sponsors

WCS Organizers
WCS Associate Partners
Indexing

Bronze Sponsors

Get In Touch

SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION AND OTHER INFORMATION

(+94) 11 2508139 (Rohana)
[email protected]
Ceylon Institute of Builders (CIOB), 4–1/2, Bambalapitiya Drive, Colombo 04, Sri Lanka

SYMPOSIUM PAPER PROCESSING AND SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

(+94) 75 044 5566 (Isuru Eranga)
[email protected]
Department of Building Economics, Faculty of Architecture, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka