Techno 2011 in October

Charumini de Silva

“It would be important to focus on green engineering jobs, which are going to help promote growth as the global culture keeps reaching out and expanding more than ever before. We are truly starting to become a part of a global village and as a result, we need to direct our growth in environmentally friendly ways,” Techno 2011 President, Ananda Ranasinghe said.

“Green engineering jobs are going to play a key role in the way that we develop into the future.

These jobs are going to be the key elements towards our overall success with turning into a self-sustaining culture. This will help us to construct practices, systems and products that are going to use recycled materials and sustainable resources. The more we start to rely on these varied types of engineering practices, the better we should start to understand how turning to a green culture is going to be beneficial to everyone,” he said.

He said “When we allow green engineering jobs to become more prominent, there will be more of a market for these eco-friendly jobs, which will create more supply and demand. Thus, the old ways of production are going to be phased out. It is timely and important that everyone starts to take steps, which are going to play into the promotion and success of these green engineering jobs.

That will mean buying products that come out of a green manufacturing method and looking for eco-friendly jobs when they are available. “Sri Lanka should focus on a balance of technological and scientific adoption to uplift and enhance the engineering industry, while identifying the necessity of the industry.

With the rapidly evolving technologies it is vital to adopt the less labour intensive technology to minimize the cost of production and construction time. We are still using very high labour intensive technology, which generates a high cost of production and high time consumption,” Ranasinghe said.

In keeping in line with the latest technologies in the engineering industry, it is essential to deviate and provide product differentiation to be competitive and uplift the standards.

The industry stakeholders should consider the standardizations of products that are being used for construction. In utilizing the technologies and products the industry need to consider the durability of it, while ensuring that the built will help the economic development of the country, he said.

The Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL) will hold its annual exhibition Techno 2011 for the 26th consecutive year under the theme Engineering today, tomorrow and Beyond on October 7, 8 and 9 at the BMICH with over 200 stalls. The President said Techno 2011 would not merely be another traditional exhibition. Instead, it would harness the talents, skills and experiences of the stakeholders to have a better interaction facilitating mutual awareness of their resources and potential.