Better building...

million to start constructing a pharmaceutical research and production facility at the SLINTEC Nanotechnology Park in Pitipana, Homagama. After the amalgamation, Morison would have three subsidiaries or associates: MSJ Cargoes (Ceylon) (Private) Limited, MSJ Promotional Services (Private) Limited and Agranta (Private) Limited.

The Hemas group owns 90.7 percent of the shares in Morison. to create laboratory environments in a ‘physics envy’, which may diminish the potential of economics.

Dr. Rajapaksha said that unless efficient buildings, which maximize the contribution of solar panels, are designed, it won’t matter even if every inch of a badly designed building is covered with solar panels.

She noted that most engineers ignore this grass root problem when analysing the electricity problems in the country. “Our building energy indices are so high. In developing countries, they are at 120 kilowatt hours per square metre per annum. We are exceeding 400 in some of the buildings. Unimaginable,” she said.

She said that to adhere to the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement on climate change, Sri Lanka will have to set milestones and achieve them.

“This is a global issue, a humanity issue. How did other countries go forward? Australia has a rating system, with milestones for 2010, 2020. Similarly, we can’t do overnight. We need to set milestones and achieve them,” she said.(cw)