Façade Safety
Advance Façades & Glazing Failures About the Author:
Eng. Dasun Siriwardena, Head of Design & Engineering/ Manager projects, L & S Wallspan (Pvt) Ltd.
‘A façade is a building’s primary exterior face. It generally includes the main entry to the building and has the most elaborate architectural features. As the most public face of a building, a façade is particularly important to your business. Studies have shown that thoughtful design improvements often lead to greater sales for a business by attracting more customers’. (Façade design in dialogue, 2013)
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Dasun Siriwardena is a façade design engineer with over 11 years of experience. After completing his engineering from D.S. Senanayake College, Colombo in the year 2005, he joined polytechnic college for design engineering draftsmanship. Later he worked as a design engineering technical officer for façades, quantity surveyor for façades, project manager and construction engineer. Starting from the conceptual façade design stage to structural analysing, detailing, simulating, quantity surveying and managing construction of the façades, he has been working with various projects in Sri Lanka, Maldives, U.A.E, Oman, Iran and Africa. Dasun is passionate about his work and has been discovering façade engineering as a highly specialized and rare field in the structural engineering sector.