Virama Ekanayaka
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About
Virama Ekanayaka is an emerging researcher at the forefront of construction automation and additive manufacturing, with a particular focus on 3D concrete printing and robotic fabrication systems. Their work addresses some of the most pressing challenges facing the modern construction industry: the need to scale up building production while simultaneously reducing material waste and carbon emissions. Ekanayaka's most notable contributions center on developing intelligent frameworks for large-scale automated concrete printing using industrial robots. Their 2024 paper on Multi-Model based Additive Manufacturing introduced a pioneering approach to planning, automating, and controlling complex 3D printing processes — tackling previously unresolved challenges in manufacturing multi-walled structural components. Complementing this, their 2025 research on Shotcrete 3D Printing demonstrated how digitally designed, functionally integrated elements can be translated into real-world multi-storey structures, bridging the gap between computational design and physical construction. Both papers have each accumulated 6 citations, a strong early indicator of impact for such recently published work. Ekanayaka's research represents a significant step toward industrializing digital construction workflows, making them a researcher to watch in the rapidly evolving field of automated and sustainable building technologies.
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