{"id":24035,"date":"2025-09-26T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/?p=24035"},"modified":"2025-11-02T19:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:03:20","slug":"invention-competition-for-housing-and-construction-2025-awarding-ceremony-at-engex2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/invention-competition-for-housing-and-construction-2025-awarding-ceremony-at-engex2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Invention Competition for Housing and Construction 2025 Awarding Ceremony at EngEX2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The awarding ceremony of the Invention Competition for Housing and Construction \u2013 Central<br>Province was held on 26th September 2025 at the E.O.E. Pereira Theatre, Faculty of Engineering,<br>University of Peradeniya. The Chief Guest of the event was Prof. Sarath Abeykoon, Hon. Governor of<br>the Central Province. The ceremony was also graced by Prof. Ranjith Pallegama, Acting Vice-<br>Chancellor; Prof. Lilantha Samaranayake, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering; Prof. Kushan<br>Wijesundara, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering; Mr. G.H.M.A. Premasinghe, Chief<br>Secretary of the Central Provincial Council; Mrs. Dileepa Rupani Piyadasa, Secretary of the Ministry<br>of Road Development, Transport, Power and Energy, Housing and Construction; and Mr. Kanishka<br>Wadugoda, Commissioner of the Central Provincial Housing Department.<br>A total of seven innovations six in the school category and one in the open category, received<br>awards, while 14 merit awards and 41 certificates of participation were also presented. The event<br>was jointly organized by the Provincial Housing Department of the Central Province and the<br>Department of Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The awarding ceremony of the Invention Competition for Housing and Construction \u2013 CentralProvince was held on 26th September 2025 at the E.O.E. Pereira Theatre, Faculty of Engineering,University of Peradeniya. The Chief Guest of the event was Prof. Sarath Abeykoon, Hon. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/civileng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}