Dr. Nilmini Weerasinghe
Details
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Department: School of Engineering
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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nilmini.weerasinghe@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-2722-6531
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr. Nilmini Weerasinghe is a Lecturer in Digital and Sustainable Construction, Civil and Infrastructure Engineering at RMIT University, Australia.
She specializes in smart construction, digital technologies, and sustainability, with a strong research focus on Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), asset management, lifecycle assessments, and circular economy principles in the built environment. Her expertise spans machine learning, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), Building Information Modeling (BIM), digital twins, and data-driven decision-making for sustainable construction.
Supervisor projects
- Land-water-energy-climate change nexus for optimizing resource use efficiencies and build resilience
- 20 Feb 2025
- Predicting the vulnerability of road pavements subjected to landslides
- 10 Dec 2024
- IoT Technology Integration for Advancing Material Circularity in Construction Projects
- 14 Mar 2024
- Predictive modeling of building degradation as influenced by contributing factors
- 29 Feb 2024
Teaching interests
OENG1254: Digital Transformation for Sustainable Construction
CIVE1255: Infrastructure Planning and Management
CIVE1254: Asset Management
Research interests
Smart Construction, Digital Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things (IoT), Building Information Modeling (BIM), Digital Twin, Circular Economy and Sustainability. Lifecycle Assessment, Solar Building Envelope, Asset Management
