About
Dr. Nilmini Weerasinghe is a Lecturer in Digital and Sustainable Construction within the School of Engineering at RMIT University, Australia. Her research focuses on smart construction, digital technologies, and sustainability, particularly in Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), asset management, lifecycle assessments, and circular economy principles. She integrates machine learning, AI, IoT, BIM, and digital twins into sustainable construction practices.
Teaching interests include Digital Transformation for Sustainable Construction, Infrastructure Planning and Management, and Asset Management. She supervises research projects addressing land-water-energy-climate nexus, road pavement vulnerability, IoT-driven material circularity, and predictive building degradation modeling.
Research outputs span BIPV design frameworks, multi-criteria performance tools, deep learning applications in infrastructure monitoring, and stakeholder management in green construction projects. Her work emphasizes data-driven decision-making and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
