“…Due to the increment in the construction of industrial buildings in par with the economic development in Sri Lanka, steel building construction has become popular in the country (Perera et al , 2019). Along with that, number of studies have been conducted to optimise the effective use of steel for building construction in the Sri Lankan context (Lewangamage and Kularathna, 2015; Chandrathilaka et al ., 2019). Despite these research have been conducted to test and simulate the mechanical and chemical properties of steel, performance controlling, cost optimising, construction methodology related to steel building construction and lack of a study which outlines a suitable procurement system to procure steel buildings could be observed.…”