Techno Sri Lanka 2016, the National Engineering and Technology Exhibition organized by the apex body for the engineering profession the country, the IESL, for the 31st consecutive year, concluded on Sunday, 9th October, 2016 after three days of exposition of innovative and cutting edge engineering products and services. Eng. Nihal Rupasinghe, Secrertary to the Ministry of Megapolis and Western Development declared open the exhibition on the first day while Hon. Patalai Champika Ranawaka, Minister of Megapolis and Western Development himself did the honour on the second day of the exhibition. Hon. Ajith P. Perera, Deputy Minister of Power and Renewable Energy opened it on the third and final day.

The exhibition lived up to the expectations of the large number of visitors from all walks of like including school children. Leading manufacturers and service providers of international brands represented by local agents, private sector and public sector organizations were very innovative in their displays of novel engineering products and services.

Universities and other higher education institutions, sectional committees and provincial chapters of the IESL displayed their talents and depictions of engineering related development activities in their respective disciplines and regions The “Building Clinic” giving free advice to visitors engaged in building of their own house and the “Car Clinic” both of which have become permanent features of the exhibition were as usual were a big draw. So was the Free Seminar Sessions offered by the Civil Engineering Sectional Committee.

The Members Lounge where members of the IESL and their families visiting the exhibition are entertained proved to be an enormous success as it did in the previous years.