A Review of the Maintenance Performance Factors for Heritage Buildings

Abstract

The building maintenance programme is the important part of the building life cycle. All planned or unplanned maintenance programme are designed to maintain the originality and conditions for the specific building. The comprehensive planning and evaluation processes of building maintenance performance for heritage building is crucial in determining the best practice and procedure in order to meet the prescribed requirements. The awareness programme among involve parties is needed to strengthen their basic understanding about the importance of maintaining the heritage buildings. The lack of maintenance scope and procedure in heritage building is considered as a non-sustainable result to the existing building condition. This lacking situation will be the initial cause of building defect and deterioration problems and have to allocate a lot of money in order to repair and rehabilitate the selected heritage buildings. The aims of this study are to identify and review the related issues of building maintenance performance for heritage buildings. The review will also reveal the identified significant factors which are giving an influence to the building maintenance performance for heritage buildings. The building maintenance performance has considered as one of the major issues in heritage buildings in order to prolong its life expectancy. This paper reviews the previous significant factors in building maintenance performance in heritage building. The relevant significant factors should be considered during planning phase of the maintenance programme.