Managing Heritage Conservation Projects in Relation with Quantity Surveying Profession: The Case of Malaysia

Norhanim Zakaria,Umi Kalsum Zolkafli,Siti Nor Azniza Ahmad Sekak,Ismail Rahmat

doi:10.22452/jdbe.sp2017no1.8

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Heritage buildings are deteriorating due to time, lack of care, high maintenance cost and lack of comprehensive guidelines and understanding on the management practices. Conservation is the only process that can protect heritage buildings from deterioration. Integrated teams of highly qualified professionals have to be involved in conservation of heritage buildings. As one of the main players in heritage conservation projects, quantity surveyors should develop an in-depth knowledge of heritage buildings, conservation process, specifications and requirements by local and international authority. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to establish relationship of heritage conservation and quantity surveyor competency. This aim is achieved through the following objectives; to identify the features of heritage buildings, to identify the competency of quantity surveyors in heritage building conservation projects and to establish relationships between heritage conservation projects and quantity surveyors’ competency. Quantitative method was chosen for this study. The respondents were from the quantity surveyors who are registered with Board of Surveyors Malaysia and has experienced in building conservation project. SPSS (Descriptive Statistic) and PLS were used to analyze the data. Result showed that there is strong relationship between features of heritage building and quantity surveyors’ competency.

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Heritage buildings are deteriorate due to time, lack of care, high maintenance cost, lack of comprehensive guidelines and lack of understanding the management practices (Forsyth, 2007; Idrus, Khamidi, & Sodangi, 2010)
The aim of this paper is to establish relationship of heritage conservation and quantity surveyors’ competency. This aim is achieved through the following objectives; to identify the features of heritage building, to identify the competency of quantity surveyors in building conservation projects and to establish relationships between heritage conservation projects and quantity surveyors’ competency
The respondents were asked the features of heritage building and competency of quantity surveyors in building conservation project

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Heritage buildings are deteriorate due to time, lack of care, high maintenance cost, lack of comprehensive guidelines and lack of understanding the management practices (Forsyth, 2007; Idrus, Khamidi, & Sodangi, 2010). Conservation is the only process that can protect heritage buildings from deterioration. Research by Hegazy (2014) shows that, an integrated team of highly qualified professionals have to be involved in conservation of heritage buildings. Conservation of heritage buildings is a very complex and unique process (Lee & Lim, 2010; Said, Akshah, & Ismail, 2013). It contain more technical and economic uncertainty (Reyers & Mansfield, 2001). Wahab, & Ahmad, (2008); Mohamed, Ahmad, & Ismail, (2002); Siti Nor Fatimah Zuraidi, Zainal Abidin Akasah, (2011) found that, there are still lack of technical knowledge and training among the professionals who involved in conservation of heritage buildings

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