Factors Contributing to Building Maintenance Performance of Heritage Buildings

Abstract

An assessment of the building maintenance performance for heritage building is critical to determine whether the routine procedure of work meet the prescribed requirements. Malaysia has been initiating the conservation works for old and heritage building approximately 4 decades ago. The awareness of maintenance managers of heritage buildings are slowly increasing but still need to improve their understanding on what shall be done in order to obtain the best practice approach in heritage building maintenance management. The lack of maintenance also makes the starting point of structural deterioration problem and will require millions of ringgits to repair, rehabilitate and conserve the effected buildings and structures. The study will evaluate the significant factors that contribute to maintenance performance of heritage building in Malaysia. Research data will be collected through questionnaire form, interview and site observation. The collected data will be analyzed by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) software to examine the structure of interrelationships among constructs (the dependent and independent variables). Expected outcome is to recommend the most critical factors that will influence the maintenance management system and give significant correlation between the building deterioration variables in heritage building maintenance. Thus, be able to use the significant variables in developing the building maintenance model to support the management maintenance system for heritage building in Malaysia.