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The Malaysian Surveyor
Table 2: Information on case studies
The main objectives of maintenance Case studies
management is to ensure that
the physical resources are always Criteria G1 G2 N1 N2
productive and reliable. According
to Queensland Government (2012), Gazette Gazetted Non-Gazetted
governmental building should plan a Status by Heritage Building Heritage Building
maintenance strategy that incorporates National
the balance of planned and unplanned Heritage Category Category Category 3 None
maintenance in order to implement Department 2 1
the maintenance works effectively, Heritage Public
while planned maintenance defined Public Public Private 1917
as maintenance works done based on zone 1893 1904 1896 1917
predetermined intervals, and unplanned classification
maintenance only carried out after failure 1929 1907 1916
of building components[8]. For planned by KLCH
maintenance system, there are two (2) Ownership 85 107 98 97
types of maintenance, namely preventive
maintenance and corrective maintenance. Year of
establishment
According to guidelines provided
by Ministry of Finance (2007), Year of
implementation of public building construction
maintenance as stated in General Building age
order No.2 Year 2007, there is a list of of heritage
maintenance scope that are entitled to
budget allocation from the government, block
which are:-
of entitlement of annual budget, it is not 3.0 Research
a) Repainting works on building or any prioritised to get assistance for these Methodology
equipment’s maintenance works.
This research aims to determine the
b) Maintenance of fencing, boundary, According to National Heritage issues and challenges on implementation
security post & entrance Department (2012), a heritage building of maintenance works in heritage school
has outstanding universal value from building. In order to achieve this aim, the
c) Maintenance of flooring, wall, and the point of view of history, architectural researcher will look into the perspective
building façade significances, or homogeneity of their of maintenance management, awareness
place in the landscape.[9] Old school on occupants in implementation of
d) Maintenance of roof, tiles, rainwater building with colonial architectures can maintenance works, and also detailed
good & drainage system be considered as one of the heritage condition survey of all the selected
buildings due to early development of building. Hence, these three (3) methods
e) Maintenance and repair of toilet, education in Malaysia and significant will be used to achieve those objective, the
piping system and sewerage colonial architectural value. National findings will be analysed as to find out the
Heritage department is not only issues and challenges.
f) Maintenance of electrical system conserving built environment, but
g) Maintenance of perimeter drain and also helping the owners to protect the In this research, the study will focus on
heritage building condition. It proves that heritage school building in Kuala Lumpur.
drainage system this department might have influences Hence, there are four (4) heritage school
h) Maintenance of driveway and pave- and impacts towards the building building with various criteria, especially
maintenance works in heritage school National Heritage declaratory status,
ment building. year of built and establishment, and also
i) Maintenance of landscape building ownership were selected. The
National Heritage department also has detail of chosen case studies are shown
Under the same guideline, Clause 4 the responsibility to enforce the provision in Table 2.
stated that public buildings which the under National Heritage Act 2005, which
maintenance budget is not allocated it includes some of the sections related It is believed that selection of case studies
annually by the government has limited to building maintenance after National with different characteristics will generate
opportunities to be entitled to get budget Heritage declaration. The sections that a more reliable and outstanding outcome
allocation for the maintenance task may influence the heritage building to this research, as these characteristics
above. It means that if the public school maintenance is shown in Table 1. [10]
buildings are not listed under school lists
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