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Issues and Challenges Faced by School Authorities in Maintenance of Institutional Heritage Buildings In Kuala Lumpur
Vol.50 No.2 2015

might bring impact to the implementation the heritage blocks of the school in order 4.0 Data Collection
of maintenance in these school building. to record the existing condition of the And Analysis
heritage block through CPS1 method. To
Three (3) different types of information summarise, the targeted population and 4.1 Review on maintenance
will be obtained in order to achieve sampling to obtain relevant information is management practices
the objectives. Detailed interview will shown in Figure 1.
be conducted with the appointed The characteristics of heritage school
maintenance personnel in each case However, the aim of this research is to building, comprising of National Heritage
study to obtain information maintenance determine the issues and challenges of declaratory status, ownership, person
management or system in their respective maintenance implementation in heritage in charge for maintenance, building
school. Besides, specific population in school building, and hence, issues and occupants, documentation method, and
the school will be chosen to undergo challenges will be analysed through funding sources will be analysed and
questionnaires study on their perception the findings, and cross-analysed or tabulated in Table 3.
on implementation of maintenance works. synthesised to get determine the actual

Last, condition survey will be conducted in problem on maintenance implementation. There are four (4) heritage school

buildings taken into this comparison, the

Gazetted Heritage Schools are labelled

as G1 and G2 while the Non-Gazetted

heritage school is labelled as N1 and N2.

Table 3: Overview on maintenance management practice The information is adapted based on the
occupancy in heritage block only. First of

Characteristic Description Case studies all, only N2 is owned by the government,
Heritage Gazetted G1 G2 N1 N2 while the others are owned by the non-
√√ governmental organisations in Malaysia.

status Non-Gazetted √√ However, it does not affect the school

Category of Category 1 √ operations in terms of learning and
Category 2 √ teaching syllabus, as everything is still
heritage Category 3 under control and legislated by Ministry of
√ Education (MOE).
building None √
(DBKL) National
√

Type of school Government aided √√

Non-Government aided √

Parent-teacher √

association funding

Funding Board of governors √√√√ Sampling
Sources and
Alumni donation event √ √ Objectives Data required
Population
Jogothon fund raising √√

Percentage of Mubaligh school aid √ #1: Review the • Maintenance Maintenance
government 0% √ records and personnel in the
funding on √ management documents
maintenance 5 - 10% practices case study
10% - 15% √ • Responses from
15% - 20% √ interviewee

School Principal √√√√

Person in Senior assistant √ √ #2: Study the Building occupants
charge for (Student affairs) perception on on heritage block
maintenance building occupants • Questionnaires of the case study
Chief administrator √√ on maintenance responses

General technician √ practices

M aintenance teacher √√

All teachers √

Approximate Senior assistants & 103 10 52 81 #3: Assess the • Building defects Building defects on
number of teachers existing building record and listing heritage block of
occupants 22 18 12 9 with photo and the case study
General staff √√√√ condition its locations
Documentation Defects record folder √√√√
Method Work quotation folder Figure 1: The summary of the data required for these
Maintenance log book √√ objectives

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