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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
engineers mentioned that historical Table 1: Section in Act 645 that related to building maintenance
structures can be salvaged, claiming
for 100 years or more. According to Section Item Description
the research done by Zulkhiple A. Bakar
as mentioned in the newspaper article 21(B)(iii) Expenditure The fund may be expended for the
suggested that to maintain a building 23(1) to be charged conservation and preservation of any
would merely cost about RM5 million 38(1a) heritage item and activities
for life cycle costing, while redeveloping 38(1b) on fund
similar building required more than
RM35 million. The interviewed engineers National Establish and maintain a register known as
were also confident of the strength of Heritage the National Heritage Register
the school buildings, and salvaging the register
structure will help them to save 40% of
their project costs. [2] (The Star, 27 Nov Care of the Make arrangements with the owner or
2006) heritage occupier for the inspection, maintenance,
conservation, and preservation of the
Regarding the maintenance cost of public heritage site
school in Malaysia, the maintenance fund
for public educational institute in Malaysia Commissioner may make a contribution
is usually allocated by the Ministry of towards the costs of carrying out any works
Finance(MOF). However, it arises some of repair
issues as stated in online news by New
Strait Times (2014), deputy education 39(1) Inspection of Owner the building shall permit the
Minister II P. Kamalanathan mentioned heritage site Commissioner to enter the site to inspect,
that RM180.54mil were requested for survey, investigate, or carry out any work
building maintenance and repair, but necessary for the conservation, repair,
only about 10% of requested amount maintenance and cleanliness
was approved.[3] Similarly, as mentioned
in one of the research papers of Zainal 42(1) Duty to keep Owner of heritage shall ensure that the
Abidin et al. (2009), the research suggests 42(2) heritage site heritage site is always in a state of good
that 70% of the school communities 43(1) repair.
do building maintenance without in good
public funding provided by the federal repair If the owner failed to do it, the
government.[4] commissioner may carry out repair works
by inform any person and all costs and
The research was carried out in the city expenses shall be reimbursed by the
of Kuala Lumpur, and mainly focused building owner.
on the maintenance management and
practices in heritage education institutes Financing Owner of heritage sites may carry out any
with different school types, either national conservation conservation and preservation works on
school or religious boarding school. the heritage site apply to commissioner for
Besides, the case studies chosen would work any grant or loan
be the school with a particular criteria,
as stated in Section 67, that probably method mentioned above, the issues and recover the original usage of the particular
to be Gazetted as National Heritage. challenges were determined from various item in BS3811 (British Standards
The existing maintenance practice of aspects. Institution, 1993).[5] Maintenance works
the selected heritage school will be carried for historical building can preserve
determined through various perspective 2.0 Literature Review the distinctiveness of the particular
by interviewing appointed maintenance building over the years (Amir Fahsa,
personnel. Besides, a series of questions Building maintenance is one of the 2010).[6] Government, who is responsible
was posed to the officers in National essential plans to keep a building in for school building maintenance, also
Heritage Departments to obtain relevant good condition. By referring to BS3811, defined building maintenance for the
information on the conservation and building maintenance is defined as the asset in General Order, No.2 1995, as
maintenance approaches. Based on combination of various technical and one of the functions to be carried out to
management aspect carried out to confirm its operations. [7]
preserve the functionality, protect and
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