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Building Maintenance Management System for Heritage Museum
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ABSTRACT
An investment in the building maintenance aspect is massive throughout
the world. In most of the countries, it signifies approximately 50%
of the entire revenue of the construction industry. The value of buildings
depends on the eminence of the maintenance invested in them.
Maintenance management engages obtaining utmost advantage from
the investment made on the maintenance activities. At the moment,
maintenance in buildings in Malaysia is on the increase in spite of size,
category, location, and ownership. This study focuses on Building Maintenance
Management System for Heritage Museum, which consists of
two case studies in Penang State Museum and Art Gallery, Malaysia
and Museum of Perak, Malaysia. The aim of this study is to propose
methods to improve the maintenance management system for heritage
museum. From the results, the common problem occurs during the implementation
for the maintenance of each building is the budget for the
maintenance and worker’s skill. The department of each museum must
have their own maintenance unit to keep an eye on the maintenance
activities for their buildings in order to improve the maintenance management
system in their building.
Keywords: maintenance management, heritage building, museum, art
gallery
Introduction
Maintenance for building can be defined as the process which the building is
kept usable at a pre-determined standard for the use and benefit of its occupants
or user. Building maintenance has become the significant part of the work for the
building in order to keep the buildings usable for the heritage museum building
[1]. The maintenance management is defined as systematic approach in planning,
organizing, monitoring and evaluating maintenance activities and their costs. A
good maintenance management system could prevent the heritage museum from damage and can reduce the operating cost and at the same time can sustain the
particular building for longer life span. In addition, maintenance management
system also can influence the effectiveness of the process of maintenance system
to keep the building usable [2].
In Malaysia, the aspect of building maintenance is provisionally determined
and is regularly carried out only when there is money, even if the needs are understandable
the building becomes unpleasant or even inappropriate for its users and
the public [3]. Per se, aspect of building maintenance is not regarded as part of
the production processes, that is, not as a factor of production[4]. There is no
hesitation that the government is constantly increasing its provision to the maintenance
division, but the allocation is abominably insufficient to meet the evergrowing
command for the maintenance accumulation [5]. For that reason, there is
a call for a broad and efficient value-based modus operandi associated to building
maintenance that puts the building users at the centre of maintenance planning,
control, and execution [6]. A proper building maintenance management system
that is value based offers an apparent characterization of the ambitions and objectives
of the maintenance programmes and policies as well as creating the problems
the maintenance is expected to resolve [7].
Methodology
Present heritage building maintenance management practices in Malaysia are,
however, condition and reactive based. The rising importance of building maintenance has also engendered an increasing attention in developing maintenance
management procedures to progress the performance of heritage buildings in Malaysia.
In order to carry out the this study, there are several research
methodologies were applied, including the literature review, data collection, site
visit, interviews, observation and data analysis.
Data Analysis
This part will discuss on data analysis for maintenance management for
heritage museum obtained from interview with the staff and observation. The data
analysis will be discussed according to these two building that are Penang State
Museum and Art Gallery and Museum of Perak. There are several important factors
in maintenance management system for heritage museum which are:
i. Worker’s skill
Worker’s skill also is the most significant for maintenance management system
for heritage museum. Every work that is done by the selected contractor must be
skilled and very wide knowledge in maintenance work for heritage museum. This is
because the maintenance work for heritage museum needs the special skilled for
repairing the structural parts of the building so that it will not fade the heritage
value in the building [8].
Conclusion
This paper has presented about the maintenance management system for the
heritage museum that including the two heritage museum in Malaysia.
Maintenance management is very important for every building especially the
heritage building. Heritage museum always have the visitors that come to visit the
display in this building such as culture in our country. For these cases, the heritage
museum must need a good maintenance management system because it can
manage the maintenance in the building systematically and can prevent the
damages to the building. The administration for the building also must establish a
maintenance department because it can handle the maintenance problem with
their own skilled.