Heritage Buildings Maintenance Trends In Egypt, From Integration To Inclusion

Abstract

Heritage building information modeling (HBIM) can be considered a tool that can be utilized as an approach for heritage buildings' maintenance plans, as maintaining these valuable buildings, either for unexpected events or preventive maintenance, can improve communication and integrate all of the necessary information together. HBIM can streamline the maintenance decision-making process by providing a digital representation of the heritage building's characteristics and its state of conservation, so the information can be more evident to a decision. Because maintenance is sometimes seen as a luxury and not a top priority in developed countries, this research proposes a solution for putting accurate and precise maintenance programs into practice and establishing a database that might improve Egypt's maintenance strategy for heritage buildings. Because they are not crucial to keeping the building operational, mandatory maintenance activities are treated as minor issues and dealt with in conventionally. There is currently no convenient mechanism in place to anticipate the effects of maintenance or to document the lessons learned from the previous repairs, meaning that the managerial and technical teams on every site have to start from the beginning without being able to use previous experience data from similar cases. The seventh pillar of BIM which related to facility management is a strategy for managing building upkeep and improving building efficiency by maintaining it. Additionally, BIM when it is used on heritage buildings, it is referred to by the term HBIM as the word heritage is being add. this can be defined as INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING AND URBAN RESEARCH PRINT