Identifying parameters for a performance-based framework: Towards prioritising underutilised historical buildings for adaptive reuse in New Zealand

Abstract

This paper identifies the parameters for a performance-based framework to prioritise underutilised historical buildings for adaptive reuse interventions, while discussing its effectiveness towards promoting sustainable and resilient urban areas in New Zealand.A narrative review of extant literature is done to justify the need for the performance-based framework and build a list of relevant parameters that elucidates all or part of a typical decision-making process regarding the selection of historical buildings for adaptive reuse in New Zealand.Five main priority aspects with significant evaluation criteria that have been identified from this study are economic sustainability, built-heritage preservation, socio-cultural aspects, building usability, and regulatory aspects. This paper's originality pertains to the development of parameters for a performance-based framework that offers a basis for relevant adaptive reuse stakeholders to prioritise underutilised historical buildings while balancing their diverse objectives. Accordingly, the performance-based framework has been validated to justify the relevance of its applicability to the different outlined parameters, towards prioritising underutilised historical buildings for adaptive reuse in New Zealand.

Urban Heritage Facility Management: A Scoping Review

“…The role of FM in historical urban development is infrequently studied, and its contribution to sustaining the operation of heritage buildings is sometimes problematic. Most studies stated that FM was mainly related to supporting core activities within a singleowned building(s) [9,[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. In fact, FM could be understood from a broader perspective [40], for example, understanding FM from urban scale viewpoints.…”

“…The main goal of urban heritage conservation is to preserve the authenticity, unique characteristics, and cultural identity of the urban heritage area [32,94] in order to improve the dwellers' well-being, reinforce neighborhood, enhance physical and social public wellness, increase citizen participation, and create more equitable and satisfying places by sustainably transforming the physical environment [27,92,95], for example, the creation (or re-creation) of urban (heritage) attractive public space by redesigning and programming existing active public plaza [27,92]. One thing to be considered, heritage assets should be protected through the application of preventive maintenance and monitoring rather than executing significant repairs, restoration, or reconstruction to preserve better the authenticity of the assets [96].…”

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Unintended consequences of the earthquake-prone building legislation: An evaluation of two city centre regeneration strategies in New Zealand's provincial areas

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