Maintenance of Saudi heritage buildings: facility management perspectives
Alfalah, Ghasan . 2020
Saudi heritage buildings are historically unique by nature and require specific attention to their architectural elements. Current trends of protection and use of heritage buildings and cultural heritage components testify to increasing attention to studying of heritage and legacy in the country. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to establish the impact of good maintenance work on heritage buildings in Saudi Arabia. This purpose is achieved through identifying factors that lead to the good maintenance of Saudi heritage buildings. The fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) is used here to calculate the weighted importance of the factors and subfactors that protect Saudi heritage buildings. The factors and subfactors were determined based on 41 questionnaires. The main contribution of the present research can be presented in determination of the current facility management perspective for Saudi heritage buildings and highlights the areas that require more attention from the facility management to fill the gaps in maintenance approaches for Saudi heritage buildings, thus preventing unexpected destruction for many of the original historically important elements and keeping the originality of the buildings from any action that may lead to unexpected destruction.
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