Heritage Buildings Maintenance Trends In Egypt, From Integration To Inclusion

Heritage building information modeling (HBIM) can beconsidered a tool that can be utilized as an approach forheritage buildings' maintenance plans, as maintaining thesevaluable buildings, either for unexpected events or preventivemaintenance, can improve communication and integrate all ofthe necessary information together. HBIM can streamline themaintenance decision-making process by providing a digitalrepresentation of the heritage building's characteristics and itsstate of conservation, so the information can be more evident toa decision. Because maintenance is sometimes seen as a luxuryand not a top priority in developed countries, this researchproposes a solution for putting accurate and precisemaintenance programs into practice and establishing a databasethat might improve Egypt's maintenance strategy for heritagebuildings. Because they are not crucial to keeping the buildingoperational, mandatory maintenance activities are treated asminor issues and dealt with in conventionally. There iscurrently no convenient mechanism in place to anticipate theeffects of maintenance or to document the lessons learned fromthe previous repairs, meaning that the managerial and technicalteams on every site have to start from the beginning withoutbeing able to use previous experience data from similar cases.The seventh pillar of BIM which related to facility managementis a strategy for managing building upkeep and improvingbuilding efficiency by maintaining it. Additionally, BIM whenit is used on heritage buildings, it is referred to by the termHBIM as the word heritage is being add. this can be defined as an illustrative long-term answer to the problem of performingmaintenance on heritage buildings. Old and deterioratingbuildings that need measures to keep them safe and reusable inthe face of gradual, slow deterioration, which can be termed asa silent killer.