Fire safety management in heritage buildings: the current scenario in Malaysia

Fire safety management in heritage buildings: the current scenario in Malaysia

In Malaysia, there are many heritage buildings with an architectural and historical significance that influenced by several architecture styles including a traditional Malay architecture, the Portuguese architecture, the Dutch architecture, and the architecture styles brought by British (e.g. Mooris...

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Main Authors: Salleh, Nurul Hamiruddin, Ahmad, A Ghafar
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2009
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AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General)
NA Architecture
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/1085/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/1085/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/1085/1/11.pdf
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spelling iium-10852011-08-08T04:21:18Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/1085/ Fire safety management in heritage buildings: the current scenario in Malaysia Salleh, Nurul Hamiruddin Ahmad, A Ghafar AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General) NA Architecture In Malaysia, there are many heritage buildings with an architectural and historical significance that influenced by several architecture styles including a traditional Malay architecture, the Portuguese architecture, the Dutch architecture, and the architecture styles brought by British (e.g. Moorish, Tudor, Neo-Classical and Neo-Gothic). Most of them are worthy to be listed as Heritage Buildings or National Heritage Buildings under the National Heritage Act 2005 (Act 645). The Malaysian government is undertaking many efforts to promote conservation and preservation of heritage buildings in the country. Some of the buildings have been changed to different functions from its original (adaptive-reuse) such as into museums, libraries, offices or hotels. It is however, in the past few years there are few priceless heritage buildings were badly damaged or burnt down by fire includes the People Museum, Melaka (2001), Rumah Pak Ali , Gombak (2003) and Sarawak Club, Kuching (2006). In one case, it was given a total loss approximately up to MYR 5 millions. Fire is one of the greatest threats to heritage buildings not only to the building’s occupants but also to the building’s fabric and contents. Heritage buildings are irreplaceable but vulnerable to fire as there is a combination of several factors: large scale buildings; flammable priceless contents; large numbers of visitors; and existing structures weak on fire resistance. Unfortunately, until today, there are relatively no sufficient legislations or guidelines on fire safety for heritage buildings in Malaysia. In fact, the Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia (FRDM) stressed the safety of life is the ultimate principle of fire safety in a building. Property protection which includes protection to building’s fabrics and contents of heritage buildings is not really been prioritised. The purpose of this research is to investigate the current fire safety management in heritage buildings in Malaysia through a series of interview and observation surveys. In this research, thirty seven heritage buildings have been surveyed as a building sampling. The finding found that most of the buildings are still having a poor fire safety management. From the survey, seventeen leading fire safety management problems in the buildings have been identified. 2009-10-11 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/1085/1/11.pdf Salleh, Nurul Hamiruddin and Ahmad, A Ghafar (2009) Fire safety management in heritage buildings: the current scenario in Malaysia. In: 22nd CIPA Symposium, 11-15 October 2009, Kyoto, Japan. http://cipa.icomos.org/text%20files/KYOTO/11.pdf
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topic AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General)
NA Architecture
spellingShingle AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General)
NA Architecture
Salleh, Nurul Hamiruddin
Ahmad, A Ghafar
Fire safety management in heritage buildings: the current scenario in Malaysia
description In Malaysia, there are many heritage buildings with an architectural and historical significance that influenced by several architecture styles including a traditional Malay architecture, the Portuguese architecture, the Dutch architecture, and the architecture styles brought by British (e.g. Moorish, Tudor, Neo-Classical and Neo-Gothic). Most of them are worthy to be listed as Heritage Buildings or National Heritage Buildings under the National Heritage Act 2005 (Act 645). The Malaysian government is undertaking many efforts to promote conservation and preservation of heritage buildings in the country. Some of the buildings have been changed to different functions from its original (adaptive-reuse) such as into museums, libraries, offices or hotels. It is however, in the past few years there are few priceless heritage buildings were badly damaged or burnt down by fire includes the People Museum, Melaka (2001), Rumah Pak Ali , Gombak (2003) and Sarawak Club, Kuching (2006). In one case, it was given a total loss approximately up to MYR 5 millions. Fire is one of the greatest threats to heritage buildings not only to the building’s occupants but also to the building’s fabric and contents. Heritage buildings are irreplaceable but vulnerable to fire as there is a combination of several factors: large scale buildings; flammable priceless contents; large numbers of visitors; and existing structures weak on fire resistance. Unfortunately, until today, there are relatively no sufficient legislations or guidelines on fire safety for heritage buildings in Malaysia. In fact, the Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia (FRDM) stressed the safety of life is the ultimate principle of fire safety in a building. Property protection which includes protection to building’s fabrics and contents of heritage buildings is not really been prioritised. The purpose of this research is to investigate the current fire safety management in heritage buildings in Malaysia through a series of interview and observation surveys. In this research, thirty seven heritage buildings have been surveyed as a building sampling. The finding found that most of the buildings are still having a poor fire safety management. From the survey, seventeen leading fire safety management problems in the buildings have been identified.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Salleh, Nurul Hamiruddin
Ahmad, A Ghafar
author_facet Salleh, Nurul Hamiruddin
Ahmad, A Ghafar
author_sort Salleh, Nurul Hamiruddin
title Fire safety management in heritage buildings: the current scenario in Malaysia
title_short Fire safety management in heritage buildings: the current scenario in Malaysia
title_full Fire safety management in heritage buildings: the current scenario in Malaysia
title_fullStr Fire safety management in heritage buildings: the current scenario in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Fire safety management in heritage buildings: the current scenario in Malaysia
title_sort fire safety management in heritage buildings: the current scenario in malaysia
publishDate 2009
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/1085/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/1085/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/1085/1/11.pdf
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