Implementation of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Social Heritage Buildings in Kuala Lumpur

Heritage buildings offer a sense of identity in every country. Preserving heritage is important to ensure that bona fide aesthetic values are well maintained. However, the conservation and preservation during operation maintenance (O&M) has been taken lightly which can cause be abandoned due tedious work involved for Facility Managers. Therefore, need advanced technology, such as Historic Building Information Modeling (HBIM), enhance efficiency O&M Malaysia. Even though BIM many benefits, yet it not widely adopted Malaysia especially buildings. this research highlights awareness social Kuala Lumpur. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with various construction professionals have experience projects managing These prove current facility management practices do use technology upkeep maintenance, particularly when producing dilapidation reports measured drawings. Findings also show challenges restrict implementation how overcome problems categorized into three (3) elements: people, process, technology. This expected fill gap by supporting initiatives Malaysian government increasing productivity through adoption new like BIM,