...Stylianos Karatzas; Vasiliki Lazari; Kalliopi Fouseki; Valeria Natalia Pracchi; Evagelos Balaskas Purpose Heritage building management serves as a potent catalyst for sustainability, yet it poses a distinctive set of challenges. Achieving a harmonious balance between conserving the building's...

... into sustainable and cohesive nodes. This research aims to identify cultural facility oversupply in the city center and understand the required usage for heritage buildings to promote a habitable, sustainable and cohesive historic center. Design/methodology/approach The study consisted of two phases. Firstly...

...Rohit Ramakrishna Nadkarni; Bimal Puthuvayi Purpose The identification (listing) and classification (grading) of urban heritage buildings for conservation is a challenging task for urban planners and conservation architects. Most of the world's cities depend on the expert-based evaluation method...

...Brit Anak Kayan; Deanne Seanuau Kely Jitilon; Mohammad Nazmi Mohd Azaman Purpose Low carbon repair epitomises sustainable maintenance management for heritage buildings. However, there is little recognition of this aspect, coupled with impractical assessment of repair impact strategies. This paper...

... open for participation from 21 October 2015 to 18 March 2016 when online access was removed. The time stamps provided by SurveyMonkey® show that the actual participation occurred from 21 October 2015 to 4 January 2016. Preventive conservation Heritage buildings Conservation theory and practice...