Adaptation of building services in building conservation / Nurulhafizah Mohd Ramli

Building services becomes a part of the building as it helps to operate performance of
the building. It is possible for modern building as it is designed to fix the services. It
is becomes difficult to install those services in historic buildings due to sensitive
aging structure. In order to preserve and conserve historic buildings, adaptation of
building services should be considered. The main concern should be taken in
installation of new services in historic buildings is minimal disturbance to the
building. Towards that, the study on adaptation of building services in building
conservation was carried out to determine the implementation of those services. It is
focusing on identifying the installation worked carried out in conservation project
thus determining the implementation and problems related to the topic discussed. It
was found that, most of historic buildings were not properly installed M&E system in
the building. Three selected case studies were carried out in this research and
resulted minimal discussion and knowledge about installation technique of building
services has been done in conservation project. Therefore, deeper understanding of
installation technique of building services in historic building will be discussed in
this report. At the end of the study, based on the knowledge from literature review
some suggestion is review, so that the installation of services in historic building
might be improved in the future.