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1. MAJ Database, a database that provides all data on articles in Architecture Malaysia/Majalah Akitek is now available to all users at Resource Centre. Users can use this database to search for any article in Architecture Malaysia/Majalah Akitek from 1972 to 2003.
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Book: Managing Built Heritage: The Role Of Cultural Significance
Author: Derek Worthing & Stephen Bond
ISBN: 97814050119788
Year: 2008

This book examines management of the built cultural heritage through the use of the concept of cultural significance. It considers how and it can be used as effective focus and driver for management strategies and process.

Effective management of the built cultural heritage requires a clear understanding of what makes a place significant (and how that significance might vulnerable) but the book also emphasizes that this understanding of cultural significance must inform all activities in order to ensure that what is important about the place is protected and enhanced.

The book was written in the midst of much fundamental of rethinking, both nationally and internationally, on approaches to the conservation of our built cultural heritage. Managing built heritage: the role of cultural significance is analytical and reflective but also draws on real life examples to illustrate particular issues, looking at current approaches and drawing out best practice.

Book: Building maintenance management
Author: Barriers Chanter & Peter Swallow
ISBN: 9781405135061
Year: 2006

This new edition of an informative and accessible book guides building surveyors and facilities mangers through the key aspects of property maintenance and continues to be of value to both students and practitioners.

With the increasing cost of new-build, effective maintenance of existing building stock is becoming ever more important and building maintenance work now represents nearly half of total construction output in the UK.

Buildings maintenance management provides a comprehensive profile of the many aspects of property maintenance. This second edition has been updated throughout, with sections on outsourcing; maintenance planning; benchmarking and KPIs; currents trends in procurement routes (including partnering and the growth of PFI) integrated into the text. There is also a new chapter on the changing context within which maintenance is carried out, largely concerned with its relationship to facilities management. More coverage is given of maintenance organizations and there are major updates to relevant aspects of health and safety and to contracts forms.

Book: Buletin Perangkaan Sosial

This publication provides information according to areas of major social concern i.e. population, housing, education, health, welfare services, public safety, employment and communication & recreation. These topics were identified as the principal areas used in the measurement of the quality of life and social being, besides the increasing interest among government agencies and the private sector in such statistics.

Socio-economic indicators foe ASEAN and selected countries are also included in this publication for reference.

Book: Sri Lanka Style tropical Design and Architecture

Sri Lanka Style showcases over thirty of the finest traditional and modern dwellings in Sri Lanka, from private homes to retreats and resorts, all designed by the island’s most creative architects and interior designers, including Geoffery Bawa that have not seen before.

Therefore, Sri Lanka Style is an inspirational source book of contemporary tropical style.