1Faculty of Architecture and Environmental Design, (IIUM), Gombak, Malaysia
American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture.
2014,
Vol. 2 No. 6, 177-185
DOI: 10.12691/ajcea-2-6-1
Copyright © 2014 Science and Education PublishingCite this paper: Mehdi S. Kaddory Al-Zubaidy. Optimizing the Risk-preparedness and Disaster Management Systems of all World Heritage Sites by Exploiting HPWS and Conform to the UNESCO Guidelines.
American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture. 2014; 2(6):177-185. doi: 10.12691/ajcea-2-6-1.
Correspondence to: Mehdi S. Kaddory Al-Zubaidy, Faculty of Architecture and Environmental Design, (IIUM), Gombak, Malaysia. Email:
mkaddory@yahoo.comAbstract
The paper examines the possible efficacy of HPWS (High-Performance Work System) in optimizing the risk-preparedness and disaster management of the World Heritage Sites (WHS), using Alhambra Palace, Spain, as the test site. Most of the WHSs are vulnerable to various types of risks, and the UNESCO has set a stringent standard for their maintenance, failing which any WHS will lose its title. The paper has a goal of finding a common risk-preparedness and disaster management solution that would enable all WHSs to conform to the maintenance standard set by the UNESCO. A test survey conducted on Alhambra site WHS which chosen as a case study of World Heritage Sites under UNESCO, the feedback shown that it is possible to exploit HPWS to optimize the risk-preparedness and disaster management systems of all World Heritage Sites and conform to the UNESCO Guidelines.
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