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Prioritization of Heritage Buildings in Historic Cairo for Restoration Funding

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Construction Planning and Scheduling

Abstract

Egypt is one of the richest countries in its historic and tourism attractions which are among the main contributors to the country's gross domestic product (GDP). Historic Cairo which has hundreds of mesmerizing historic Coptic and Islamic structures (mosques, churches, mausoleums, etc.) has been identified by UNESCO as a world heritage site since 1979. However, it has been noticed that its share in the tourism revenues is quite low compared to its value. One of the reasons is that many of the historic structures are closed because they are severely deteriorated due to urban expansion, pollution, environmental hazards, and aging. To revive the tourism in Historic Cairo, the government has been directing its efforts towards the conservation of those structures and reopening them to the public, and thus increase tourism-based revenues. However, the funding needed to restore all structures is very limited. There are hundreds of historic structures in need for restoration with a budget of more than one billion EGP. Accordingly, this research proposes a decision support system inspired by infrastructure asset management system (IAMS) to guide the fund allocation process. It follows the sequential steps of IAMS from asset inventory, condition assessment, up to prioritization and fund-allocation, yet considering the unique value of each heritage building and the expected socioeconomic benefits of restoring the structures and upgrading their surrounding areas. Therefore, this new structured decision support system will help policy makers develop the best rational restoration plan that will help rejuvenate Historic Cairo, and subsequently Egypt's tourism revenues.

DOI

10.21608/asge.2023.218432.1053

Keywords

Budgeting, Fund-allocation, conservation, Infrastructure Asset management, decision-support-system

Authors

First Name

Sherif

Last Name

Mourad.

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Prof. Of steel structures and bridges, Structural Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University

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smourad@eng.cu.edu.eg

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Giza

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First Name

Tarek

Last Name

Hegazy

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Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo

Email

tarek@uwaterloo.ca

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Mamdouh

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Affiliation

Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt

Email

ahmad-mamdouh@outlook.com

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Elyamani

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Affiliation

Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, Egypt

Email

a_elyamani@cu.edu.eg

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-

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First Name

Dina

Last Name

Saad

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-

Affiliation

Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt

Email

d.atef.saad@eng.cu.edu.eg

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-

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Volume

07

Article Issue

01

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42378

Issue Date

2023-02-01

Receive Date

2023-06-18

Publish Date

2023-02-01

Page Start

20

Page End

28

Print ISSN

2785-9509

Online ISSN

2812-5142

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https://asge.journals.ekb.eg/article_310449.html

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2,140

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Publication Title

International Journal of Advances in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering

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https://asge.journals.ekb.eg/

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Prioritization of Heritage Buildings in Historic Cairo for Restoration Funding

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Created At

30 Dec 2024