ABSTRACT
It is commonly acknowledged that the conservation of the heritage of buildings is crucial to any culture, especially since conservation is essential to understanding a country’s background through preservation and control. However, most of the current practices regarding conservation and management of heritage buildings, with special reference to Egypt, are not guided by specific policies or strategic management plans. Consequently, the main objective of this paper is to analyse the current practices that are applied in sustainable retrofitting of heritage buildings, whether nationally or internationally, in order to extract lessons learned for the management of heritage building conservation. A qualitative analysis, through a literature review, was implemented in order to document the nature of reused heritage buildings. This was followed by a comprehensive comparative analysis between a numbers of case studies for heritage buildings, either nationally or internationally. The findings have been extracted from the literature review and case studies.
