Available Online at www.e-iph.co.uk Indexed in DOAJ and ScienceOPEN ASLI 2018 AicQoL2018PerhentianIsland http://www.amerabra.org; https://fspu.uitm.edu.my/cebs 6 th AMER International Conference on Quality of Life Pulau Perhentian Resort, Malaysia, 03-04 March 2018 "Quality of Life in the Built & Natural Environment 6” eISSN: 2398-4287© 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v3i7.1241 Essential Entities towards Developing an Adaptive Reuse Model for Organization Management in Conservation of Heritage Buildings in Malaysia Mohd Hanizun Hanafi, Arman Abdul Razak, Zul Zakiyudin Abdul Rashid, Mohd Umzarulazijo Umar Universiti Sains Malaysia, Housing Building and Planning, George Town 11700, Malaysia hanizun@usm.my, ar_raz@usm.my, zul_zaki@usm.my, muo12_hbp025@student.usm.my Tel of 1 st Author: 04-653 2883 Abstract The paper purposely to confirm the keys entity from the literature reviews targeting expertise as advisors for the organisation management to establish an existence required for mitigates in the decision-making process. Stratified random sampling with questionnaires as a research instrument and 129 expertise in heritage fields as a factor analysis meticulously set up. Preliminaries finding indicates with statistic confirmation that there are ten main entities namely social, economic, function, physical, infrastructure, technology, law and regulation, politic, environment and finance. The confirmatory result towards entity will contribute to the preliminaries stage procedure in developing an adaptive reuse model to organization management. Keywords:Adaptive Reuse Model: Heritage Building eISSN: 2398-4287© 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v3i7.1241 1.0 Introduction Conserving heritage buildings provides significant economic, cultural and social benefits (P. A. Bullen & Love, 2010). Unfortunately, heritage building worldwide increasingly threatened (Abdul Rashid & Ahmad, 2011; Mohd-Isa et al., 2011; Webb, 2017 ; Jim, 2005 ; Zhang et al., 2017) by natural disasters and human activity namely flood, earthquake, tsunami, urbanization, modern building technology and innovative development pressure. Sustainable forest management (Latip et al., 2013) and heritage building protection (Liusmanet al., 2013; Umar et al., 2015) become an essential and exclusive agenda for Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Malaysia (MOTAC) to upgrading all required, available resource within the country. The disappearance of traditional and authenticity conservation practice in term of design, material, craft, installation method, etc. worsen the situation. Recognition as UNESCO World Heritage Site for George Town City and Malacca on 07 July 2008 is a defining moment to dedicate government achievement and tremendous effort to make sure heritage resources is well captive. The challenging part of this award is to retain the title and at the same time improving heritage asset (Romao et al.,2016)(Valentina et al., 2015) according to UNESCO requirement standard. UNESCO with cooperation and commitment from Malaysia Government, trough the Department of National Heritage (JWN) under the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Malaysia (MOTAC) consistently updating all necessary information and enhancing heritage resource (Othman & Hamzah, 2013) within the country. JWN with unlimited sources is getting input from the state party, and experience non-government organization (NGO) ensuring the information gathered is reliable and up to date. Especially with limited and scare resources such as heritage building, monument and street furniture that contribute to having a significant value of cultural heritage meeting with Outstanding Universal Value (OUV), under UNESCO World Heritage branding (Adie, 2017), term and condition. One should understand and interpret the assets in a manner which are appropriate for its cultural significance before making decisions for its future and changes to its fabric (Bakri et al., 2012). Importantly input from expertise is mandatory to fill the gap between