Proposal for Project Management for the Intervention of Buildings with Historical and Architectural Heritage Declaration in Costa Rica

This communication sets out the map of the proposed process for the professional management framework for the intervention projects of heritage buildings in Costa Rica, which guides the technical direction of this kind of projects. To achieve the objective of designing said model, it was proposed to diagnose the status of the management of heritage projects in the country; the processes of the model and the management tools were formulated, considering the diagnosis, the guide of the Project Management Institute and the suggested by the HBIM protocols. The Costa Rican State owns approximately 80% of the historical buildings, but it does not have institutional protocols about intervention processes so that the country does not have standards minimums that guarantee the use of the resources invested in these projects. Therefore, the model intends to standardize the processes of heritage interventions in Costa Rica and offers new professional management tools for the star-up and planning phases, witch present particularities compared to those used in the management of new construction. In addition, this article presents the new research project of the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the Costa Rica Institute of Technology, as a continuation of the work here exposed.