**2. Research objectives**

This research has three objectives: first, to gather and present, as far as possible, information and data that can be classified, tabulated, and used for setting up comprehensive and integrated guidelines to address, solve, handle, cope with, minimize, and mitigate the effect of problems facing the building construction industry that are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis; secondly, to present to the concerned university students (i.e., architecture and related engineering disciplines), design teams, and educators an outline of systematic guidelines that can be helpful for educational purposes in their design, study, and teaching, in addition to their consideration by other professionals for projects and business; thirdly, to suggest to the policy-makers proposals to be included in the Building Rules and Regulations to control and eliminate the spread of pandemics through architecture practical scientific solutions to ensure health buildings and environment. To achieve the three

abovementioned objectives, it is important to thoroughly investigate new architectural approaches and movements and to review and rethink distinct concepts, procedures, building regulations, and standards to overcome the challenges [9, 10].
