**6. Building design and controls priorities**

To protect and safeguard the residents and users of the buildings and the surrounding environment during a pandemic and afterward in future buildings, we need to establish building design and controls priorities [8].

The inputs to the building design and controls priorities by different team members depend on the requirements of each priority, where the following five priorities were established:


The authors will concentrate on the third priority concerning "architectural and engineering controls," where guidelines will be outlined in detail in this chapter, as they are the main theme of the research here. This will give concerned architecture and engineering university students, educators, and interested professionals the opportunity to utilize these guidelines and thoughts for educational, professional, and business purposes and requirements.

*Perspective Chapter: Guidelines to Cope with Challenging Problems Facing the Building… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.109169*
