Guidelines to Cope with Challenging Problems Facing the Building Construction Industry Due COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis

This chapter is prepared in line with the Kingdom University—Bahrain, Ideas for Research Ideas for Research concerning challenges facing the building industry with emphasis on the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The outline thoughts suggested here are comprehensive and integrated to handle building engineering, construction, environmental, technology, building rules and regulations (i.e. of Bahrain as an example), and other related components that are impacted by the COVID-19. The authors assume three hypotheses in this chapter. First, there is a need to create a set of architectural and building guidelines to help concerned university students to overcome difficulties with regard to various design issues and problems imposed by COVID-19 and/or similar future pandemics as possibilities of their outbreak will continue. Secondly, Building Rules and Regulations need to include guideline clauses on pandemic control. Thirdly, architecture and building engineering can play a vital role in infection prevention and controlling the spread of pandemics within buildings and the surrounding environments. To investigate the hypotheses, literature review and qualitative descriptive method were essential investigation methodologies. The key findings concerning the eight main established categories of the guidelines revealed significantly a number of effective architectural, building engineering, environmental and other related elements to combat COVID-19 and other similar future pandemic crises