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Achieving Sustainability Goals Through Infrastructure Modifications: Lessons Learnt from COVID-19 Pandemic

Ramesh, Poornima / Alagirisamy, Bharani

COVID-19 was declared as a global pandemic on 11 March 2020 by the World Health Organization, but the world is already going after it. From China, cases spread rapidly across the world, driving world policymakers’ stringent steps to separate cases and restrict the virus transmission. The main supportive foundations of the modern world economies have been torn up by these strategies as multinational trading and collaboration resulted in nationalizing and fighting for limited stocks. The epidemic in COVID-19 greatly influenced the growth of infrastructure and the global economy. Global reactions are underway to rapid disruptions in main markets and industries in infrastructure. One remedy is to return to the physical and building environment (BE) to reduce the effect before medications for an outbreak are created. Due to the fear of illness, epidemics have changed our world. In several past studies of infectious pandemics, advances in the BE have been seen to help more to deter infection transmission. Architecture and urbanism would also never be the same following the COVID-19 outbreak. In encouraging environmental health interventions and reducing chances of diseases, BE has an important role to play. Although the ongoing worldwide outbreak is a threat at all levels of the developed environment, implementing an antivirus paradigm can take time to minimize future threats or deter the virus from spreading. This paper presents how the world produced by virus looks on the basis of the lessons learned and the value of a stable and safe environment. Many questions unanswered need further multidisciplinary research. This paper looks at the future COVID-19 steps to gradual and systemic improvements in varying time frames and sizes, which enhance air quality and less energy use, or the use of materials that eventually fulfil the sustainability objectives. This challenges us to reconsider buildings and urban areas and eventually use sustainable solutions for win–win results.