Background Sustainable design strategies are targeted at finding architectural solutions that reassure the well-being and coexistence of inorganic features, living organisms, and humans that make up the ecosystem. The emergence of the novel coronavirus, an increase in microbial resistance, and lack of a vaccine for the present pandemic have made it imperative to appraise the preventive strategies employed during the pre-antibiotic period. Sustainable architecture for children's hospital design and childcare facilities, apart from low energy and carbon emission, must integrate design strategies to confront the impact of infectious diseases. Aim The aim of the paper is to identify how the space patients and health-care workers0 occupy can be made safer from an architectural design perspective with the view of developing guidelines for policymakers and highlighting the architect’s role in combating the pandemic. Objectives The objectives include; to examine the evolution of medical architecture and the nexus between infectious diseases and architectural space and suggest a design approach that enhances infection prevention and control (IPC). Method The paper relied on existing literature, interviews, and interactions with healthcare workers. Results/Conclusion The findings showed that design strategies have always played a significant role in infection prevention and control (IPC) and could as well be a panacea for curbing the spread of Covid -19.

Sustainable architecture searches for methods to lessen the adverse environmental burdens of buildings by efficiently and moderately using materials, energy and space. Ensuring sustainable development in multiple dimensions requires an essential factor such as sustainable architectural practice that inculcates assessment framework. Life Cycle Energy Assessment (LCEA) is a key component of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in which energy use at different life cycle stage of buildings is the only parameter analysed. In developing countries, defining sustainable architecture and environmental sustainability assessment in buildings remains a herculean task. The aim of the study was to examine the theoretical challenges associated with defining what we mean by calling a building "green" or sustainable architectural design and a post-positivism viewpoint on sustainability assessment of architectural design. The objectives are to review the criteria for sustainable architecture and conduct an LCEA of an existing residential apartment building in Abakaliki-Nigeria, using process-based Life Cycle Energy Assessment. The embodied energy intensity was found to be high at 6.10GJ/M 2 , while cement-based component was 8.8% by mass but accounted for 67.6% of the embodied energy. Consequently, it is imperative to carry out LCEA at the early stage of design and employ strategies to reduce embodied energy instead of focusing only on lessening the operational energy. Environmental and energy efficiency approaches should be prioritized on a life cycle energy basis.

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Sustainable design strategies focus on architectural design considerations which assures the welfare, in addition to cohabitation of inanimate elements, and existing creatures that constitute the ecosystem. Sustainable architecture for public spaces, in addition to energy efficiency and zero greenhouse gas emission, needs to adopt approaches that lessen the effect of communicable diseases. Often, the primarily focus of architects is the aesthetics of buildings, there is no cognizant method for sustainable infection prevention and control mostly in the planning/production phase of public buildings. The paper aims to assess and identify how the public space can be safer in a pandemic from the vantage point of built environment professionals with the view of evolving strategies for policymakers with emphasis on the duties of the architect in mitigating the spread of viruses. The steps taken were to assess the relationship amongst environmental space and infectious diseases and propose practical steps to limit infection prevention and control (IPC) in public buildings. The paper is based on works of literature and consultations. The paper concluded that design approaches perform a substantial part in prevention and control of infections in public spaces, as well as healthcare facilities. Hence, sustainable design strategies may well be a remedy for mitigating the spread of coronavirus in public buildings.

The emergence of the novel coronavirus, increase in microbial resistance and the scarceness of vaccines for the present pandemic have made it imperative to appraise the link between the sustainable built environment and Infection control as well as the strategies employed during the pre-antibiotic period. This paper aims to identify the nexus between a sustainable built environment and infection control in healthcare facilities with the view of developing guidelines and highlighting the role of architecture in curbing the pandemic. The study relied on existing studies, interviews, and interactions with healthcare workers. The findings showed that sustainable design strategies play a significant role in infection prevention and control and could as well be a panacea for curbing the spread of Coronavirus, especially in healthcare facilities. A sustainable environment for hospitals or healthcare facilities, apart from low energy and carbon emission, needs to integrate design strategies to confront the impact of healthcare-associated infections.