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Retraction

RETRACTED: Amran et al. A Review on Building Design as a Biomedical System for Preventing COVID-19 Pandemic. Buildings 2022, 12, 582

by
Mugahed Amran
1,2,*,
Natt Makul
3,
Roman Fediuk
4,5,
Aleksey Borovkov
5,
Mujahid Ali
6 and
Abdullah M. Zeyad
7,8
1
Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj 11942, Saudi Arabia
2
Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and I.T., Amran University, Amran 9677, Yemen
3
Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Faculty of Industrial Technology, Phranakhon Rajabhat University, Bangkhen, Bangkok 10220, Thailand
4
Polytechnic Institute, Far Eastern Federal University, 690922 Vladivostok, Russia
5
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251 St. Petersburg, Russia
6
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Perak Seri Iskandar 32610, Malaysia
7
Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Jazan University, Jazan 88723, Saudi Arabia
8
Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Aden 9672, Yemen
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Buildings 2024, 14(9), 2806; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14092806
Submission received: 27 March 2024 / Accepted: 28 March 2024 / Published: 6 September 2024
Versions Notes
The journal retracts the review article A Review on Building Design as a Biomedical System for Preventing COVID-19 Pandemic [1], cited above.
Following publication, concerns were brought to the publisher’s attention regarding an overlap with previously published manuscripts [2,3] with a different authorship group.
Accordingly, an investigation was conducted by the Editorial Office and Editorial Board, which confirmed the presence of extensive overlaps with the above-mentioned manuscripts. Following discussions, the authors requested the retraction of the article [1], following which the Editorial Office and Editorial Board agreed to the retraction as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30).
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Buildings.

References

  1. Amran, M.; Makul, N.; Fediuk, R.; Borovkov, A.; Ali, M.; Zeyad, A.M. RETRACTED: A Review on Building Design as a Biomedical System for Preventing COVID-19 Pandemic. Buildings 2022, 12, 582. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  2. Emmanuel, U.; Osondu, E.D.; Kalu, K.C. Architectural design strategies for infection prevention and control (IPC) in health-care facilities: Towards curbing the spread of Covid-19. J. Environ. Health Sci Eng. 2020, 18, 1699–1707. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] [PubMed Central]
  3. Dietz, L.; Horve, P.F.; Coil, D.A.; Fretz Meisen, J.A.; Van Den Wymelenberg, K. 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Built Environment Considerations to Reduce Transmission. mSystems 2020, 5, e00245-20. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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Amran, M.; Makul, N.; Fediuk, R.; Borovkov, A.; Ali, M.; Zeyad, A.M. RETRACTED: Amran et al. A Review on Building Design as a Biomedical System for Preventing COVID-19 Pandemic. Buildings 2022, 12, 582. Buildings 2024, 14, 2806. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14092806

AMA Style

Amran M, Makul N, Fediuk R, Borovkov A, Ali M, Zeyad AM. RETRACTED: Amran et al. A Review on Building Design as a Biomedical System for Preventing COVID-19 Pandemic. Buildings 2022, 12, 582. Buildings. 2024; 14(9):2806. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14092806

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Amran, Mugahed, Natt Makul, Roman Fediuk, Aleksey Borovkov, Mujahid Ali, and Abdullah M. Zeyad. 2024. "RETRACTED: Amran et al. A Review on Building Design as a Biomedical System for Preventing COVID-19 Pandemic. Buildings 2022, 12, 582" Buildings 14, no. 9: 2806. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14092806

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