Impact of COVID-19 on Construction Production Rate

At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 contagious virus swept, which caused a lot disturbances in all countries worldwide. The Egyptian government declared an emergency and placed country under lockdown. Preventive measures such as social distancing, sterilization, mask wear, frequent temperature checks, offering COVID-19-related training, encouraging work-from-home initiatives, among other precautions, have been implemented. Such precautionary affected construction production rate. This research used questionnaire face-to-face interviews to solicit opinion industry professionals experts on tier-one companies impact this pandemic A quantitative analysis has done study using IBM SPSS Statistics 26© determine most important effective factors rate industry, mainly Egypt. Also, illustrates Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) model predict project’s cost at for actual status Egypt peak COVID-19. does not only present case but can also influential Egypt, virus, be similar crises lesson learned no covered area previous works. Finally, results validation proposed ANN show sector, (case study), rates sector future crisis.