Understanding the Role of Standards in the Negotiation of a Healthy Built Environment.

ABSTRACT: A growing number of international standards promote Healthy Built Environment (HBE) principles which aim to enhance occupant and user health and wellbeing. Few studies examine the implementation of these standards; whether and how they affect health through changes to built-environment design, construction, and operations. This study reviews a set of sustainability and HBE standards, based on a qualitative analysis of standard documents, standard and socio-technical literature on normalization and negotiation, and interviews with 31 practitioners from four geographical regions. The analysis indicates that standards can impact individual, organizational, and market-scale definitions of an HBE. Some changes to practice are identified, such as procurement and internal layout decisions. There

SUBMITTER: Callway R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7116544 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature