Health and wellness in commercial buildings: Systematic review of sustainable building rating systems and alignment with contemporary research

McArthur, J.J.; Powell, Colin

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.106635

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“…There is a common critique that standards lack a systems-based approach in their treatment of ‘discrete’ intentions—failing to address interdependencies that can exist [ 11 , 41 ]. This is despite a systemic or holistic approach being a central principle of sustainability, where better health can deliver benefits to poverty reduction, increase equality, stimulate economies, and vice versa [ 42 ].…”

Section: An Overview Of Built Environment Standardsmentioning

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

Callway¹,

Pineo²,

Moore³

2020

Sustainability

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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 is more limited evidence of changes to dominant, short-term decision-making practices related to cost control and user engagement in operational decisions. HBE standards risk establishing narrow definitions of health and wellbeing focused on building occupants rather than promoting broader, contextually situated, principles of equity, inclusion, and ecosystem functioning crucial for health. There is a need to improve sustainability and HBE standards to take better account of local contexts and promote systems thinking. Further examination of dominant collective negotiation processes is required to identify opportunities to better embed standards within organizational practice.

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Section: An Overview Of Built Environment Standardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Callway¹,

Pineo²,

Moore³

2020

Sustainability

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“…The system for evaluating the sustainability of buildings has been established for nearly two decades. But, systems dedicated to identifying whether buildings are healthy have only recently appeared (McArthur and Powell 2020 ). People are paying more and more attention to health factors in the built environment.…”

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“…People are paying more and more attention to health factors in the built environment. This is reflected in the substantial increase in related academic papers and the increase in health building certification systems such as WELE and Fitwel (McArthur and Powell 2020 ).…”

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A comprehensive review on green buildings research: bibliometric analysis during 1998–2018

Liu

Rong

Ahmad

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Buildings account for nearly 2/5ths of global energy expenditure. Due to this figure, the 90s witnessed the rise of green buildings (GBs) that were designed with the purpose of lowering the demand for energy, water, and materials resources while enhancing environmental protection efforts and human well-being over time. This paper examines recent studies and technologies related to the design, construction, and overall operation of GBs and determines potential future research directions in this area of study. This global review of green building development in the last two decades is conducted through bibliometric analysis on the Web of Science, via the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index databases. Publication performance, countries’ characteristics, and identification of key areas of green building development and popular technologies were conducted via social network analysis, big data method, and S-curve predictions. A total of 5246 articles were evaluated on the basis of subject categories, journals’ performance, general publication outputs, and other publication characteristics. Further analysis was made on dominant issues through keyword co-occurrence, green building technologies by patent analysis, and S-curve predictions. The USA, China, and the UK are ranked the top three countries where the majority of publications come from. Australia and China had the closest relationship in the global network cooperation. Global trends of the top 5 countries showed different country characteristics. China had a steady and consistent growth in green building publications each year. The total publications on different cities had a high correlation with cities’ GDP by Baidu Search Index. Also, barriers and contradictions such as cost, occupant comfort, and energy consumption were discussed in developed and developing countries. Green buildings, sustainability, and energy efficiency were the top three hotspots identified through the whole research period by the cluster analysis. Additionally, green building energy technologies, including building structures, materials, and energy systems, were the most prevalent technologies of interest determined by the Derwent Innovations Index prediction analysis. This review reveals hotspots and emerging trends in green building research and development and suggests routes for future research. Bibliometric analysis, combined with other useful tools, can quantitatively measure research activities from the past and present, thus bridging the historical gap and predicting the future of green building development. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11356-021-12739-7.

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“…Whether driven by an urge to bolster an unsupportive policy landscape or capitalise on a new market, healthy building rating tools have proliferated in recent years. Voluntary standards and assessment tools such as WELL, Fitwel and RESET are influencing development projects internationally (McArthur and Powell 2020) and creating a new mark of 'value' for buildings that promote health and wellbeing (Pineo and Rydin 2018). Sustainability rating tools have been credited as supporting occupant health (Colton et al 2014, MacNaughton et al 2017.…”

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Built environment stakeholders’ experiences of implementing healthy urban development: an exploratory study

Pineo

Moore

2021

Cities & Health

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Healthy urban development, in the form of buildings and infrastructure, is necessary to reduce disease and injury internationally. The urban development process is complex, characterised by a plurality of actors, decisions, delays, and competing priorities that affect the integration of health and wellbeing. Despite clear shifts in the built environment sector towards considering health, there is a lack of research about how the principles of healthy design are put into practice in development projects. We explored this topic via semi-structured interviews with 31 built environment and public health professionals involved in such projects in Australia, China, England, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United States. We used thematic analysis and three themes emerged from our hybrid deductive and inductive approach, encompassing challenges and potential solutions for integrating health in development. Managing risk, responsibility and economic constraints were paramount to persuade developers to adopt healthy design measures. Participants could push business-as-usual practices towards healthy urbanism by showing economic benefits or piloting new approaches. Finally, participants had contrasting views on whether increasing professional knowledge is required, with several arguing that financial barriers are more problematic than knowledge gaps. This exploratory study contributes insights into an under-research topic and outlines priorities for further investigation.

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Health and wellness in commercial buildings: Systematic review of sustainable building rating systems and alignment with contemporary research

Cited by 93 publications

References 77 publications

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

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

A comprehensive review on green buildings research: bibliometric analysis during 1998–2018

Built environment stakeholders’ experiences of implementing healthy urban development: an exploratory study

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