In this 3D environment, practitioners can navigate and interactively query information about the building geometry, surface temperature data, thermal resistances, and analyze condensation problems.
(2) Whether their status as built environment practitioners influenced their approach to evidence?
Built environment practitioners present narratives intended to explain why academic evidence is not always incorporated into decisions.
Built environment practitioners in local authorities apply the word 'evidence' to a variety of knowledge sources including case studies.
Local-level built environment practitioners utilise evidence to make decisions, but their view of 'best evidence' appears to prioritise local relevance over academic rigour.
Key messages Built environment practitioners in local authorities apply the word 'evidence' to a variety of knowledge sources including case studies.
We focused on built environment practitioners because of the well-established theoretical and empirical associations between built environment and public health, but we assume that this selection influenced our findings.
From this study we suggest that built environment practitioners in local authorities do try to base their decisions on the best available evidence but their conceptualisation of 'best' prioritises relevance over rigour and external over internal validity.
47 49 Our findings highlight built environment practitioners' self-identification with the visual and creative arts and humanities, and suggest that this can sometimes make empirical research evidence seem less relevant to them.
Second, the increasing level of change in the business environment urged practitioners to handle complex and unpredictable requirements in systems development.
