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ALBION DISTRICT LIBRARY BY PERKINS + WILL IS A 2018 COTE TOP TEN RECIPIENT. IMAGE: DOUBLESPACE PHOTOGRAPHY

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The Committee on the Environment (COTE®) is an AIA Knowledge Community working for architects, allied professionals, and the public to achieve climate action and climate justice through design. We believe that design excellence is the foundation of a healthy, sustainable, and equitable future. Our work promotes design strategies that empower all AIA members to realize the best social and environmental outcomes with the clients and the communities they serve.

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To learn about the Framework for Design Excellence (formerly the COTE Top Ten Measures), click here.

Check out COTE's history and timeline. 

Starting a local COTE or sustainability group and need some guidance? Check out the AIA COTE Network Resources here.

A big thank you to our 2024 sponsors: 
Founding sponsors: Building Green
Premier sponsors: Sherwin-Williams
Sustaining sponsors: GAF Roofing, Milliken, Andersen Windows, BlueScope Buildings
Green sponsors: EPIC Metals
Allied sponsors: TLC Engineering, Sierra Pacific Windows

  • 1.  COTE Toolkit Launched!

    Posted 12-14-2018 03:45 PM
    Good people,

    The COTE Toolkit just launched on AIA.org's site today, please go and check it out and share with your networks. The project spanned over the last year+ with over 40 architects from across many of AIA's KCs and Working Groups contributing. Thank you for your efforts!  

    As a quick introduction - The toolkit combines research, best practices, and award winning case studies to support deep green projects. The superspreadsheet is a great tool to quantify project impacts across the spectrum of sustainable measures such as community, ecology, energy, water, resilience, health resources and especially design.
     
    https://bit.ly/2BhSWYg 

    All the best,
    Tate

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    Tate Walker, AIA
    Architect
    OPN Architects
    Saint Paul MN
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