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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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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 news: July 2020

    Posted 07-22-2020 10:02 AM

    Julie Hiromoto, AIA, chair of AIA COTE's national advisory group, on putting equity issues into practice and learning about the experiences of BIPOC colleagues. 

    https://bit.ly/COTEnewsJuly2020_ChairLtr


    Snohetta's Dennis Rijkoff, AIA, offers an intriguing take on the AIA Framework for Design Excellence's Measure 8: Design for Resources: Toward an Architecture of Vitality and Productivity

    https://bit.ly/COTEnewsJuly2020_Measure8

     

    Here's a snapshot about how AIA and COTE are turning advocacy into impact, due to persistent effort from AIA Government Advocacy group and Mike Davis, FAIA. 

    https://bit.ly/COTEnewsJuly2020_Advocacy

    HKS's Sarah Woynicz-Sianoecki, AIA, shares a from the GBC's Equity Summit

    https://bit.ly/COTEnewsJuly2020_EquitySummit


    + the last piece on new COTE Advisory Group members (mine!)

    https://bit.ly/COTEnewsJuly2020_AG-Gould

     

    COTE community, we are sending out monthly news out via social, Knet, and Basecamp, but we hope that AIA Knowledge Community communications, which have been paused since March, will be back to pre-COVID-19 formats soon. 


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    Kira Gould
    Principal
    Kira Gould CONNECT
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