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

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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

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AIA COTE Top Ten Toolkit: free webinar on AIAU

  • 1.  AIA COTE Top Ten Toolkit: free webinar on AIAU

    Posted 03-22-2019 01:33 PM
    AIA COTE® Top Ten Toolkit: Learning Live:
    Excellence by Design in the Era of Climate Change
    Register for this course and learn more about the process of designing high-performing, resilient, beautiful buildings.

    Climate change is the fundamental design problem of our time, and architects need the skills to help make beautiful, resilient, high performing buildings. However, limited access to quality information that is both usable and concise is a major barrier to the universal adoption of sustainable design. The recently released AIA COTE® Top Ten Toolkit seeks to close this information gap and make sustainable design strategies accessible to all architects through a framework that can guide the design of all projects, large or small, with a budget high or low, located in Minnesota or Texas. The Toolkit identifies patterns that emerge in projects that achieve both design excellence and exceptional performance, and includes a variety of high-impact, low-cost strategies that can elevate the quality and outcomes of any project.

    Date: April 10, 2019 at 2pm ET.
    https://aiau.aia.org/courses/live-course-toolkit-learning-live-excellence-design-era-climate-change


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    Kira Gould
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    Kira Gould CONNECT
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