COTE Network Update
By Bunny Tucker, AIA, CPHD
The COTE Network hosted its third quarterly call of the year on Tuesday August 6, 2024 at 2:00 pm ET. The discussion, titled “Hot Topics” focused on climate-driven work taking place in various Chapters. AIA Monterey Bay COTE co-chairs Libby Barnes and Celina Brown shared their approach to integrating the AIA’s Materials Pledge locally, AIA Philadelphia COTE co-chair Katherine Urbaniak presented her subcommittee’s development of a Zero Waste Event’s Guide and subsequent zero waste events that it informed, and AIA LA COTE members Raschelle Habchi and Hafsa Burt described their role in the development and adoption of the latest local embodied carbon laws. It was an inspiring collection of stories followed by a great conversation. In case you missed it, the recording will be available on our KNet page here. We hope to see all COTE Chapter leaders at our Q4 call on Nov 12, 2024 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET followed by Office Hours from 3:00 pm ET to 3:30 pm ET.
Additional Resources:
For more information on the COTE Network, including registration for our quarterly calls for COTE Chapter leaders, please visit our KNet page here.
2024 COTE Chapter Guide can be found here.
The latest version of the Common App for Design Excellence and supporting resources can be found here.
COTE Chapter Leaders contact list
Forms to update contact information (will update the database above)
Individual Volunteers
Chapters
Bunny Tucker, AIA is an architect at Shape Architecture Studio in Denver and a certified Passive House designer. She serves as a co-chair of the COTE Network. Prior to architecture, she studied environmental policy and taught high school science with Teach for America. She combines her background in sustainability with her passions for educational and environmental justice to design spaces that contribute to human health, address climate change, and restore ecosystem function. As a leader within the AIA’s Committee on the Environment (COTE), she works across groups to advance a low carbon economy. She has taught comprehensive design studio at Drexel University and served on design juries at Georgia Institute of Technology and Temple University.