Committee on the Environment

I have been asked a few times about efforts to evolve design awards, which is something that COTE has championed for years. In recent months, COTE leaders, including Anne Schopf and Corey Squire, have developed the Common App to help bring the measures (the AIA Framework for Design Excellence) into any design awards program, and streamline (and standardize) entry processes. This COTE initiative that is currently being beta tested by a few Knowledge Communities. 

Here are some resources about the state of this effort:

an overview of the effort ---

Moving toward design awards that support climate action
by Anne Schopf, FAIA, and Corey Squire, AIA
from the COTE newsletter, August 2019
https://network.aia.org/blogs/anne-schopf/2019/08/26/awards-alignment-the-common-app-a-tool-for-design?utm_source=RealMagnet&utm_medium=email&utm_term=38715258--c7e601fb-fd68-4044-a8a5-7e6b3da9be8b&utm_content=Committee%20on%20the%20Environment%20(COTE)--2019%20COTE%20newsletter%20-%20August&utm_campaign=Awards,%20Equity,%20and%20Alignment%20for%20Climate%20Change

attached:
a COTE memo about the Common App
a PDF (static) of the Common App

We will continue to update AIA members as this initiative develops. Already, numerous chapters have expressed interest or have begun to evolve their design awards programs to utilize this framework. 

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Kira Gould
Principal
Kira Gould CONNECT
Oakland CA
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Thank you! This is very helpful as we plan our next Design Awards program.

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Jeannette Schram
Executive Director
AIA Maine
Portland ME
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Thank you, Kira!  AIA Western Massachusetts will use these materials as we consider how to change our award programs.  

Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham
Senior Campus Planner
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA

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Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham AIA
Senior Campus Planner
University of Massachusetts
Amherst MA
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-13-2019 13:55
From: Jeannette Schram
Subject: evolving design awards: the Common App

Thank you! This is very helpful as we plan our next Design Awards program.

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Jeannette Schram
Executive Director
AIA Maine
Portland ME
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