2011 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Project Awards

The AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) and its Top Ten Green Projects awards program recognize the benefits of sustainable design and acknowledge architects as leaders in the creation of environmentally responsible design solutions.

COTE encourages architects and their teams to submit their projects for the Top Ten design competition. Now in its 15th year, the program is one of the best known sustainable design recognition programs in the nation. Winning projects will be recognized with an AIA/COTE award certificate and acknowledged in the national press, on the AIA Web site, and at the AIA National Convention and Design Expo in New Orleans May 12-14, 2011.

Submission Deadline
Entries must be received by 8:00 p.m. EST January 24

Eligibility Criteria
Projects may be located anywhere in the world, but must have been designed by an architect licensed in the United States. Entries submitted may be large or small projects, new construction or renovations, and any project type. Urban and regional design projects are welcome. Projects must be built and completed after 2001.

Any project that credits and 2011 AIA/COTE Top Ten jury member or his or her firm as architect, associate architects, consultant, or client is ineligible and will be disqualified if submitted. Communication with AIA/COTE Top Ten jurors by the entrants is inappropriate and cause for disqualification.

2011 AIA/COTE Top Ten Jury
Joshua W. Aidlin, AIA | Aidlin Darling Design
Mary Guzowski | University of Minnesota School of Architecture
Kevin Kampschroer | General Services Administration
Mary Ann Lazarus, AIA LEED AP |HOK
Jennifer Sanguinetti, P.E., LEED® AP | BC Housing
Lauren Yarmuth, LEED AP | YRG Sustainability Consultants

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