Top Ten Green Buildings 2018

In April AIA and the Committee on the Environment (COTE) traditionally announced this year’s recipients of the COTE Top Ten Awards, the industry’s premier program celebrating great design and great performance. COTE bestows the award annually on 10 design projects that have expertly integrated design excellence with cutting-edge performance. In order to be eligible, project submissions are required to demonstrate alignment with COTE’s rigorous criteria for 10 measures that include social, economic, and ecological values. The five-member jury evaluates each project submission based on a cross-section of the 10 metrics balanced with the holistic approach to the design. This year the prize was awarded for the 22nd time.  

Top Ten Awards is the industry’s best-known award program for sustainable design excellence. Each year, ten innovative projects are recognized for their integration of design excellence with environmental performance. But the COTE Top Ten is more than an award for a few exemplary projects – it’s a framework firms can use to guide the design of every project in their design portfolio.

This year, the awards were given to objects of various functional purposes, built on the East and West coasts of the United States and in Canada. Traditionally, most of the awards for high achievements in green building – namely five, have been received in California, followed by two projects in Washington, D.C., and for one project in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Atlanta, Georgia, and in Toronto, Canada.

Materials provided by The American Institute of Architects

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