COTE & Tower Awards

COTE Awards

Recognizing well-designed projects by AIANC members that exemplify the COTE Measures of Sustainability. AIANC COTE awards must include a description with key environmental features, and narratives responding to specific categories, indicating an understanding of the connections between them. Selection favors well-designed solutions that exhibit an integration of natural systems and appropriate technology quantifying features when possible (using suggested metrics), verification through building systems modeling, analysis, and best practices.

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Tower Awards

Recognizing well-designed projects by AIANC members that exemplify historic preservation and adaptive reuse in renovation, restoration or rehabilitation of a historic structure; new / infill construction within a historic context; or a new construction addition to a historic structure. Tower Award submissions must be on the National Register of Historic Places; a contributing building in a National Register historic district; a contributing building in a locally-designated historic district, or a locally designed landmark. 

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