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Demystifying the AIA Top Ten Toolkit

  • Gulf of Maine Research Institute 350 Commercial St Portland, ME United States (map)

Join AIA Maine and presenter Gunnar Hubbard, FAIA to learn about the AIA COTE Top Ten Toolkit and how it can advance your practice.

2 HSW Learning Units.

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Emerging Professionals Rate.

We reduced the price of tickets to $10 for emerging professionals. Join us so you can learn how to integrate these performance metrics into your work early in your career., (Open to any architecture student, recent graduate,
or architect licensed fewer than 10 years.)

Join by Webinar Option.

If you can't get away from the office, join us online.

High Impact Strategies.

Discover the most powerful concepts behind each measure to bring to every project.

Communicate with your Clients.

Learn how to help your clients see the value of integrating these measures into their projects.

Best Practices.

Get real tactical advice for how to integrate the focus topics into your design.

Join us on Monday, Evolve your Practice on Tuesday.

This session will provide practical steps that architects can start using right away to advance your success.

This event will be followed by an informal outdoor lunch
on the grounds of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute.
(weather permitting)

Parking is available on-site.

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About Gunnar Hubbard, FAIA, LEED Fellow: Gunnar Hubbard is a recognized leader in green building across the United States and in Asia, Europe and the Middle East with 25 years of experience as a licensed architect, consultant, educator and advocate. Gunnar helped to develop the AIA Top Ten Toolkit and currently sit on the AIA National COTE Advisory Group. 

About the AIA COTE Top Ten Toolkit: Limited access to high-quality, concise, and usable information is a major barrier to the universal adoption of sustainable design. The COTE Top Ten Toolkit is a resource, accessible to all architects, that closes the information gap to designing high performing, equitable, beautiful buildings. The toolkit is designed to provide relevant, general guidance to architects incorporating deep green principles from the beginning of every project. Learn More

About COTE Top Ten:The COTE® Top Ten Awards is the industry’s best-known award program for sustainable design excellence. Learn More

2 HSW Learning Units

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will learn how to define top ten measures.

  2. Participants will learn how to apply the top ten measures to projects.

  3. Participants will learn how to use the super spreadsheet.

  4. Participants will learn how to take this knowledge to clients, enhance services, and improve the performance of their buildings.