AIA-NJ Blog

AIA COTE: January Newsletter

February 6, 2019

    The January AIA COTE newsletter is available.           Letter from the Chair By Marsha Maytum, FAIA   2019 is off to a wild start, with daily reminders of the critical importance of our work, the urgency for action, and exponential change required to achieve a sustainable future. I am honored Read More

Tell FEMA: Climate change is real!

May 2, 2018

Recently, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) removed the reference to “climate change” from their strategic plan. This is especially troubling considering that FEMA is responsible for coordinating the government’s disaster response. Removal of this key terminology promotes an “alternate reality” and a perception that climate change is not responsible for the increase in many Read More

USGBC NJ – South Branch

June 25, 2015

Call for Entries – AIANJ COTE Top Ten Green Projects

May 20, 2015

Is your latest project Green?  AIANJ is looking for entries to be included in the AIANJ Top Ten Green Projects. The Top Ten Green Projects Program recognizes projects that demonstrate the highest accomplishment in environmentally sustainable architecture, combining inspired design, systems analysis, and evaluation of performance. Sustainability envisions the enduring prosperity of all living things. Read More

AIA-NJ Recognizes DMR Architects With 2012 COTE Award

July 18, 2012

Ocean County College Building in Tom’s River, N.J., Recognized for Sustainable Design The Committee on the Environment (COTE) of the AIA-NJ recently announced DMR Architects, a full service architectural firm based in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., as a 2012 Merit Award winner of AIA-NJ’s COTE Top Ten Green Projects Award, which recognizes outstanding built work in Read More

East Coast Green 2012 Save the Date

February 15, 2012

AIANJ Executive Director to Chair IgCC Task Force

February 14, 2012

AIA New Jersey Executive Director, Joe Simonetta, was recently appointed the Chair of the Advocacy Committee of the AIA IgCC Task Force. The goal of the IgCC Task Force is to educate and advocate for the broad countrywide adoption of the IgCC. Joe chairs the Advocacy Subcommittee whose job is to create a strategy and Read More

State Plan Hearings Announced

January 26, 2012

Please be advised that, pursuant to the State Planning Act, the State Planning Commission will be conducting six public hearings in order to receive testimony on the draft Final State Strategic State Plan: New Jersey’s State Development and Redevelopment Plan and the draft Infrastructure Needs Assessment, N.J.S.A. 52:18A-202(c). . The State Planning Commission will convene Read More

LEED AP+ Enrollment

September 6, 2011

Verity Frizzell, AIA, LEED AP – 2011 AIA-NJ COTE Chair Many AIA NJ members took advantage of the LEED Study Groups offered by AIA NJ the past couple of years, and successfully became LEED Accredited Professionals. For those of you who became LEED APs before the exam format changed in June 2009, you have been given Read More