COTE Top Ten Support

Our COTE Top Ten review services help you polish your submission, offering quick feedback or detailed insights on your narratives, images, and overall project story. We'll help identify any missing elements, strengthen weaker sections, and ensure your your project's big picture clearly connects to the Framework.

Last minute review

  • Holistic review of materials against the big picture of your submission

  • Review and comments on all COTE Top Ten narratives

  • Image review against Framework statements

  • Identification of gaps and/or opportunities to expand

  • Final streamline and polish before submission

In-depth Framework review with discussion

  • Read through and comments on all narratives and connections to metrics in submission

  • Review project metrics for accuracy and the technical review process

  • Project discussion with marketing and project architect

  • Review of images to ensure you have the proper pictures and diagrams to support your framework statements

  • Identification of gaps and/or opportunities to expand

  • Project discussion with marketing and project architect

  • Discussion on process and how to continue to address these questions throughout the design process and preparing for awards earlier

  • Final streamline and polish before submission

"No one knows more about the Framework for Design Excellence than Melissa Morancy."

— Michelle Amt, FAIA, 2024 Chair, AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE)