Colleagues
It has been my great pleasure to serve the AIA's COTE Top Ten review process, both as a main juror and, most recently, as one of the technical review team. I have specifically reviewed the Discovery and Energy measures for the past few years. I will be serving again on the 2021 team. The AIA has already received many more inquiries and activity on the appplication website than in previous years and is expecting a very large number of entries (which is WONDERFUL news).
The expected number of entries is expected to swamp the relatively small number of reviewers on the Discovery and Energy measures. So, this is a personal plea for HELP!
Technical team reviewers will normally spend about an hour-and-a-half on each entry, scoring and commenting so that the main jurors can benefit from our technical input on the entries. To read a little bit about the current program, please see Kira Gould's blog post: https://network.aia.org/blogs/kira-l-gould/2021/01/04/this-years-spectacular-top-ten-juriesfor-cote
If you would like more information about the program, or even better, are prepared to just go ahead and jump in the deep end, please send an email to the AIA's staffer-in-charge, Melissa Morancy (MelissaMorancy@aia.org), and mention that it was me that pointed you to her.
Thanks and I hope to see you on the other side!
Kim
