AIA 2030 Commitment with OPN Architects’ Tate Walker

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">T</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">ate Walker is the Director of Sustainability at OPN Architects and leads projects and initiatives across the firm’s four offices. His experience is rooted in the architectural design process but also includes program and project management as well as the development of technical guidelines for high performing buildings. He has served on the AIA’s Committee on the Environment and USGBC’s Energy & Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group. Tate firmly believes that the connection between architecture and energy provides leadership opportunities for architects as creative problem solvers. This is especially true for those willing to stretch their practice beyond its traditional boundaries.</span></p> <h2><strong>Show Highlights</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The blue ocean of green building</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The COTE Toolkit operational guide to achieve the COTE top 10</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A framework for design excellence beyond sustainability for the entire Institute. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Fundamental measures about design and equitable communities, energy, water, wellbeing</span></li> </ol> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Projects that weave concepts to tailor unique circumstances through a lens of what health hazards people are currently facing</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AIA, commitment 2030 challenge and other mechanisms, and tools to achieve green building goals</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tate shares the essential questions he asks when walking a client through options </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><