Awards
Recognizing Excellence in Conservation
The Built Heritage Awards call attention to excellence in the conservation of our province’s built heritage. The awards recognize and honour outstanding individuals or groups who have conserved a part of our built heritage.
Each year one award is given in each of the following categories:
Residential
Commercial
Institutional
Places of Worship
Adaptive Reuse
The first four awards recognize exceptional renovation and restoration projects in their respective contexts.
The adaptive re-use award specifically recognizes best-practice examples of the sensitive adaptation of heritage buildings to accommodate new uses, while carefully conserving their character-defining elements.
From time to time an Award for Excellence in Supporting Heritage Conservation is also given. This award recognizes the hard work and dedication of an individual to heritage conservation by way of increasing public awareness of and support for heritage resources, achievement in heritage resource planning and management, or exemplary volunteer commitment.
Award winners are honoured at an annual event in the summer and projects are profiled on our website, social media and in our newsletter The Griffin.
Eligibility
Nominations may be put forward by 2 members of HTNS OR 1 single non-member individual, organization, business, or government department.
The project must have been completed within the last 5 years.
Nominations must be accompanied by signed consent from the owner of the property.
Award for Excellence nominations must be accompanied by the signed consent of the nominee.
Current members of the Board of HTNS are ineligible for the Award for Excellence.
Nomination Procedure
To submit an award nomination:
Complete the nomination form.
(Optional) Request a review of your draft nomination by the awards committee to ensure nomination requirements have been met.
Submit the finished nomination package, including the nomination form and all supporting attachments to either the email address or mailing address provided on the nomination form.
Nomination packages must be received by email or postmarked by midnight on December 31 of that year.
Selection Procedure
The Awards Committee reviews the applications submitted. This process includes an evaluation of the project based on the established criteria based on the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada, an inspection of the project, and may include seeking additional information.
Note: Special consideration is given to projects involving adaptive reuse, buildings rescued from imminent demolition, and buildings of community interest that have been saved.
The Awards Committee’s list of recommended award winners is presented to the Heritage Trust’s Board of Trustees for approval.
Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia reserves the right to withhold awards if no suitable nominations are received.