The AIBC is pleased to announce that the nomination process for the Professional Recognition Awards has been updated and significantly streamlined. It’s now easier than ever to recognize individuals for their outstanding contributions to the profession, the community or the Institute. If you know of a worthy candidate or firm who should be recognized, celebrate their positive impact on the field by nominating them for the AIBC Professional Recognition Awards!
Nominations for the following AIBC Professional Recognition Awards will only be accepted until 4:30 p.m. on Friday, August 31, 2018:
AIBC Lifetime Achievement Award
This prestigious award, established in 2013, is intended to recognize current or former B.C. architects who have made exceptional, sustained and significant contributions to the profession of architecture and its public appreciation in the province through an outstanding, career-long body of work. Consideration will be given to those with notable work across an entire career generally greater than 25 years and may be bestowed posthumously.
AIBC Special Recognition Award (Formerly AIBC Special Certificate of Recognition)
This award is intended to honor AIBC architects, other individual registrants or architectural firms who have made exceptional, sustained and significate contributions to the practice or profession of architecture through professional and/or volunteer activities.
The Barbara Dalrymple Memorial Award for Community Service
Established in honor of the late Barbara Dalrymple, a prominent Vancouver architect with a strong commitment to her profession and the community, this award recognizes lifetime or exceptional time-limited contributions made by AIBC architects, individual registrants or architectural firms, in the spirit of Barbara’s dedication to positive change and her legacy of professional and public service.
Nomination Forms
Visit the AIBC website to download a nomination form for each award category.
Nominations for these AIBC Professional Recognition Awards are reviewed by the AIBC Professional Recognition Committee. Nominations that meet the awards’ criteria are recommended to and selected by AIBC Council.
This year’s awards ceremony is scheduled to take place on November 8, 2018, at VanDusen Botanical Garden.
For more information about the AIBC Recognition Awards Program, please visit the AIBC website or contact Shawna Chilton at 604.683.8588, extension 305; or by email at schilton@aibc.ca.