Carleton University and Historic Ottawa Development Inc. (HODI) have announced the winners of the 2018 HODI Award in Built Heritage Conservation.
Established in 2015, the HODI Award for Built Heritage Conservation is awarded annually to outstanding students in Carleton?s Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering or the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies. Recipients are involved in projects aimed at safeguarding and rehabilitating historic buildings in Ottawa.
The award provides the opportunity for HODI to support the emerging generation of conservation professionals in researching, learning and practicing in Ottawa. It helps build the capacity needed to deliver conservation best practices for Ottawa?s built heritage, now and into the future. This year there were four winning entries. Two teams from the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism?s undergraduate program in Conservation and Sustainability shared the first-place award: Danielle Simpson and Natasha Lemire-Waite for their project Changing the Perspective, and Robin Hoytema for her project Earth and Heaven. Each team will receive $2,000.
Changing Perspective.
Two teams were awarded second place: Katie Wilson and Melissa Brady, also from the undergraduate program in Conservation and Sustainability, for their project Roots, and engineering students Jamie Marrs and Erin Hemm from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering?s undergraduate prog...