Nova Conservação - Distinctions

Distinctions

Awards granted to interventions by Nova Conservação or in which we collaborated

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Year 1999
Distinction Prize EUROPA NOSTRA

Belém Tower

In 1999 the conservation project of the exterior of the Belem Tower, carried out by Nova Conservação/NC between 1997 and 1998, received the EUROPA NOSTRA Award for its technical and scientific excellence. The official ceremony took place on the Belém Tower on June 16, 2000.

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Year 2010
Distinction Prize EUROPA NOSTRA

Santa Clara-a-Velha Monastery

The Valorization Project for the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha, in Coimbra, carried out by the HCI Construções, SA/Nova Conservação Ltd consortium between 2006 and 2008, won the EUROPA NOSTRA Award in the category ‘Conservation’. The Jury “warmly praises this project for its thoughtfully chosen traditional conservation techniques and for the continued monitoring and maintenance of the site. […] The democratic and ongoing dialogue […] ensured that appropriate and current conservation options were carried out.”

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Year 2016
Distinction Prize EUROPA NOSTRA

Cathedral and Diocesan Museum of Santarém

The jury of the prize EUROPA NOSTRA, pointed out that "The conservation of paintings, sculptures, ecclesiastical objects (...) was carried out with efficiency and great attention to detail by the conservatives. There is a harmony in the successful combination of these different elements and the effect is subtle but impressive (...) ".

Nova Conservação participated in 2013/2014 in the recovery and restoration of 3 lots of movable heritage of the Diocese of Santarém (paintings, sculptures, carvings, liturgical furniture, textiles and pieces of jewelery and other metals), a total of about 180 parts, and which are now in the Diocesan Museum of Santarém.

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Year 2009
Distinction Special Prize Turismo de Portugal

Estoi's Palace Lodging

Special Award Turismo de Portugal for the Pousada Palácio de Estoi in Faro.
Nova Conservação participated between 2009 and 2010 in Lake Recovery and statuary and conservation and restoration of constructive and decorative elements in the Gardens (South sector) of the Palace of Estoi

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Year 2009
Distinction Prize Turismo de Portugal - Honorable Mention

Santa Clara-a-Velha Monastery

Honorable mention in the category “Requalification Public Project” for the Valorization of the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha, in Coimbra, an intervention carried out between 2006 and 2008 by the consortium HCI Construções, SA / Nova Conservação, Lda.

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Year 2011
Distinction Prize Turismo de Portugal - Honorable Mention

Troia's Roman Ruins

The jury awarded an honorable mention in the category “New Public Project” to the Valorization of the Roman Ruins of Tróia. Nova Conservação has been developing conservation campaigns in Tróia since 2010.

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Year 2013
Distinction Prize

S. Bento railway station

The jury of the SOS Azulejo Awards distinguished REFER in the 'Conservation and Restoration Intervention' category, for the “conservation and restoration works carried out in the Pinhão and in the S. Bento railway stations”. The São Bento station intervention was carried out by Nova Conservação, between 2010 and 2011.

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Year 2014
Distinction Prize Brunel

S. Bento railway station

Prize awarded to the conservation and restoration intervention of the tile panels of S. Bento railway station in Porto, between 2010 and 2011 by Nova Conservação.

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Year 2015
Distinction Prize "SOS Azulejo"

Graça Convent - Cloister

The jury of SOS Azulejo distinguished the Municipality of Torres Vedras and the "Conservation and Restoration of the tiles of the Cloister of the Convento da Graça, Torres Vedras," intervention carried out in 2015 by Nova Conservação.

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Year 2014
Distinction Prize Vasco Vilalva

Museum of Sacred Art of the Diocese of Santarém

The Jury convened by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation distinguished the project of creating a Museum of Sacred Art of the Diocese of Santarém, highlighting “not only the importance of this new museum for the cultural promotion of the region, but also the conservation and restoration of the cathedral and movable heritage carried out under this project.”

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In August 11th 1994, Nova Conservação was established in Portugal by technicians specializing in Conservation and Restoration who were academically trained by the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro, in Rome; such is the case of Paola Coghi and Nuno Proença.

As conservator-restorers, they have been invited to work internationally, in conservation and restoration consultancy and projects, in countries including Italy (Tempio Nettuno, Paestum), Argentina (Teatro Cólon, Buenos Aires), India (Taj Mahal, Agra), China (Nanshi, Luoyang), and Libya (National Heritage Museum, Tripoli).

Currently, Nova Conservação also counts with conservator-restorers trained by the Faculty of Science and Technology of New University of Lisbon and the Tomar School of Technology - Polytechnic Institute of Tomar among its professionals.

We are a structured organization with a permanent, multidisciplinary and complementary team, combining experience and youth, and including experts from the fields of architecture, the humanities and the traditional arts.

In these more than 20 years of activity, we have had the privilege to carry out numerous conservation and restoration interventions, mostly in designated historic monuments, as well as diagnostic surveys, studies and projects, for public and private national and international entities. Some of these interventions were distinguished by organizations such as EUROPA NOSTRA.

Nova Conservação also cooperates with institutions linked to research and higher education, thereby contributing to the production of knowledge and methodological and technological innovation in the field of heritage conservation.

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Modus Operandi

We conduct the study and analysis of the heritage subject in its historical aspects, condition, materials and construction techniques and artistic production in order to prepare the intervention, from which results the documentation of all work phases, understood as a fundamental part of the object’s historical memory.

Thanks to the skill and experience of our team, in its various aspects, reinforced where necessary by specialized technicians, we can ensure the accuracy and quality of our work. To support the organizational structure, we have an integrated management system, certified since 2009 for quality (ISO 9001).

A key factor is still our position in yard, fulfilling the security legislation either to employees and other stakeholders and for the object and its surroundings, and while allowing the continued enjoyment of the object / monument. Respect for environmental standards / eco-sustained, too, it is revealed in the careful management of residual materials from the interventions.