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 2018
- Distinction Prémios APOM - Intervenção em Conservação e Restauro - Menção honrosa
Museu de Arte Sacra do Funchal
O Júri dos Prémios APOM atribuiu uma Menção Honrosa à intervenção realizada, no Museu de Arte Sacra do Funchal, por parte da 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.”
