PTN is pleased to open the nomination process for the 2024 Askins Achievement Award! Nominations will be accepted through April 8th, at which time the nominations will be reviewed and voted on by the Askins Award Committee, a group composed of former awardees. Our 2024 awardee will be announced and award presented at the International Preservation Trades Workshop in Savannah, Georgia this October. Happy Nominating!
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The Askins Achievement Award is named in honor of James (Jim) S. Askins, the founder of the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center. The award is given in recognition of outstanding contributions and accomplishments in the promotion, education, and application of preservation trade skills. The award has been presented annually by the Preservation Trades Network since 1998 at the International Preservation Trades Workshop (IPTW).
The Askins Achievement Award recognizes contributions over and above the noteworthy. The award criteria includes contributions to the preservation trades for: the continuance of traditional building skills, advocacy of training in preservation trades, practicing a building trade at master level of skill and knowledge, and extraordinary effort given to advancing the awareness of traditional building trade skills and knowledge.
The nominee should be an advocate of the trades from a trade’s background, and have contributed efforts above and beyond the norm to help move the trades’ community forward. The nominee should be a person who has helped raise the bar and challenged others to try harder. The Askins Achievement Award represents more than just quality work and good ethics it also means challenging others to work for the betterment of the community around them.
Guidelines and Nomination Procedure
1. Askins Achievement Award recipients do not have to be members of Preservation Trades Network.
2. Nominators for the Askins Achievement Award do not have to be members of the Preservation Trades Network and they do not have to be Award Recipients.
3. Recipients of the Askins Achievement Award are the group that administers the award, and selects future recipients.
4. The award was established to be distinct from and separate from the Preservation Trades Network Board of Directors.
5. The permanent award plaque listing previous winners is owned by the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center and shall be displayed and kept up-to-date by the HPTC at the HPTC Headquarters at Gambrill House, Frederick, MD. The Logo is loaned to PTN for use on the individual Award Plaque given to each year’s winner.
6. A recipient selected by the others shall take on the administration of the award on behalf of the Askins Achievement Award group.
7. The new recipient shall be contacted to ensure that the plaque is created in the manner desired by the recipient.
8. The criteria for the Askins Achievement Award are stated in the nomination form.
9. The Askins Achievement Award group shall solicit nominations from the Preservation Trades
Community at large.
10. The Askins Achievement Award group shall have the right by majority vote to approve or disapprove use of the Award for marketing or promotion by the Preservation Trades Network Board
of Directors.
11. The Askins Award Recipient shall have a nominator who has provided a written nomination form and is willing to introduce the recipient.
12. Announcement of the Askins Award Recipient shall be published in the PTNews or other media after the International Preservation Trades Workshop.
13. Announcement of the Askins Award Recipient before the International Preservation Trades Workshop is subject to a majority vote of the recipients.
14. The business of the Askins Achievement Award group may be conducted by conference call, direct meeting, or email. A quorum to conduct the business of the group shall be a majority of the recipients.
15. Nominations stand for one year. The nomination may re-submitted.
