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LYSAGHT Award for Outstanding Achievement
Whereas BHP Building Products has agreed to provide an annual prize in Architecture for the purposes of study and travel, the following rules are hereby made:
- The award shall be known as the “LYSAGHT Award for Outstanding Achievement”. The intention of the award shall be to assist the holder to travel to other parts of Australia or elsewhere for architectural study.
- The value of the award shall be $1000.
- A plaque to be presented by BHP Building Products and displayed in a prominent position in the School will be engraved each year with the name of the recipient of the award.
- The prize shall be awarded annually by the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design to the student in the Bachelor of Design Studies program who has, in the year of the award, obtained the highest marks in the course Building Design Studio III. No award shall be made if the School deems that no student is of sufficient merit.
- Where two or more candidates are of equal merit, the award shall be shared equally.
- Payment of the award shall be made after approval by the Head of School of the travel and study arrangements proposed by the student. It is expected that the prize winner will submit the travel and study proposal within one month of receiving notice of the award of the prize.
- The scholar must submit to the School and to BHP Building Products a short report on the travel undertaken.
- These rules may be varied from time to time by agreement between the University and BHP Building Products.
