NZILA Canterbury/Westland Branch Chair, Matt Lester attended the Lincoln University Prizegiving held on Friday 23 September 2022 and presented the following awards:

NZILA Award of Excellence 2021 - Best student in the second to last year
Tynan Williams

NZILA Award of Excellence 2021 - Best student in the third to last year
Hamish Murphy

The following award winner was unable to attend the event and will collect her award at a later date.

NZILA/Robin Gay Award 2021
Nika Kent

Robin Gay, the namesake of this award was a NZILA Life Member who passed away in December 2008. Mr Gay was honoured with Life Membership of the Institute during 2001 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of the Institute and that of the landscape architecture profession. He was also Vice-President of IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects) in the early 1980s.