The Joggins Fossil Centre has won an International Environmental Award!

The Joggins Fossil Institute (JFI), the registered charity which manages the Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO World Heritage Site, is pleased to announce that the Joggins Fossil Centre has won an International Green Apple Built Environment Award.

These prestigious awards are presented by the Green Organisation, a UK-based non-profit organisation, in partnership with the British Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, The Environment Agency, The Chartered Institute of Wastes Management and the Municipal Journal.

The Joggins Fossil Centre, designed by WhW Architects of Halifax, and the winner of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Architecture in 2007 has now been selected to receive this prestigious international prize as a result of the hard work, which was undertaken to minimise the impacts of the new centre on the environment. Melanie Cookson-Carter, Operations Coordinator, will be collecting the award at the ceremony, due to be held on 14th June at the Tower on London, England. The ceremony will be shown on Green TV and the JFI will find out on the evening if they have won Gold, Silver or Bronze.

Melanie says of the award, “We are really pleased to have been selected to receive an award by the Green Organisation. The nomination process was fairly robust and we had to provide in-depth information on the project and centre development including; impacts on the environment, social and financial benefit, visual impact and construction waste minimisation, amongst others.”