In 2008, an independent jury selected ten Heritage Award recipients and one Lucybeth Rampton Award recipient from a field of many worthy candidates. Chris Vanocur announced 2008's winners, celebrating their preservation work completed during 2007.

Every year through its Heritage Awards Program Utah Heritage Foundation recognizes projects, organizations, and individuals across Utah that exemplify excellence in the preservation movement.

Each award recipient represents a model that others can look to for meeting the challenges of preservation. As a group, the recipients represent the many and varied ways preservation is accomplished in our communities. They include: exciting adaptive use projects, the tireless efforts of dedicated homeowners, threatened buildings that have been saved from destruction, and lifetime efforts of committed preservationists. Through this awards program Utah Heritage Foundation congratulates all of the award recipients and thanks them for their contribution to preserving Utah's architectural heritage. In 2008, the foundation presented ten Heritage Awards along with the Lucybeth Rampton Lifetime Achievement Award.