Payette was honored by The Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) and the American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Education (AIA-CAE) as a recipient of two 2008 Excellence in Planning and Excellence in Architecture Awards. 
The Aga Khan University (Pakistan) Faculty of Arts and Sciences (AKU-FAS) Master Plan earned an honor award for Excellence in Planning for a New Campus
The PDSI (Physics, Department of Material Sciences Engineering, Spectroscopy, and Infrastructure) project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was cited with an honor award for Excellence in Architecture for Building Additions.