Embodied Carbon

Paranjay Bhawsinghka Paranjay is a Sustainable Design Analyst at Kapadia Associates, Mumbai. He has led SDI teams in 2023 and 2025, both finishing among the top, and volunteered in 2024. With strong experience in net-zero design, he is passionate about mentoring and supporting teams across the SDI ecosystem.

Anmol Mathur Anmol is an architect specialising in Building Energy Performance with an M.Tech from CEPT University. He is the Co-Founder of CoLEAD which is an Integrated Sustainable Design Consultancy providing Building Science simulations to optimise Building performance and occupant comfort. He specialises in advance energy, HVAC, thermal comfort, and Urban energy simulations. [...]

Pranav Raghavan Pranav is an architect and designer with interests in computational design, energy-efficient architecture, creative coding, and interaction design. He was co-team lead of Team Yuktha, a finalist in the Educational Buildings category at SDI 2022–23. His work explores how people interact with built environments to create effective, human-centered design solutions. [...]

Kajal Rajesh Sawant Kajal is an environmental architect and assistant professor at S. B. Patil College of Architecture & Design. She has completed her M.Arch in Environmental Architecture from BNCA, Pune. Her key areas of interest are lighting and daylighting analysis, passive design strategies, building energy simulations, energy efficiency in buildings and energy codes [...]

Mansi Parikh Mansi has 5+ years experience in sustainability and architecture. She has been actively involved in various campus projects with net-zero targets for energy, water, carbon emissions and waste, pan-India. Her area of expertise lies in developing sustainability frameworks for built environments. She also has knowledge and experience in the field of passive [...]

Shubham Solanki Shubham is an architect and has a Master's in Building Energy Performance from CEPT University. She is the co-founder of CoLEAD - An Integrated Sustainable Design Consultancy. She specialises in HVAC systems, Low-energy cooling systems, thermal comfort, passive building optimisation, and Green Building certification.

Utkarsh Khandelwal Utkarsh is a researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Technologies, IISc Bengaluru, with a background in architecture from MNIT Jaipur. His work spans energy, water, materials, and product development using systems thinking, machine learning, and GIS. A former lead of Team SuGriha (SDI 2021–24), he is committed to developing sustainable habitats. [...]

Dhanashri Mankar Dhanashri Mankar is an architect with a Master’s Degree in Environmental Architecture. She works as a Green Building Analyst at Ecofirst Services Limited – A TATA Enterprise. Her expertise lies in building physics, daylight and energy analysis. Areas of Specialisation Community scale solutions  |  Construction detailing |  [...]

Manika VS Manika is a Sustainability and Energy Efficiency Architect passionate about performance-driven design. His expertise includes passive strategies, energy efficiency, and material sustainability. SDI shaped his technical and innovative approach to sustainability, and he now contributes as a TRG member to support impactful and context-responsive project outcomes.

Pradeep Padhamnath Pradeep is an Associate Professor (research) at AGH university of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland. He is also the Principal Investigator of Marie Curie Polonez grant, where he researches on sustainable material concepts leading to circular economy. Prior to this, he was heading the Solar Cell Technology Research group at SERIS, NUS. [...]