Passive Design

Pranjal Jagtap Pranjal is an architect with a Master’s in Environmental architecture from BNCA, Pune. During her summer internship, she worked on the development of a user manual for the Energy Conservation Building Code developed for residential buildings, the Eco-Niwas Samhita by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency in Vk:e. Currently she is working as [...]

Vairoshini Kumaran Vairoshini holds a Master’s in Sustainable Architecture. She focused her thesis on a net-zero energy school. She is currently working as a Project Associate at a reputed firm.

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. [...]

Nathan Ponnan Nathan is an architecture graduate from MSAP Manipal and a winner of SDI 2025 (Team Kalpana, Product Division). He has experience in sustainable design, product innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration, with a strong interest in advancing energy-efficient practices.

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. [...]

Jyotika Girdhar Jyotika has a Master’s in Environmental Architecture from Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture, Pune. Her key areas of interest are energy efficiency in buildings, passive design strategies, daylighting analysis, building physics, and building energy simulations. She has taken part in various competitions, like the BS2021 Modelling Challenge & Competition IBPSA, Eco-Niwas [...]

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 [...]

Jnanesh Preethan Jnanesh is a 2024 B.Arch graduate from VTU and works as a Junior Architect at YV Architects, Bangalore. He was a finalist in SDI 2022-23 with Team Poiesis, and was awarded in the Best Movie award. He specialises in sustainable design, blending technology, architecture, and innovation to develop impactful solutions for the [...]

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.