Resilient Design

Altamash Khan Altamash is a sustainability consultant with a Master’s in Environmental Architecture. He is currently teaching at ADYPU-SOA in Pune and freelances on sustainability projects, while also mentoring students for the SDI Competition. He has a proven track record as an SDI finalist.

Vardan Soi Vardan is an architect with expertise in building science and energy performance. He aims to integrate climate-responsiveness with the conventional design approach and reduce the environmental burden of buildings while maximising comfort, health, and wellbeing. He has the ability to conduct integrated sustainable design in its true form by quantifying high-performance design [...]

Vismaya Paralkar Vismaya is motivated professional with over 5 years of experience, known for a diligent work, relationship building and punctuality. She possesses strong understanding of building physics, sustainable design, and energy-efficient practices. Experience in business development, mentorship, webinar management, consultant recruitment, and impact data reporting (Energy, Water, Carbon emissions, and Finance), green certification [...]

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 [...]

Nikhil Singh Yaduvanshi Nikhil is a Research Assistant at the Humanized Built Environment Lab, University of Texas at Arlington, working on occupant-centric retrofit strategies. With over four years of experience in building energy modelling, he has worked with Ramboll, XS CAD, and Shapoorji Pallonji. He has published internationally and is a member of AEI, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]