Our works

 

Architectural Design

  • Integrated Design, sustainability assessment and master planning for a low carbon campus, Christian Hospital, Chhatarpur, MP
  • Delhi Public School, Jamnagar, Shrimati Sulochana Devi Education Foundation. Jamnagar
  • 150 bed hospital, Dr. Ram Kumar. Muzzafarpur
  • Anand Niketan School, Bhadaj campus, MSS Trust. Ahmedabad
  • Architect design team for the CEPT REEC Net Zero Energy Building. Ahmedabad
  • Private residence, Mr. P. Vishwanath. Hyderabad
  • Integrated slum development project, Jodhpur, Unnati. Ahmedabad
  • National chain of guest houses under the rural ecotourism project, Sustainable Development Initiative Program, The Network Enterprise Fund, ICMR Trust. Chennai
  • Projects involved as architectural consultant with HCP Design, Planning and Management Pvt. Ltd. Ahmedabad

o    Entrepreneur Development Institute extension, Gandhinagar
o    400 bed Hospital, Healthcare Campus, Changa
o    Design of new campus, IIM Ahmedabad
o    Record Room at the Gujarat High Court, Ahmedabad
o    Warehouse Phase II, Zydus Distribution, Ahmedabad
o    Auditorium and Laboratory Extension, Cadila Healthcare  Ltd. Ahmedabad
o    Packaging Film Plant, Mother Dairy, Gandhinagar
o    Mc Donald’s at Pune, and Charney Road and Thane - Mumbai

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Energy Efficiency

  • Building Energy Disclosure Laws for Indian Cities: An exploration. Grant in support of ‘The Future is Now, India’ program’s objectives and Institute for Sustainable Communities’ cooperative agreement with the United States Department of State, Montpelier, VT, USA. 2016-17    
  • Integrated Design, sustainability assessment and master planning for a low carbon campus, Christian Hospital, Chhatarpur, MP. 2015-16
  • Machine learning applications and algorithms for automated Measurement and Verification (M&V) in commercial buildings. Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA. 2015
  • Energy performance benchmarking for hospital buildings in India, BEE's commercial building star labeling program, Shakti Sustainable Energy foundation, Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Ministry of Power, Government of India. New Delhi
  • Task lead, Monitoring and Benchmarking sub task, US – India Energy Cooperation, Partnership to Advance Clean Energy Research (PACE-R), with industry partner Schneider Electric (India) Pvt. Ltd. Gurgaon
    • Building energy benchmarking in India: an action plan for advancing the state-of-the-art. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. LBNL-6939E. CBERD. 2014
    • Exploratory data analysis of Indian hotel benchmarking dataset: Key findings and recommendations. CBERD.  2014
    • Goals and use cases for Indian benchmarking program. CBERD.  2013
  • Analysis and optimization of energy audit processes in hotel buildings in the Asia Pacific region, Schneider Electric (India) Pvt. Ltd. Gurgaon
  • Optimizing construction assembly and evaluating passive downdraught evaporating cooling techniques to enhance thermal comfort for the new campus of IIT Gandhinagar, HCP Design, Planning and Management. Ahmedabad 
  • Energy performance based benchmarking and rating of commercial buildings in India, Technical assistance to the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Ministry of Power, Government of India, USAID ECO-III project. New Delhi
    • Post occupancy energy usage analysis for Infosys IT Buildings at Bengaluru campus using hourly sub-metered data, USAID ECO-III project. New Delhi
    • Web based tool development for performance assessment and labeling (www.eetools.in)
    • Envisioning Benchmarking Roadmap & Framework, ReportNo.1041, ECO-III. September 2011
    • Performance Based Rating and Energy Benchmarking, Report No.1032, ECO-III. September 2011
    • Methodology to benchmark, evaluate performance and label energy consumption for commercial buildings in India
    • Preliminary data analysis of energy usage in commercial buildings in India, Report No. 1042, ECO-III. September 2011
  • Policy paper and development of tiers for ECBC compliance, CEPT University, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation 
  • Pilot building energy simulation and documentation towards capacity building in Energy Conservation Building Code, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Govt. of India with CEPT University, USAID ECO-III project 
  • Architect Design Team for the CEPT REEC Net Zero Energy Building, Ahmedabad Pilot Building Energy Simulation and Documentation for the USAID funded ECO-III project towards capacity building in Energy Conservation Building Code, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Govt. of India. Center for Environment Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad

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Planning & Advocacy

  • Building Energy Disclosure Laws for Indian Cities: An exploration. Grant in support of ‘The Future is Now, India’ program’s objectives and Institute for Sustainable Communities’ cooperative agreement with the United States Department of State, Montpelier, VT, USA. 2016-17
  • Open data for informal settlements: Toward a user’s guide for urban managers and planners, 2015. Coauthored with Arnab Chakraborty, Bev Wilson, Arnab Jana. Journal of Urban Management, Volume 4, Issue 2
  • The status review of the efficiency of the urban built environment in India. ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability - South Asia. New Delhi
  • Economic and demographic forecasting modeling for the Champaign Urbana metropolitan area, with LEAM Group. USA
  • Long range comprehensive planning for St. Louis Region using cellular automata based spatial dynamic model to evaluate impact of alternative policy decisions on regional sustainability – social, economic and environmental with LEAM Group. USA
  • Socio economic survey of construction workers in Ahmedabad, Saath. Ahmedabad
  • Comprehensive Infrastructure Plan, Barmer, Rajasthan, IL&FS and Nabard
  • Advisory services to PDCOR (a joint venture between IL&FS Limited and Government of Rajasthan) over the Jawaharl Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. Jaipur
  • Comparative study of strategic socio-economic issues in post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction in India, Turkey and Taiwan for Mid-American Earthquake Center. USA
  • Consultant to National Center for Disaster Management, Indian Institute of Public Administration. New Delhi, India

o    High Powered Committee report compilation on recommendations for a National Plan on disaster emergencies 
o    Conducted an independent pilot study for ADPC, Bangkok on disaster preparedness of Delhi

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Heritage and Community

  • Concept and project development for the Heritage walk at Chowkdi Modikhana, Walled City, Jaipur with Jaipur Virasat Foundation. Jaipur
  • Conservation in the Netherlands: Frameworks, Strategies and Impacts, NEURUS Fellowship. Groningen. The Netherlands
  • A community based revitalization strategy for the South End Neighborhood Project (East St. Louis Action Research Project), East St. Louis. USA
  • Initiative for planned and participatory reconstruction of Bhuj, USAID as a part of Environment Planning Collaborative EPC, a ‘not for profit organization’. Ahmedabad, India
  • Conservation of terracotta temple (case of the 16th century Janaki Ballabh temple) with Prof. S. K. Das. IIT Kharagpur. Midnapur

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Data analysis, Modeling and Visualization

  • Open data for informal settlements: Toward a user’s guide for urban managers and planners, 2015. Coauthored with Arnab Chakraborty, Bev Wilson, Arnab Jana. Journal of Urban Management, Volume 4, Issue 2
  • Machine learning applications and algorithms for automated Measurement and Verification (M&V) in commercial buildings. Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA. 2015
  • Tool to interactive visualize the policy landscape related to the urban built environment in India. ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability - South Asia. New Delhi
  • Optimizing construction assembly to enhance thermal comfort for the new campus of IIT Gandhinagar, HCP Design, Planning and Management. Ahmedabad 
  • Analysis and optimization of energy audit processes in hotel buildings in the Asia Pacific region, Schneider Electric (India) Pvt. Ltd. Gurgaon
  • Task lead, Monitoring and Benchmarking sub task, US – India Energy Cooperation, Partnership to Advance Clean Energy Research (PACE-R), with industry partner Schneider Electric (India) Pvt. Ltd. Gurgaon
    • Building energy benchmarking in India: an action plan for advancing the state-of-the-art. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. LBNL-6939E. CBERD. 2014
    • Exploratory data analysis of Indian hotel benchmarking dataset: Key findings and recommendations. CBERD.  2014
  • Energy performance benchmarking for hospital buildings in India, BEE's commercial building star labeling program, Shakti Sustainable Energy foundation, Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Ministry of Power, Government of India. New Delhi
  • Performance of the FGS3SLS estimator in small samples: A Monte Carlo study, 2013. Co-authored with Kieran P. Donaghy and Geoffrey J.D. Hewings. Working Paper. Regional Economics Application Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL
  • Energy performance based benchmarking and rating of commercial buildings in India, Technical assistance to the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Ministry of Power, Government of India, USAID ECO-III project. New Delhi
    • Post occupancy energy usage analysis for Infosys IT Buildings at Bengaluru campus using hourly sub-metered data, USAID ECO-III project. New Delhi
    • Web based tool development for performance assessment and labeling
    • Envisioning Benchmarking Roadmap & Framework, ReportNo.1041, ECO-III. September 2011
    • Performance Based Rating and Energy Benchmarking, Report No.1032, ECO-III. September 2011
    • Preliminary data analysis of energy usage in commercial buildings in India, Report No. 1042, ECO-III. September 2011
  • Socio economic survey of construction workers in Ahmedabad, Saath. Ahmedabad
  • Spatial socio economic survey of informal settlements in Jodhpur, Unnati. Ahmedabad
  • Coupled Input-Output econometric modeling for LEAM group, IL, USA
    • Economic and Demographic forecasting model for the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area, LEAM Group. IL, USA
    • Long range comprehensive planning model for the St. Louis region using cellular automata based spatial dynamic model to evaluate impact of economic policy decisions on regional sustainability – social, economic and environmental, LEAM Group. IL, USA  
  • Development of regional economic and social dynamics forecasting modules for the Land-use Evaluation and impact Assessment Model, LEAM laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL, USA
    • Three essays on social dynamics and land-use change: Framework, model and estimator, Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
    • Conceptual model to identify potential public investment areas to maximize returns on regional government expenditure, applied to the 10 county region of St. Louis, USA, LEAM laboratory. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
    • Spatial interaction model using FGS3SLS estimator to analyze the impacts of urban distress on regional growth and explore the impacts of remedial policies, applied to the 10 county region of St. Louis, USA, LEAM laboratory. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
    • Urban distress as a driver for land-use change, 2005. Coauthored with Varkki, G. P., Parul Choudhary, & Brian Deal. 52nd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Las Vegas, NV
    • Coupled Input-Output econometric model to analyze changes in regional economic and demographic structures and predict its impact on future land-use under alternative policies, LEAM laboratory. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
    • Economic and demographic modeling for the Tri County region of Peoria, USA, LEAM laboratory. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
    • Modeling Social Issues and Land-Use Change, 2005. Coauthored with Parul Choudhary. 2005. Gateway Blueprint Model Workshop Technical paper, East-west Council of Governments, St. Louis, MO
    • Modeling the regional economy, 2005. Gateway Blueprint Model Workshop Technical paper, East-west Council of Governments, St. Louis, MO
    • Modeling the economy to drive land-use change, 2005. Coauthored with Varkki, G. P., Kieran P. Donaghy & Brian Deal. American Collegiate School of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO
    • Enhancing data input for transportation modeling, 2005. Coauthored with Varkki G. P, S. Zhanli & Brian Deal. Census Data for Transportation Planning: Preparing for the Future, Transportation Research Board Conference and Proceedings, Newport Beach, CA
    • Integrated economic and demographic model for land-use change, 2003. Coauthored with Kieran P. Donaghy. American Planning Association (APA) Annual Conference, Denver, CO

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