my journey

day 12,265

mapping my pursuit of

sustainability

influence | learn | practice | teach | research

influence

dad’s waste paper recycling plant (godown)

year 0 - 16

influence

toys from found objects at dad’s godown

year 0 - 16

influence

year 0 - 16

building clay houses at

grandma’s village during

summer break

influence

year 16 - 20

concrete strength testing with replacement of cement with local red sand

influence

year 16 - 20

volunteer at NSS (national student

services) – rural India flood water

management project

influence

year 16 - 20

volunteer at NSS (national student services) – rural India community water tank project for clean water

learn

year 20 - 21

product research – ETFE – fluorine based plastic with high insulation characteristics

learn

year 20 - 24

adaptability and sustainability – thesis – college building design

Anidolic Lighting Systems

Radiance

learn

year 20 - 24

adaptability and sustainability – thesis – daylighting analysis

learn

year 20 - 24

technology award – book on ‘building skins’ for integrating sophisticated tool into design process

practice

year 24 - 27

introduced RADIANCE as a daylighting tool to optimize fenestration design

practice

year 24 - 27

initiated and championed process of compliance with IECC using COMCheck program

practice

year 24 - 27

first tool to help infuse sustainability into design process

practice

year 27 - 30

led LEED project pursuit on first state funded LEED Silver certified Elementary School in AZ

practice

year 27 - 30

championed architecture 2030 – led the

communication efforts on 2010 imperative – a global

emergency teach-in

practice

year 27 - 30

led Phoenix office green team in

influencing office culture and design

process

practice

year 27 - 30

initiated the thought process for sustainability discussions within the group using MS Sharepoint

practice

year 27 - 30

created a sustainability action plan for the Phoenix office

practice

year 27 - 30

assembled a list of services based on expertise around

the company

practice

year 27 - 30

part of Community Building Consortium, a member committee within Greater Phoenix Economic Council and developed a road map document for ‘sustainable cities’

practice

year 30+

version 3 of DLR SOM to accommodate LEED 2009 rating systems using MS Excel macros

practice

year 30+

developed a database to capture high performance design services profit

and loss for analysis and forecasting

practice

year 30+

created a ‘K-12 Energy Reduction Worksheet’ to handout to clients in pursuit of ENERGY STAR awards

practice

year 30+

developed a complete rainwater harvesting system design to comply with City of Tucson future mandates

practice

year 30+

created a dynamic online tool using MS Sharepoint to investigate rainwater harvesting potential based on landscape design

practice

year 30+

created a tool to size rainwater/condensate water storage tanks

practice

year 30+

AZ first near-net zero elementary school with an intelligent rainwater harvesting system

practice

year 30+

conducted post-occupancy survey on

first leed silver certified college in AZ

practice

year 30+

created a unique way to measure a

performance of a school dubbed ‘amoeba map’

practice

year 30+

created and continue curating an online portal for all things sustainable

within the organization using MS Sharepoint

practice

year 30+

developed a unique way to communicate energy performance of a building using sankey flow diagrams (dubbed ‘predicted energy use diagram’)

practice

year 30+

used sankey diagrams to compare energy

consumption between design

solutions

practice

year 30+

used sankey diagrams to compare peak loads

between design solutions

teach

year 30+

teach courses on energy and conceptual

building energy analysis tools

teach

year 30+

started ‘www.visualizegreen.com’ as personal blog to communicate passion for sustainability

research

year 30+

selected as one of the two thought leaders within the firm to participate in LBNL

Guaranteed Energy Performance Partnership

towards research activities

research

year 30+

researching on biodynamic and climate sensitive

building facades using Rhinoceros, grasshopper,

firefly and DIVA

my journey

day 12,265

mapping my pursuit of

sustainability

influence | learn | practice | teach | research

my journey

year 30+

tools I continue to learn through the journey