Ashish Rakheja

Ashish Rakheja is partner at AEON Consultants. He is a seasoned consulting engineer who has designed over 4,000 projects including hotels, airports, hospitals, high rises, retail, residential, and commercial spaces, and industrial projects. Rakheja specializes in high-performance buildings and has been actively involved in leading design activities of electro-mechanical services for 10 Net Zero Energy Buildings, two Net Zero Water Townships and over 80 platinum-rated green projects in India. He is spearheading the green building movement in India as the Chairman of the Technical Committee of Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). Rakheja is a board member at ASHRAE, USA.

Rakheja has won many awards and delivered over 2,000 talks on various facets of building design across the world.  He is an active member of over 20 technical societies and regularly contributes his time on writing standards, codes, and position papers for government bodies and yechnical societies. He is involved in imparting training to budding architects in the field of building services and a visiting faculty at leading schools in India.

Has he really delivered over 2,000 talks? That seems like a very high number of talks