48th Edition – Zak World of Façades India

This was the 48th edition globally and 5th edition in New Delhi. It showcased the latest innovations and challenges in the construction industry pertaining to building envelopes and the latest technological solutions.

Speakers and Panelists

Raman Sikka

Director, Sikka Associates

Sushant Verma

Founding Partner, rat(LAB)

Sushant Jai-AmitaVerma is a Design Entrepreneur, Architect, Computational Designer & Educator, currently leading rat[LAB] Studio (Research in Architecture and Technology)(www.rat-lab.org) that investigates intersections of design, art & technology through architecture, interior design, and art installations. He holds a Masters Degree...

Oliver Hans

Senior Innovation Manager, Schüco International

Oliver is an Senior Innovation Manager at Schüco, one of the leading international suppliers of high-quality window, door and façade systems and has over 25 years of experience in buildings and façades. After an apprenticeship as a carpenter and...

Malvinder Singh Rooprai

Senior Technical Program Manager - APAC, Kuraray

Malvinder Singh Rooprai, Architectural Market Development Manager & Technical Consultant for PVB division of Kuraray, is based out of New Delhi – INDIA. His key responsibilities are to grow the market for value added products under the umbrella of Trosifol®...

Nitin Govila

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer + Sr. VP - Asia Pacific + MEA, Serge Ferrari

Nitin Govila is a senior-level International Director with diversified experience in managing business operations in B2B, B2C environments across different business categories at a Regional level. He has also handled international consulting assignments and global projects. Nitin is based out...

Rajeev Antony

Managing Director, Schueco India

Line functions: General Management, CEO, Head of business unit, Start up’s, New Business Development, Field Operations Staff functions: Strategic plans, Board of directors, Business plans, Financial Analysis, Corporate Planning, Product Management, Industrial Marketing 23 Years Experience with 13 years of...

Rai Singh

Managing Director, Green Façade

Rai Singh has expertise in Façade Technology, and has set up a new company Green Façade Solutions Pvt Ltd from scratch in 2010 and provides a leading position in Façade Industry within a short period of time. The company is...

Sourabh Kankar

Marketing Manager - India, Gujarat Guardian

Sourabh Kankar heads Marketing Operation at Gujarat Guardian Limited, a leading manufacturer of float, coated and mirror glass products. A Computer Science graduate with a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing and Finance, Sourabh spent over 14 years in various Technical,...

Sohrab Dalal

Managing Director, Design Plus

Sohrab is the Managing Director of Design plus which is an integrated design consultancy firm having decades of experience in campus, building & interior design. DPA has varied global experience.

Rahul Kumar

Director, Rajendra Kumar Associates

Rahul Kumar has taken forward the rich legacy of Mr. Rajinder Kumar & together they have contributed more to the development of the Indian Tourism Industry than any other firm, by designing the largest number of hotels in the country. RKA...

Rahul Tyagi

Principal Architect, Rahul Tyagi Associates

He did his architecture from MSU baroda and further went on to do Masters in design from IIT delhi. He started his own practice 16 years back and has designed various prestigious projects Pan india, latest being Dr Ambedkar international...

Manish Bhardwaj

Head - Contracts & Procurement, Max Estates

Mr. Manish Bhardwaj is the Contracts & Procurement Head of Max Estates Limited, the real estate subsidiary of MVIL. Manish holds a BE in Civil Engineering from Jamia Millia Islamia, with Advanced Diploma in Business Management, from ICFAI University. Prior...

Partho Dutta

Principal, Populous

Partho is a principal, project designer and master planner working in Populous’ studio in New York. He brings more than 25 years of experience on a variety of large-scale projects both internationally and in the United States. Partho’s primary responsibilities...

Ahmed Sumair

Founder & Director, Sahvia Group

Founder and Director of SAHVIA GROUP, Ahmed has more than18 years of professional experience as façade designer. He believes that a great building must begin with unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the...

Anupam Bansal

Director, ABRD Architects

Anupam Bansal (b. 1969) is an architect, urbanist and academician who co-founded ABRD Architects along with his fellow classmate Rajesh Dongre. Since its inception in 1996 ABRD Architects have won several architectural competitions like the Alliance Francaise de Delhi, Minto...

Mukti Prakash

General Manager - Design, TCG Development

Mukti Prakash is an Architect by profession having more than 18 years of experience in real estate sector. He is currently working with TCG Real Estate at New Delhi with a varied experience in Commercial/IT, Biotechnology & Residential projects.

Pallav Saxena

Senior Vice President - Projects, Lotus Greens

Pallav has nearly 15 years of experience spanning through Construction Industry with onsite experience & Operations Management at Country level. He has a solid track record of successful rollout, management and turnaround through astute planning and execution of various activities...

Varun Juneja

SVP - Architecture, ATS Infrastructures

Varun is a diversified professional experience of over 14years in architecture, site planning, development practices in real estate including project coordination, designing, project liasoning, working drawings, demand assessment, project conceptualizing, and project documentation. He has undertaken projects on various stages...

Sanhita Chaturvedi

Director, UHA India

Sanhita graduated with distinction from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, prior to receiving her M.Arch in Architecture and Urbanism in the DRL Programme (Design Research Lab) at the prestigious Architectural Association, in London. She has worked as...

Prameena Karunairaj

Business Development Manager, FunderMax India

Prameena Karunairaj is a seasoned green professional with over 8 years’ experience in the field of Energy Efficient Façade systems. She is also a LEED GA, IGBC AP and GRIHA trainer. She has provided consultancy to hundreds of projects in...

Eshan Hemrajani

Director, Glass Wall Systems

Eshan completed his civil engineering and an MSC in business Management from the UK. He designed and set up the principal factory at Rasayani for Glass Wall Systems and is currently Heading the Production.

Gautam Bhasin

Regional Director - India, Inhabit Group

Gautam leads Inhabit’s business and presence in the Indian sub-continent as the regional director. With a background in architecture and multi-disciplinary engineering practise through his career, he has worked with leading developers and architects on projects across Hong Kong, Macau,...

Balaji Chandran

Head - Speciality Business, FunderMax India

Balaji has been associated with FunderMax India from past 4+ years and has always had an eye to the details. He has been primarily responsible for façades and structural design of complex building structures involving FunderMax panels for number of...

Kapil Chikodi

Head - Business Development, Glass Wall Systems

Kapil is the head of Business Development in Glass Wall Systems. He looks after the Indian operation & new International Business assignments for Façade Engineering. Glass Wall Systems Pvt Ltd is India’s leading facade fabricator. They provide turnkey architectural facade...

Ravishankar Subramanian

R&D Head, Dow

Ravishankar supports the TS&D team to drive projects in innovation and transformational growth projects. In addition, he has domain expertise in providing design support and demonstrated technical leadership in building facade projects for India, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka. Ravi joined...

Sharanjit Singh

Chairman, GSC Glass

A mechanical engineer by profession, Mr. Singh has wide expertise and in depth knowledge of processing glass for various applications, to the latest international standards. He is the engineering brain behind the new innovations, CAD CAM applications and automation at...

KR Suresh

Regional Director - South Asia, Avante Façades

With a view to lead by example through devoted work ethics and constant innovation, Suresh is one of the most sought after façade consultants of India with a unique approach of integrating and detailing to insure that all elements of...

Tariq Kachwala

Director, FG Glass

Tariq Kachwala is the Director of FG Glass Industries and has 12 years of experience in the glass processing industry. He spearheads marketing, strategy and new business development and is also a consultant to architects and façade specialists on the...

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