Ashish Rakheja
Ashish Rakheja is Managing Partner at AEON. He holds a postgraduate degree in Thermal Engineering and has over thirty years of work experience.
He is a seasoned consulting engineer who has designed over 4,000 projects including hotels, airports, data centres, hospitals, retail, residential, commercial, high rises and industrial projects. Mr Rakheja specialises in high-performance buildings and has led design activities for electro-mechanical services on eleven Net Zero Energy Buildings, two Net Zero Water Townships and over a hundred Platinum rated green projects in India.
He has been spearheading the green building movement in the country since 2001 and serves as Chairman of the Technical Committee at the Indian Green Building Council. Mr Rakheja is a Presidential member of ISHRAE and the first Indian to be elected Vice President and serve on the Board at ASHRAE, USA.
He has won many awards and delivered over 2,500 talks on facets of building design across the world. He is an active member of more than twenty technical societies and regularly contributes his time to writing standards, codes and position papers for government bodies and technical societies.
Mr Rakheja has been tasked by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (Government of India) to chair the working group creating the Energy Conservation & Sustainability Building Code, and by the Bureau of Indian Standards to lead the committee revising the HVAC section of the National Building Code of India 2025. He also trains architects and engineers in building services and is visiting faculty at leading schools in India.
A well-designed building with great architecture and interior needs to be complemented by equally smart and efficient MEP systems to achieve an iconic or successful status. MEP solutions are the pillar of any building - they ensure safety, comfort, functionality, connectivity and resilience, and the foundation of all of it is laid at the time of design.