About the Speaker & theTopics
Speaker 1: Mr. Arup Majumdar
Arup Majumdar is Director Marketing of Emerson Climate
Technologies Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong. Arup joined
Emerson in 1999 as the Manager of Application Engineering
- Asia Pacific, and moved on to positions of increasing
responsibility in engineering and marketing and was appointed
the Director of Marketing in the year 2002.
Prior to joining Emerson, Arup spent 8 years with Carrier
Corporation in their residential air-conditioning and
transport business in Gurgaon and Bangalore India and
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and his last position was as Manager
– Engineering and Manufacturing, for the transport
business in India.
Arup’s area of interest is modulated system technology
and he has worked extensively with the available technologies
– inverters and the Copeland Digital Scroll. He
was instrumental in introducing the Digital Scroll technology
to multiple OEMs spread across Asia, Middle East, Europe
and North America and establishing this technology as
a strong alternate to the incumbent Japanese inverter.
He has been awarded the Emerson Technology Award for his
contribution to establishing this technology globally.
Arup is a regular speaker on modulated technologies in
various industrial forums globally and has written several
technical articles on this topic.
Arup has a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1988 and an
MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Speaker 2: Dr. Nirmal T Kishnani
Nirmal Kishnani, PhD, trained in Architecture and is
now an educator, Green design consultant and writer based
in Singapore. As design practitioner he worked on several
landmark projects in Singapore until 1998 when, interest
in environmental buildings, led him to a doctorate and
subsequently setting up the first Singapore-based Green
design consultancy. He has since collaborated on projects
across Asia, written and lectured extensively on the subject
of Greening, addressing Green Building Congresses in India,
Taiwan and the Philippines. In 2007 Nirmal accepted a
position with the National University of Singapore where
he teaches sustainability at the Department of Architecture.
He is also Chief Editor of the FuturArc Journal.
Dr Kishnani examines two critical questions concerning
Green buildings:
1. How we describe Green, practically and systematically,
in terms of cost, targets, outcomes
2. How we align the design and construction process towards
Green goals, shaping priorities and breaking down mindsets
The fundamental challenge facing us today in Southeast
Asia in the design of Green buildings is twofold: acquiring
knowledge of how buildings affect the environment, and
knowing what to do with that knowledge once we have acquired
it. The first question of knowledge acquisition is often
answered as a technical proposition: incorporate this
technology here and it will improve performance there.
This mindset has its limitations as it does not offer
the project team a roadmap to decision-making. Dr. Kishnani
breaks down Greening into 4 tiers of action framing knowledge,
and then relates each tier with probable outcome and cost.
The second question of knowledge application challenges
the way in which the project teams operates during the
design process. In the present-day situation, decisions
and budgets are assigned to architects and engineers who
rarely consult each other on overall building performance.
These disciplinary gaps – how each profession defines
performance – are a key reason behind the poor performance
of many buildings. Dr Kishnani discusses the Integrated
Design Approach, a method successfully applied to the
making of high performance buildings.
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