Rupesh Iyengar, Ph.D. has been appointed a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) by ASHRAE.

He was a university topper in Refrigeration & Air-conditioning during his Bachelor’s course in Mechanical Engineering from BMSCE, Bengaluru. He also won the Gold Medal in Sustainability during his Masters of Science from the National University of Singapore. He then pursued his Doctorate of Science in Sustainability and Zero Emission Design from ETH, Zurich and worked at the Future Cities Laboratory. He currently works for his own MEP and Sustainable Design consulting firm, Services Consultants in Bengaluru and Singapore. He is involved in design projects that require MEP Designs, Sustainable Designs and Net Zero Energy Designs. One of his projects themed ‘Resilient to Climate Change’ won the Green Design Award of Merit at the International Green Building Congress, Singapore. His Net Zero Energy Building Design project ‘Puma Sustainable Store, Bangalore’ won two design awards, namely the Bry-Air Award and the Emerson Cup.