About me
Kartikeya is an Associate Director and Sustainability Lead at PRP, and a Module Leader at the University of Westminster's master's programme in Architecture and Environmental Design. With over twelve years of professional and seven years of academic experience, he has led the environmental design for numerous schemes and delivered some of the most sustainable buildings in the UK and abroad. This includes Kingston University's Town House - RIBA Stirling Prize Winner 2021, LSE's Centre Building - Winner of the RIBA National Award & Civic Trust Award 2021, Noida International Airport - Winner of the AR Future Project Award 2022, and the recently completed Battersea Power Station.
With a strong interest in integrating sustainability at early design stages, he specialises in a variety of state-of-the-art environmental simulation techniques such as thermal analysis, daylighting, solar studies, CFD analysis, indoor and outdoor thermal comfort studies, embodied carbon/WLCA, operational energy assessment, and the application of parametric tools for optimisation, among others. He has created a range of bespoke environmental analysis tools, namely LCA & Embodied Carbon, for which his work has been regularly shortlisted for the Building Simulation Awards.
He has a keen interest in expanding the realm of integrated passive design, climate-responsive buildings, designing for well-being and exploring the use of computational parametric modelling in evolving the building design process. Through his experience of working in the building services industry coupled with his architectural background, he has developed an in-depth knowledge of the two disciplines and the overall environmental performance of buildings.
Teaching
Kartikeya has been a member of the Westminster teaching staff since 2018 and has been contributing as a Module Leader for the Master's program in Environmental Design. He brings over 12 years of industry knowledge, along with his certified LCC and LCEA assessor experience, into the team. He also contributes as a technical consultant for BSc Architecture Unit 5 at Bartlett School of Architecture.
Research
Kartikeya has acquired in-depth skills of analysing, designing and, exploring innovative technologies to achieve the best possible passive design solutions and enjoys experimenting with traditional sustainable design technologies. He also created be-spoke environmental analysis tools such as Embodied carbon calculator (LCA tool).
In his academic contributions, he has co-authored research papers for various conferences, including EcoCities, PLEA, BAMB, and CISBAT, and has supervised over 100 master's dissertations in the field of environmental design.