Volunteers
Chetan Mali
Chetan Mali at present serving as Manager-BIM Strategy at L&T Construction. His major role involved within the company to act as a BIM strategist and support Digital Transformation at L&T Construction. He has multidisciplinary and diverse seven years of experience within project management consulting organization including TATA group & top leading consulting firm in India. He has completed masters from University of Salford, UK. The core focus of his master’s dissertation is in performance management for BIM adoption in UK and India context. He is also a Change Agent and BIM implementation Strategist Consultant for BIMCrew OPC Pvt. Ltd helping AECO industry for successful BIM implementation and maturity development.
Pooja
Pooja has a Masters Degree from Civil Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. She is currently pursuing BIM researchS at IISc Bangalore, India. Having gained considerable knowledge in the filed of structural engineering and interacting with the international forum on day to day basis, she is now exploring ways to contribute to the field of research in Civil engineering, through BIM. Also, she is working on BIM maturity in India as her dissertation. She is open to possible futuristic opportunities in the BIM sector. You can reach her at
Vijaya Malla
An accomplished Project Management Professional & BIM enthusiast, who is seeking to diffuse disruptive processes in Indian AECO Industry. She donned diverse roles like Construction Manager, Planning Manager, Project Scheduler and Project Co-ordinator over her ten years career stint in construction industry. In reference to her academic profile, she pursued M.Tech in Construction Technology & Management from IIT Madras and a recipient of Build India Scholarship from M/s L&T(2009) and dual gold-medals (for academic excellence and best outstanding student category) during her undergraduate studies from Andhra University (2003-07). Currently she is working as Assistant Professor in NICMAR, Hyderabad.
Basavaraju Nagenahalli
Basavaraju is a Senior-level professional experienced as Head of Operations, Corporate Real Estate and Facility Operations, Finance, Team Management, Procurement and Project Management for 18+ years driving strategic initiates at organization and BU level. He has managed multiple locations across India, built & trained team and implemented best practices. He has worked on Quality and process audit, gap analysis, implementation of process, policy, procedures and lead ISO certification Strategic plans. He has played role of global internal auditor at various levels and continues process improvements. Proficiency in formulating, developing and implementing business strategy to ensure attainment of organization goal and operations excellence and reducing Opex Y on Y basis. Basavaraju is an MBA Specialized in Project Management & Certified FMP (Facilities Management Professional) from IFMA (International Facility Management Association) USA and first IFMA Certified trainer from India. A Certified PMP (Project Management Professional) from PMI.
Shubham Vijay Bajaj
Shubham Vijay Bajaj is currently pursuing his Msc in Project and Enterprise Management at University College London, UK. He is currently with Invennt Ltd. for Business Analyst Internship. His previous experience involves serving few organizations in project planning and site management. He is currently focused on Integrating project information systems with building information modeling, Strategic financial management of construction and infrastructure projects, Contractual claims and dispute resolution and enterprise management: relationships between firms.
Nipun Verma
I.E.S. officer in the Ministry of Defence with a demonstrated experience of working in the Civil engineering industry particularly in infrastructure management of Roads and Bridges. He has been involved in planning, contract management, land acquisition, large scale surveys, site execution, Estimation, Construction, Management, Training, Research & Technical writing. Having a total work experience in industry and academia of 8 years out of which 3.5 years belong to that of working under extreme climatic conditions (-25 °C) in Border Roads Organization (GOI) in Ladakh region. As a Platoon commander, he was solely responsible for construction & maintenance of 7 Bridges & 62 Km road which connects Siachen with the rest of India. Other work experiences include working with Reliance Infrastructure & ITM University.
Viranj kumar Patel
Viranj is a Digital Transformation Lead at VisiLean Ltd. He has a M.Sc. in Advanced Project Management in Construction from Univ. of Huddersfield. B.Tech in Civil Construction from CEPT University. He focus on BIM and Green Research.
Ashok Kumar
Ashok kumar is an activist in Indian AECO sector. He started as junior engineer and now he has 20yrs of construction field experience in various projects of Industrial, highways, airports and residential, Urban development. He is a certified professional from IGBC and PMI. He is the core convener at IGBC Bangalore Chapter - students and institutions. He is currently serving as Executive Director at Prayojana Institute.
Aritra Pal
Aritra Pal is serving as a Assistant Professor at RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University, Mumbai Campus. His Research focus is towards Building Information Modelling, Lean Construction Practices, Optimization Techniques in Construction, Time/ Cost Relationship of Construction Projects, Construction Economics & Finance, Latest Technologies in Construction and Sustainable construction. He has M.Tech in Construction Technology and Management from IIT Delhi. He can be contacted at
Mosami Sayare
Mosami Sayare is currently volunteer member at India BIM Association. Her current assignment involved, researching into development of BIM dictionary within India context, BIM in education and BIM curriculum framework development for academic institutes and organization in India. She has completed masters from University of Salford, UK and achieved distinction for her dissertation in BIM for comparative study between UK and India. She is Architect with overall experience of more than 4 years and served at global leading project management consulting firm CBRE. She has also independently handled and completed several design development & project management consulting assignment for residential and commercial spaces.
Himanshu Milan
Himanshu Milan serves as an Activist in Digital Transformation for BIM in Indian AECO-Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operation Sector. He is looking forward to mature the Indian AECO sector by proper implementation of BIM. He is also focusing on ascertaining the problems of current construction industry and solving them through Digital Integrated BIM. In addition, he focuses on developing BIM courses according to the market demands for institutes and corporate sector. He is also focused towards BIM policy developments for Indian AECO sector & works on setting up BIM Project strategies & organisational BIM Maturity assessments.
Soumo Bose
Soumo Bose is a Civil Engineer by profession. He is currently part of a PMC team as a project planner-coordinator at Arab Tech Cont LLC-UAE. He has more than five years of experience in Civil related works, as an Entrepreneur-digital marketing and web designing. He serves as a mentor for setting up business strategies and branding. He has worked hand in hand with his clients. He can speak Bengali, hindi, German and Arabic. You can contact Bose on email
Yash Sanghvi
With an avid interest in building information modeling (BIM), Yash is currently working as a researcher at India BIM Association and interning at BIM Academy India. He is trying to help the society by researching on how the best BIM Education system can be developed in India. He has work experience in construction planning & scheduling and also enjoys spending time in the field, learning about various challenges that are faced by engineers at site. He is looking forward to get a professional degree in construction management and benefit the AECO sector by contributing his skills. Feel free to contact him at yash96sanghvi@gmail.com
Bharath Anand
Experienced Project execution and management professional with a demonstrated history of working in the real estate industry. Skilled in Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Project Controlling, Negotiation, Building Information Modelling, & Lean Construction. Strong operations professional with a Master's degree focused in Civil Engineering and construction engineering and management from the United States of America. Displays keen interest towards construction data collection and analysis during the projects and a strong hold on implementing business strategies and adopting relevant technology in the industry.
Ranjith K Soman
Ranjith is a Post doctoral research assistant at Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation, Imperial College London. His doctoral research focused on implementing data-driven methods to improve construction planning in modular offsite construction at ICL, UK. Before moving to Imperial College London, he obtained MSc (by research) in building technology and construction management from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in India. His master’s thesis focused on developing an automated construction progress monitoring system for monitoring metro rail construction.
