Aalok Deshmukh: Senior Consultant

Contact Information

Rocky Mountain Institute
Attn: Built Environment Team
1820 Folsom Street
Boulder, Colorado 80302

e-mail: BET@rmi.org
phone: 303-245-1003

Aalok Deshmukh: Senior Consultant

Aalok provides strategic corporate-, development- and building-level sustainability research and consulting services at RMI. With a background in architecture, a subsequent specialization in building science and an emphasis on energy efficiency; Aalok provides input on dozens of projects within the Built Environment team and across RMI.

RMI Projects

Aalok’s contributions to projects at RMI include:

Corporate Sustainability Strategy – Aalok is currently providing strategic consulting services including environmental benchmarking and reporting mechanisms for large corporations with total annual revenues of over $22 billion, with over 90 million square feet of real estate holdings, and more than 220,000 employees.

City and Development-scale – From having provided sustainable development guidelines for the City of Kigali, Rwanda; Aalok is currently involved in large neighborhood development projects totaling over 21,000 acres, with over 32,000 homes, and 15 million square feet of non-residential space.

Building-level – Apart from providing input on a variety of projects ranging from U.S. National Parks Services’ visitors centers, to datacenters and computer chip manufacturing plants; Aalok is currently involved with a variety of high-performance building projects including a materials and life sciences laboratory (315,000 s.ft.) in Pennsylvania, USA; a continuing care retirement community (550,000 s.ft.) in Hawaii, USA; and a net-energy-producing office building (800,000 s.ft.) in Paris, France.

Research and grant-funded projects – Aalok has been involved in recent research efforts on strategies to enable the incorporation of energy efficiency in corporate real estate, and on the benefits of high-performance schools. He is also currently working on a program that brings together the world’s largest cities, building owners, banks and energy-service companies to identify energy efficiency retrofits to existing buildings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Background

Aalok Deshmukh has experience spanning contributions to more than 100 projects, including experience in energy analysis, energy auditing, commissioning and retro-commissioning; as well as building simulation, including energy modeling and computational fluid dynamics tools. Aalok is a licensed architect in India; where he was also briefly involved in research and teaching. He has a Master’s degree in building science from Arizona State University; and has published several peer-reviewed technical and research papers at national and international conferences. He has also participated successfully, as team leader as well as team member, in several architectural competitions. He is a LEED Accredited Professional and part of the LEED certification review team; and has served as an elected member on the LEED NC Core Committee. He has a keen interest in the development and application of appropriate technologies, standards, and sustainability indicators as they pertain to the environmental impact of buildings—across various corporate and international contexts in general—and especially in India and other developing economies.

Past Projects

At Farnsworth Group, Inc., Aalok worked as a Senior Consultant on a variety of projects involving LEED Consulting, LEED Energy Modeling, LEED Commissioning, Start-Up Commissioning, Retro-Commissioning / Energy Audits and the Total Building Commissioning Process. Relevant projects include:

Building Commissioning – Aalok provided total building commissioning services, to facilitate the project’s LEED goals, where applicable; for projects such as Brown University’s Life Sciences Building in Providence, Rhode Island (200,000 sq. ft., $50 million); Duke University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering & Medical Applied Sciences (CIEMAS) in Durham, North Carolina (240,000 sq. ft., $100 million); and Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s (CDC) Global Communications Center & Museum (Building 19) in Atlanta, Georgia (state-of-the-art $62.5 million facility).

Retro-Commissioning - Aalok was part of the team that carried out comprehensive facility surveys and energy audits in providing retro-commissioning services under California’s Building Tune-Up program for the Marriott Desert Springs luxury resort in Palm Desert, California (1,100,000 sq. ft.) and the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa in Indian Wells, California, (675,000 sq. ft.).

Education

Master of Science, Arizona State University; Tempe, Arizona; 2004
Bachelor of Architecture, Academy of Architecture; Mumbai, India; 2001

Qualifications

Licensed Architect, India
LEED Accredited Professional, USGBC

Professional Affiliations/Recognition

Elected Member, USGBC LEED NC Core Committee, 2006-07
Appointed Member, ASHRAE Vision 20/20 Ad Hoc Committee, 2006-07
Peer Reviewer, Corporate & Institutional Sustainability, Greenbuild 2007
USGBC Technical Consultant (Certification Reviews)

Publications