Sustainability Analyst, LCA and EPD
Apr 2024 – PresentWAP Sustainability Consulting (acquired by SLR Consulting)
Full-time · United States firm, working remotely from India
- 40+ LCA and EPD projects so far for 20+ manufacturers in ten sectors: carpet and textiles, contract furniture, electrical equipment, electronics and wiring, precast concrete, insulated facade panels, tile, wood-alternative decking, cement additives and window shades.
- Build cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave models to ISO 14040/44 from primary data collected directly from clients' plant and engineering teams, then write the Type III declarations to ISO 14025 and EN 15804.
- Lead LCA practitioner on the Iowa Department of Transportation highway diamond grinding study (2026). Built the gate-to-gate model in Sphera LCA for Experts (ISO 14040/44, ISO 21930, IPCC AR6, TRACI 2.2) from the grinding contractor's own data, checked the results against the UCPRC pavement preservation method, and wrote the background report the agency will use for its future EPDs.
- Deliver verified declarations under five program operators, each with its own PCRs and verification process: UL Solutions, NSF, EPD International, EPD North America and SCS Global Services.
- Build multi-region EPDs for product families sold in North America, China, Australia and EMEA/APAC, handling different grid mixes, supply chains and program operator rules inside one parent model.
- ABB (NEMA and ELIP divisions): PEP ecopassport declarations for load centres, fuses and multi-product plant portfolios, modelled in EIME, including converting existing LCAs to PEP format and supporting verification.
- Legrand: 13 PEP ecopassport declarations for the Connectrac and LUXUL lines, with Cablofil declarations in progress.
- Milliken Floor Covering: parent and supplemental LCA models, EPDs authored through openEPD, and yearly upkeep of a 28-EPD portfolio across North America, China and Australia.
- Haworth and MillerKnoll: seating, storage and workspace EPDs, including twelve supplemental LCAs and supplier data for a bio-based resin.
- All Weather Insulated Panels: product-specific EPDs, EC3 database management and a LEED EPD optimisation assessment. Also worked with the program operator team on the EPD World portal, using openEPD machine-readable data.
- Other work: a corporate GHG inventory and SBTi targets for a global management consultancy, an embodied-carbon and healthy-materials policy pilot for a residential developer, and a comparative LCA of precast concrete infrastructure products.
Sustainability Consultant / LCA Consultant
Apr 2022 – Feb 2024BEE Incorporation
Full-time
- Carried out construction and interior-design LCAs for luxury retail and hospitality brands, including five whole-building LCAs.
- Worked with a University of Cambridge researcher on a sustainable metals case study that fed into a luxury brand's materials strategy.
- Rolled out the MATTER.build platform to client teams for embodied carbon, material health and circularity data.
- Applied passive house design strategies on residential projects in Hong Kong and ran client training workshops on them.
- Ran UL indoor air quality audits and WELL performance verification testing, and supported LEED, LIFE and IGBC submissions.
- Calculated corporate and product carbon footprints and built science-based reduction pathways.
Sustainability Consultant Trainee
Nov 2021 – Apr 2022Greentree Global Pvt. Ltd.
Full-time
- LCA consultant for The Link in Nocatee, Florida: material carbon footprint in One Click LCA, reviewing EPDs and self-declarations for LEED credits.
- Prepared IGBC EB-OM documentation for The DRM, a heritage building in Mumbai Central, and IGBC MRTS documentation for the Mumbai metro, including the technical reports and compliance narratives.
Design Expert
Sep 2021 – Mar 2022Homelane.com
Part-time, freelance, held concurrently with the Greentree role
- 3D models, layouts and production drawings for home interiors, plus client quotations and virtual walkthroughs.
Residential Retrofit, self-directed project
Dec 2020 – Sep 2021Family home, Gujarat, India
Independent project · COVID-19 pandemic period
- Moved back to Gujarat during COVID, when construction hiring in India had mostly stopped, and managed the retrofit of our family home.
- Made the material and construction calls on site. We repaired and reused instead of demolishing and rebuilding, which added roughly ten years to the building's life and avoided the embodied carbon of a new build.
- Took green-building courses and credentials in the same months, which is what led me into sustainability consulting.
Junior Engineer
Dec 2018 – Dec 2020SMR Holdings Pvt. Ltd.
Full-time · promoted from trainee
- Site engineer on structural, interior finishes and landscape work for a commercial mall and a G+5 residential clubhouse.
- Read architectural drawings, managed work schedules and material issue, supervised precast and cast-in-situ lintel production, prepared bar-bending schedules and did total-station setting out.
Intern
Sep 2018 – Dec 2018National Academy of Construction
Full-time
- Trained in 2D and 3D AutoCAD and Revit, bar-bending schedules, plumbing and electrical systems, and quality control testing of construction materials.