Vikram Murthy has spent 35 years as Owner/Director of two Companies in Mumbai, India, that design, install, and maintain HVAC&R systems for a large number and variety of commercial, residential, educational, hospitality, and healthcare buildings and special application projects in industrial air conditioning and refrigeration. Prior to that he performed similar assignments for 10 years at two leading Indian companies that manufactured HVAC&R equipment under license from Carrier and Trane respectively. Vikram received a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India. Vikram and his colleagues are representatives for AHRI (Air Conditioning Heating & Refrigeration Institute) in India for certification of HVAC&R Equipment, assisting India Standards Development institutions and liaising with Government Departments and Regulators for minimum performance standards of energy efficiency and indoor environment quality. Another business vertical he heads does training of professionals working for large HVAC&R companies. Vikram has published several articles in the Indian Journal of Air Conditioning & Refrigeration and has authored successive editions of the Indian Weather Data Book.Vikram has lectured and conducted workshops, for decades, on a variety of technical subjects related to building services across India, overseas, and via online platforms. He is a member of several technical groups in India and advisor to the Government of India’s Ministry for Housing & Urban Development. He has long served on ASHRAE TC 5.2 for Duct Design on multiple subcommittees. Vikram has been an ASHRAE Member since 2007 and is a Presidential Member of ISHRAE (Indian Society of Heating Refrigerating & Air Conditioning Engineers).