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Akshay Padwal is a Mechanical Engineer, an Energy Modeler, and a Product Manager. He has…
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Akshay Vilas Padwal shared thisIt was great to catchup with my friend Mostafa Tahmasebi with TRC Companies, Inc.! Touched on many topics including building perfomance, real estate, upcoming technologies all while enjoying Atlanta’s weather and architecture! ☀️🕶️
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Akshay Vilas Padwal shared this#EnergyModeling edition 🙃 Why does the California #Title24 energy standard has 16 climate zones as compared to the #ASHRAE's 8 Climate zones for the whole continent? The reaction:
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Akshay Vilas Padwal shared thisOne of the great days here at HDR to give something back to various communities via the HDR Foundation (https://lnkd.in/ejjxxtfa) day of giving. Atlanta office held a bake-off competition, and the entries were extremely well done!! Posting this as I'm enjoying a piece of cake and a tart 😋
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Akshay Vilas Padwal shared thisTeam HDR Atlanta had fun yesterday talking with Kennesaw State University 🦉 students at the STEM Career Fair about all the amazing things we do every day and the 100% employee-owned culture! Definitely a great way to spend the birthday!! 😄
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Akshay Vilas Padwal shared thisHDR Atlanta office will be hosting a booth at the Kennesaw State University STEM Job Fair on Feb 25th, 2026, 11am-3pm. Drop by for a conversation about all the wonderful things that HDR does. See you there!
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Akshay Vilas Padwal reposted thisAkshay Vilas Padwal reposted thisLove creating order and shaping culture? We're looking for someone who thrives on organizing data and systems while also helping build a positive, connected workplace. Join HDR’s Atlanta Architecture Studio—we’re hiring a Project Coordinator! This role will be the heartbeat of our studio—driving collaboration and supporting our growth. What you’ll do: ✅ Support project managers with reporting, systems, and admin tasks ✅ Assist with studio strategy, tools, and initiative implementation We’re looking for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, loves collaboration as much as they love a good spreadsheet, and wants to make an impact on our culture and success. Know someone who’d be a great fit? Tag them or share this post! Let’s find the next amazing addition to our team!! https://lnkd.in/eNdt3HZ2 #WeAreHiring #AtlantaJobs #HDRArchitecture
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Akshay Vilas Padwal reposted thisAkshay Vilas Padwal reposted thisI lead HDR's Mechanical business in Missouri and Kansas. Our work encompasses hospitals/healthcare, data centers, water-wastewater, rail/transportation, and resources, among many other types. We're expanding our group of talented engineers and BIM professionals in all areas, but are focusing on the following types especially right now: - Expansion of our water-wastewater facilities: chemical feed areas, NFPA 820 explosion-hazard areas, general ventilation and freeze protection in central processing plants and distributed pumping stations. - Resources facilities handling trash transfer and recycling, similar to our work for Republic Waste Management and the St. Louis Development Corporation. - Transportation facilities like our vehicle maintenance areas for the Kansas City Streetcar, freight rail, and aviation projects such as our work at St. Louis' Lambert International Airport. Please reach out to me if joining our team at HDR to lead these tasks is your passion. Our structure is built (and our goal is) for you to lead a team of up to 11 or so engineers and BIM professionals in the pursuit of project excellence and making our clients proud to partner with us. I look forward to working with you!
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Akshay Vilas Padwal shared thisEveryone who's heading to #Greenbuild this year in LA 🌴 , feel free to connect with HDR's very own Seth Strongin to chat about #decarbonization!Akshay Vilas Padwal shared thisI'm attending the Greenbuild International Conference + Expo 2025, the world’s largest annual event for green building professionals. Join me! https://lnkd.in/gqx_796b #Greenbuild Use code INGOGRB to receive $50 off your Conference Pass OR a free Expo Pass!
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Akshay Vilas Padwal reposted thisAkshay Vilas Padwal reposted thisCelebrating the power of employee ownership. As a 100% employee-owned company, our employees guide our culture and have the opportunity to share in the success of our company. #EmployeeOwnershipMonth #ESOP
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Akshay Vilas Padwal liked thisAkshay Vilas Padwal liked thisI’m excited to share that I will be attending and presenting at this year’s SimBuild conference. My presentation topic is: 📢 “Early Phase Integrated Design Decision Making with Building Performance Analysis - A Renovation Project Case Study” 🥂 Please join me this May in Minneapolis for one of the most exciting events in the building simulation industry, bringing together practitioners, researchers, and students from around the world to explore cutting-edge technologies and innovations in building performance simulation. 🎫 Registration and workshop information: https://lnkd.in/dAfEEgiH 📜 Conference agenda: https://lnkd.in/dhYfcbB4 #simbuild2026 #simbuild #IBPSA-USA Newcomb & Boyd, LLP
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Akshay Vilas Padwal liked thisI promise energy code is not the only thing I do but I got myself another energy code presentation and this time it's the NYCECC and NYC ASHRAE 90.1! Join me at the landmark Empire State Building for a fun energy code session (I promise I will make it fun)! Thanks to our IBPSA-USA NYC Chapter and STV!Akshay Vilas Padwal liked thisIBPSA-USA NYC chapter is excited to host a 2025 NYCECC Code Update technical event on Wed, May 13 (4pm-5:30pm) with an in person and virtual option! This event will be led by Weijun Allen Mei, P.E., BEMP, who is the Founder & Principal of Clearbrook Energy Solutions. Please register to attend here: https://luma.com/wu8szn38 We hope you all can join us! Team: Leo L., Yifan Li, Akash Kalyan, Anuradha Kadam, John Battistelli, PE
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Akshay Vilas Padwal liked thisAkshay Vilas Padwal liked thisAs part of celebrating Earth Month, HDR awarded 7 Design teams for “Inspiration towards Regenerative Healthcare Design,” or INSPY’s, at our Health Principals Summit in Chicago. These Hospitals are designed to serve community health with significant reductions in Energy Use Intensity. We are honored to be working with leading healthcare organizations making a difference. -UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital, San Francisco, CA, USA -Intermountain Lutheran Hospital, Wheat Ridge, CO, USA -The New Valley Hospital, Paramus, NJ, USA -The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada -Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital, Picton, ON, Canada -Hospital 2.0, New Hospital Program, NHS, London, UK -Rouse Hill Hospital, Rouse Hill, NSW, Australia
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Akshay Vilas Padwal liked thisI2SL: International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories
I2SL: International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories
Akshay Vilas Padwal liked thisDid you know that you can compare the energy and emissions of your lab buildings to peer facilities? The Labs2Zero Scorecard is a free tool that rates your building energy use and operational emissions performance on a percentile basis from 1 to 100. For example, a score of 75 means your building performs better than 75 percent of similar facilities! Learn more in this brief video and get your free scores today. -
Akshay Vilas Padwal liked thisThank you to Children's Mercy for investing in our kids and our community! All of us at HDR are honored to be part of this exciting chapter! Happy Momentum Day!Akshay Vilas Padwal liked thisMomentum is what brings us together when it’s time to move forward. And for kids’ health, that moment is now. In the years ahead, more families across our region will count on Children’s Mercy for pediatric care, close to home and when it matters most. That growing need is why we’re choosing to act. This week, we announce one of the most ambitious expansions in our 129 year history: a new acute care tower at our Adele Hall campus that creates a new space for our NICU, PICU and an expanded Emergency Department. All designed so that when minutes matter, a bed is there. This expansion is more than a building. It’s a commitment to spaces that support breakthrough care, to give our teams the room to deliver what today’s medicine makes possible and to be there for every child who needs us. As the only free standing children’s hospital within 200 miles of Kansas City, we carry both a responsibility and an opportunity. Because childhood doesn’t wait. And neither can we. We’re ready to build what’s next for the future of pediatrics, together. Join us, KC. Let’s push what’s possible.💙 With momentum. Read more: https://cmkc.link/4n5xFro
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Akshay Vilas Padwal liked thisAkshay Vilas Padwal liked thisTLC completed it's 14th year of AIA 2030 Commitment reporting! We are proud to support our clients in energy modeling and reporting our high performance projects. ⬆️This year we reported 151 projects cumulating to 28,602,446.97 GSF, while that is less total projects than last year (201), it is 4,777,734.55 GSF of more project area! ⬆️ We also increased our % energy modeled by almost 10% compared to last year getting to 39.66%! We are always striving to increase our % modeled with a focus on providing energy modeling insights on our largest and most impactful projects. Our % pEUI reduction increased a marginal 0.98%. Like everyone else, this stagnation is driven by code equivalent project reporting. We need more reporting using energy models with fuel sources to have more accurate, actionable data to enable decision making and whole life GHG emissions calculations. TLC Engineering Solutions #AIA2030Commitment
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Akshay Vilas Padwal liked thisExcited to share that my Ask a Modeler column is featured in the latest IBPSA News, now reaching the global community. It’s exciting to see how quickly the field is evolving, with agentic architectures and reasoning models expanding what’s possible in BEM. Thanks to Dru Crawley for highlighting this edition, and to Jihoon Chung, Andy Berres, Cary Faulkner for the opportunity and support.Akshay Vilas Padwal liked thisRead about the latest news from the IBPSA World community, including updates from BS2027 and related student competition, more events for your calendar, updates from BPS software, and the best from the IBPSA-USA Ask a Modeller column. On top of all this, the cover article on the IBPSA scientific journal, the Journal of Building Performance Simulation, with Jan Hensen, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, and Mike Barker, and an article on educating the next generation of BPS experts, curated by the IBPSA Education Committee chair Pamela Fennell, with PC Thomas, Veronica Garcia-Hansen, Nicki Parker, Rajan Rawal, and Ian Beausoleil-Morrison. Read it all now on the IBPSA website https://lnkd.in/d5FgVZBrNewsletters - International Building Performance Simulation AssociationNewsletters - International Building Performance Simulation Association
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Akshay Vilas Padwal liked thisAkshay Vilas Padwal liked thisAfter a year of design, testing, setbacks, and breakthroughs, I am proud to share my team's journey for this year's Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge hosted by the National Fluid Power Association. What started as an ambitious idea became one of the most challenging yet rewarding projects I've had the opportunity to not only work on but to lead. Beyond the technical build itself, this project highlighted the importance of system-level thinking where mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and electronic components must function as one cohesive system. One of the biggest challenges of this project was the tight schedule. After receiving our new frame in early February, we had less than 8 weeks to design, manufacture, and assemble custom mounts for our hydraulic components, so we could properly test and optimize our system before competition. This constraint pushed us to really focus on practical decision-making and designing for manufacturability, reinforcing an important lesson that engineering is not just about elegant designs, but about creating solutions that can be built, tested, and validated in the real world. After many long hours and relentless effort, we not only competed but placed 3rd overall out of 11 teams from around the country! I'm incredibly grateful to have led such a dedicated and hardworking team. This achievement would not have been possible without each of you. Thank you to Sebastian Flores, Taylor Cullinan, Andro Wincek, Kevin Kellner, Wesley Hathcox, TJ Lovelace, Owen Nelson, Jake Anton, and Jennifer Rosales Sandoval. I'd like to extend my sincere thanks to our advisors, Laura Ruhala and Richard Ruhala, whose guidance and unwavering support were instrumental throughout every stage of this project. I would also like to thank the incredible professors and mentors who generously shared their time, expertise, and guidance along the way, including C. Richard Kennedy, Richard Woodruff, CFPHS, CFPS, Ernie Parker CFPAI CFPCC CFPMIH CFPMMH CFPMIP, Patrick Opdenbosch, Salim Kortobi, CSWE, and many others. Your willingness to invest in us, challenge our way of thinking, and expertise not only contributed to the success of this project but also to our growth and development as engineers. Lastly, thank you to the National Fluid Power Association for making this possible!
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Akshay Vilas Padwal liked thisFor those in Sydney make sure you check out Lin (Leo) Meng, PhD's presentation at Sydney Build. Leo is data, visualization and workflow whisper and has great insights and ideas to share!Akshay Vilas Padwal liked thisLooking forward to joining the panel discussion "Smart Sydney – How Technology is Transforming the Cityscape" at Sydney Build Expo 2026. Excited to share a few thoughts on how technology, open data, and digital workflows are shaping better planning and development outcomes for Sydney. Hope to see many familiar faces there! #SydneyBuild2026 #SmartCities #AI #UrbanDesign #BuiltEnvironment Jeremy Graham Matthew Goldsberry Huai Lim HDR James Strutt Nathaniel Bavinton Reza Tousi Kerli Pohjala M. Hank Haeusler Michael Bain
Experience & Education
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Licenses & Certifications
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LEED AP Building Design + Construction
Green Business Certification, Inc.
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Data Science for Construction, Architecture, and Engineering
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Publications
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Fire Ice An Energy Resource Extracted From Seabed
International Journal of Engineering and Research Technology (IJERT)
Courses
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Analytical Dynamics
EML5215
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Control System Theory
EML5311
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Energy Management for Mechanical Engineers
EML5465
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Geometry of Mechanisms & Robots 2
EML6282
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Geometry of Mechanisms & Robots I
EML6281
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Guidance & Navigation (Control) of Aerospace Vehicles
EAS6415
Projects
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Feedback Controller Design for Linear Plant Model
Identified the plant model using Sine-Sweep method and feedback controller is designed for linear system using optimal control method LQR to satisfy the given loop-shaping conditions and reference tracking conditions.
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Forward & Reverse Dynamical Analysis of Human Walking Model
• Performed inverse/forward dynamics simulations utilizing Motion-Genesis software to generate equations of motion.
• Modeled head and torso as a cuboid and legs as cylinders to simplify geometrical dimensioning calculations.
• Performed sensitivity analysis to study the effect of leg length on torque at the hip joint.
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Reverse Analysis of Robot Cincinnati Milacron T3-776
• Calculated 8 possible sets of values of joint angles for 6-arm mechanism with given constant values of link lengths, twist angles, input & output joint angles and hypothetical closure link parameters.
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Design and Fabrication of Flexural Based Linear Guideway for MicroDrilling Workstation
• Developed economic alternative for micro-drilling process using flexural discs of material Beryllium-Copper.
• Analyzed the CAD drawing of proposed micro-drilling machine utilizing Finite Element Analysis.
• Developed the working prototype of the product which can drill holes accurately up to 0.2 mm diameter in acrylic sheet.
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Design of Electric Overhead Travelling (EOT) Crane.
Performed the theoretical role of Procurement Manager while working with a team consisting of 10 members. Team designed and analyzed each part of EOT crane separately with the help of CATIA & ANSYS. Awarded best team among class by the instructor.
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Nonlinear System Feedback DCAL Controller Design
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• Designed a link position tracking controller considering sensor noise for a 2-link direct drive robot.
• Generated torque commands using designed controller to individual robot links based on adaptive estimates of the system parameters.
• Performed stability analysis based on Lyapunov Stability Theory and presented Simulink results to demonstrate the effectiveness of designed controller.
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Effect of atmospheric drag on Hohmann transfer
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• Calculated forward dynamics of the Hohmann transfer utilizing Runge-Kutta (RK4) numerical integrator.
• Implemented state estimation and a-priori information to plot the circular and elliptical transfer orbits with and without the effect of atmospheric drag and solar radiation pressure.
• Tracked the orbital position and velocity using navigation system comprising of 24-GPS satellites.
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Case Study: Design the Air Conditioning Plan for Given Building.
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With given floor area and room specifications of the building, designed the air conditioning plan in five stages using softwares Carrier HAP, McQuay (Ductsizer, Pipesizer, Psychrometric Analyzer)
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Honors & Awards
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Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Achievement Award Scholarship
University of Florida
University of Florida issued this scholarship considering academic record and other activities during undergraduate studies.
Test Scores
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Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
Score: 97/120
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Graduate Record Examinations (GRE)
Score: 319/340
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Maharashtra Health and Technical Common Entrance Test (MHT-CET)
Score: 176/200
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Secondary School Certificate (SSC)
Score: 100%
Languages
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English
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Marathi
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Hindi
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Sanskrit
Elementary proficiency
Organizations
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ASHRAE
Associate Member
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ASME
Student Member
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