Merlyn Mathew Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

New York, United States

Manage a global project portfolio that is focused on advancing health, sustainability and well-being in buildings.

New York, United States

Provided consulting services for new and existing building and facility types for health and wellness integration into operational policies, maintenance protocols, stakeholder engagement and emergency plans.

Greater New York City Area

• Worked closely with design and construction project teams to establish, track and highlight projects’ sustainability and wellness goals.
• Managed a portfolio of clients, assisting in the implementation and validation of the WELL Building Standard™ for over 4.5 million square feet of medium to large scale real estate projects.
• Conducted in-depth discoveries of prospective client projects by reviewing drawings and suggesting innovative strategies to improve health and wellbeing features for a variety of project types (commercial, residential.
• Responded to Requests for Proposals and develop bespoke wellness proposals, consolidating information from industry research.

New York, New York

• Co-authored the chapter “Five Strategies of Socially Smart Cities”, in the peer-reviewed book Architecture and the Smart City.
• Initiated an assessment framework for using Sustainable Development Goals to monitor and evaluate project targets.
• Streamlined reporting of environmental and social KPIs for a microfinance project impacting 500+ women entrepreneurs in India.

Atlanta, Georgia

• Supported the Chief Sustainability Officer in research on products that store carbon under Climate Take Back™
• Developed a comparison of Environmental Product Declaration of products in Microsoft Excel.
• Authored website content for ‘Factory as a Forest’ project about biomimicry in building design.

Mumbai Area, India

• Supported the Financing Sustainable Cities Initiative work on Transit Oriented Development (TOD) policy.
• Worked with the Delhi Development Authority and co-authored graphical interpretation manual on Delhi TOD Policy
• Co-authored research pieces, manuals and articles on financing urban infrastructure, TOD, real estate regulation, land value capture, impact of mass transit on residential neighborhoods in Delhi requiring research and.
• Supervised and trained 3 interns, focusing on Land Value Capture for financing TOD.
• Analyzed data on de-congesting historic core of Ahmedabad to develop a pedestrianization plan; the project was part of the successful bid for World Heritage status.Successes:
• TOD manual recognized by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India.

Bengaluru Area, India

Prepared drawings for projects including Residences in Bangalore and Calicut, ESIC hospital projects in Bangalore, as-built and revision drawings and prepared a presentation for Heritage Park in Mysore.

Master Of Science - Ms, Sustainability Management

Activities and Societies: Vice President, CU Sustainability Management Alumni Board Director, Alumni Outreach - Sustainability Management.

Master'S Degree, Urban Policy & Governance

Master’s Dissertation: Handbook to help citizens’ advocacy groups understand Public Private Partnership

Bachelor Of Architecture (B.Arch.), Architecture

Activities and Societies: Member of Acting team of the Thespian' Society of NIT Trichy (English Dramatics Society)Architectural Thesis.