Richie Mittal is Director of OVERDRIVE Engineering Pvt Ltd, a company specializing in Energy Efficient Design, Passive and Engineering in Air conditioning and cooling system, Indoor Air Quality and Geothermal for ENCLOSED FACILITIES., Energy Audit, Green Building, Third Party Commissioning and TAB (Testing, Adjusting & Balancing). He is Graduate engineer from BIT Mesra in 1983 and Master of Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering in 1984.
He has experience of 37 years in this industry and also is guest lecturer in many Engineering colleges including IIT.
Presently, he is Director & Regional Chair (Region at Large) at ASHRAE, Board of Director – Indoor Air Quality Association Inc (USA), Immediate Past President of ISHRAE , Founder Member – International Ground Source Heat Pump Association (USA)-India Chapter IGSHPA, Chair– Research in ASHRAE for TC 5.7 for Evaporative Cooling, Member - R&D Project Sectorial Appraisal Committees (RDSPAC) for Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHP’s) of MNRE (Ministry of New & Renewable Energy), Technical Committee – GRIHA and Ttechnical Advisor in TERI.