British Council Hosts the Great Talk In Mumbai Mumbai, 9 March 2016

BRITISH COUNCIL HOSTS THE GREAT TALK IN MUMBAI Winner of prestigious Laurie Baker Award, Architect Eugene Pandala inspires young students with his GREAT Talk- Affordable Sustainable Buildings Mumbai, 9 March 2016:The British Council today hosted The GREAT Talk in Mumbaiwith Architect Eugene Pandala, who delivered an enthralling lecture titled Affordable Sustainable Buildingsat BalwantSheth School of Architecture, NMIMS, Mumbai. The GREAT Talk is a multi-city initiative aimed at motivating young Indian students to plan their careers effectively by interacting with eminent UK speakers. The platformoffers students a once in a lifetime opportunity to expand their horizons, meet with prominent speakers and explore new career directions. Commenting on the GREAT Talk initiative,Sharon Memis, Director West India, British Council, said, The UK has a global reputation for excellence in education and skills thanks to academic and research institutions that are among the worlds best. Theseinstitutions are engines of ideas, knowledge-creation and innovationand have beendriving impact globally. That’s why our alumni go on to succeed in almost any field you can think of whether Nobel-Prize winners, Oscar-winning directors or Olympic gold-medalists. The GREAT Talk series brings these inspirational people to meet young minds and create opportunities for new ideas and thinking. At the GREAT Talk in Mumbai today,Eugene Pandala, delivered an inspiring lecture on how by useof traditional sustainable building methods and techniques to control climate, it is possible to have a major impact to reduce energy use.He elaborated that due to global warming, the sea level is rising and disasters areincreasing. Moreover, there is a growing challenge to conserve drinking water of our planet and every one of us should be responsible and contribute efforts to mitigate global warming.In this fascinating talk, Pandala gave details on how the solutions to reduce global warming and energy conversation o