Maija Virta

Founder, Director
Santrupti engineers Pvt Ltd
Maija Virta is the Founder and Director of Santrupti engineers Private Limited. She has 25 years of experience in construction and HVAC-industry. Her chief areas of expertise are sustainable building policies and technologies. During her career she has been involved in developing many technologies for sustainable buildings as well as user-centric IEQ measurement, verification and post-occupancy evaluation processes. She has over 5 years of experience of onsite work to improve IAQ both in Europe and in India. Maija is a Fellow of REHVA, member of ISHRAE and ASHRAE. She was a vice-president of REHVA 2008-2011 and the president of Finnish HVAC-association SuLVI 2009-2013. She was participating national task force to develop an action plan for Finland to meet the national energy and carbon emission reduction targets in built environment 2010. Since 2015 she has been a member of ISHRAE's National Indoor Environmental Quality task force, who is preparing the IEQ standard for India. She is also the founding member of The Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) Indian chapter that was founded in 2016. MaijaVirta has been lecturing in many events around the world and has published over 30 technical papers in international conferences.