June 2026 | SuSu 2026: “Embedding Sustainability into Project Delivery Practical Lessons from a Real-world Housing Project” with Venkata Subodh V & Manisha Lath Gupta
This session explores the delivery of a sustainability-led housing project through a project management lens, using the Aanandaa Permaculture Project as a real-world case study. Rather than focusing on the completed building, the session examines the project lifecycle, highlighting how sustainability ambitions were translated into practical delivery decisions.
The talk focuses on project challenges, trade-offs, and decision- making under constraint, including balancing sustainability goals with budget, programme, skills availability, and coordination across multiple teams. It examines how design choices, material selection, and construction sequencing evolved during delivery, and how changes were managed as the project progressed.
A key focus of the session is transferability. The project is used to demonstrate how a permaculture mindset can be applied incrementally and pragmatically across projects of different scales and contexts, without the need to replicate the original project in full. Learning is framed in alignment with recognised project frameworks, including the Triple Bottom Line and P5 (People, Planet, Profit, Process, Product), ensuring relevance to a broad range of project environments.
The session concludes with a facilitated discussion and Q&A enabling attendees to reflect on how these lessons can be applied within their own organisations and projects.
About the Speakers
Venkata Subodh brings 8+ years of cross-functional experience supporting transformation, sustainability and research-led initiatives across project environments and stakeholder ecosystems. His work focuses on structured delivery, stakeholder engagement, operational coordination and governance-led approaches within evolving business and transformation contexts. At New Cambridge Project Management, he contributes to business development initiatives while leading selected programmes focused on AI, analytics, PMO capability and applied transformation environments. His work increasingly explores how governance and emerging technologies can support more structured and informed decision-making. Alongside industry practice, Subodh actively contributes to the professional project management community through leadership and engagement roles with the APM London Regional Network, Green Project Management (GPM), and PMI speaking engagements, supporting discussions around sustainability, innovation and modern delivery practices.
Manisha Lath Gupta is a sustainability champion, a permaculture practitioner and teacher. She is the founder of Aanandaa Permaculture Project – a place of learning & inspiration from the natural world. Under this project, she has transformed 12 acres of degenerated land into a lush green permaculture food forest through rainwater harvesting, topsoil regeneration, and extensive tree plantation. She has also built a sustainable house using natural materials like earth, stone and lime. Manisha is an experienced marketing professional with 25 years’ experience across FMCG, Banking, and Consumer Tech industries. She has worked with brands like Unilever, Colgate Palmolive, Axis Bank, and Uber. She is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and holds a master’s degree in biotechnology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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