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Composite Materials And Modular Applications and Their Impact on Construction With Nintin Govila

Nitin Govila · March 1, 2023

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Interview with Nitin Govila

Composite Materials And Modular Applications and Their Impact on Construction With Nintin Govila — Nitin Govila

Podcast: Property Done Properly

March 1, 2023

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About Nitin Govila

Management Leader, Entrepreneur, Engineer and Meditation Trainer

15+ Years in strategic leadership7 APAC and MEA territories managedHEC Paris MBA merit scholarBoard Chair Heartfulness Singapore

Nitin Govila is a seasoned executive with over 15 years of experience in driving strategic vision, building sustainable companies, and expanding markets. As the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President for APAC+MEA, Nitin has created strong organizations and market presence in Asia-Pacific, MEA, and Oceania. He has a history of helping to grow and/or create profitable and sustainable companies and organizations from ground zero, even in the midst of economic downturn.

Nitin is an expert in architecture and design, construction industry, composite materials, manufacturing, materials, and building facade. He has successfully transitioned from one sector/company to another and delivered the expected impact and outcomes. Nitin is a people-centric leader who is always very alert and aware of the impact of company decisions on people. He has also always believed that as a professional, one needs to find ways to give back to society.

Nitin is a Meditation Trainer for the global non-profit Heartfulness, and is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors for Heartfulness Singapore. He has brought this heart-centered approach to train individuals and assist corporate teams in providing clarity and balance of mind. Nitin has mentored and guided leaders, country managers, territory managers, product management team members, and plant managers. He excels at expanding target and product categories across untapped markets.

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About this episode

In this episode, Ian talks withNitin Govila, Senior Vice President of Business Asia Pacific, Middle-East and Africa, and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for Serge Ferrari. Serge Ferrari is a world leader in materials for light architectural and exterior landscaping applications and has reached their 50th year in designing, developing and manufacturing material solutions for solar protection, tensile architecture, modular structures, and furniture and marine usage.

Nitin has a great deal of experience in International Construction Projects, Building Materials, Marketing, Home Automation, Roofing, Modular Structures, Product Development and international culture.

Ian and Nitin discuss Composite Materials and Modular Applications and their impact on construction, the longevity of materials, information management and culpability, workforce management, and understanding international culture.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Composite Materials can mean flexible materials, flexible membranes, tensile fabrics, or technical fabrics. These materials are produced for interior applications, awnings and shadings for airports, theatres etc, facades, furniture fabrics, marine protection and industrial applications.

More and more this external material is called the 5th element of construction. If you watched the World Cup you would have seen Serge Ferrari’s membrane structures in use.

After 50 years of operation, Serge Ferrari has amassed many examples of well-applied solutions to various practical problems to demonstrate to customers the longevity and efficiency of their Construction Projects.

Information management is vitally important for future changes and accountability in building projects.

Sustainability is often forefront, but the way employees are treated on international projects must also come from the top and corporate responsibility.

Efficient international projects and planning require the operatives to understand the culture of the clients and workers that are involved. This requires a certain amount of immersion in the country’s culture and environment.

BEST MOMENTS

‘We operate across multiple market segments. Obviously each market operates differently. So I have overall responsibility for the business in my zone.’ – Nitin

‘There’s a lot of people on sustainability and carbon footprint. So presumably these fabrics are a lot more sustainable and have got a lot less embedded carbon than say a concrete or a steel structure.’ – Ian

‘Our presence is across the world. We have done stadiums, airports or big structures in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Korea, China, South-East Asia and then coming to Africa, America, South-America and Europe also. Whether it’s extreme winters, whether it’s extreme heat, whether it’s a stormy climate, corrosive climate.’ – Nitin

‘Facades play a very key role. It’s part of the design of the building, it’s part of the construction, maybe it’s part of the cost.’ – Nitin

‘We should motivate organisations or leaders to look at the methods and practices that companies have been doing and they’re successful and they’re profitable and that can also bring a positive change for everyone.’ – Nitin

‘I see the UK in a totally different perspective now having travelled and lived elsewhere.’ – Ian

VALUABLE RESOURCES

https://www.ianjrogers.com/

ABOUT THE HOST

Ian Rogers is an entrepreneur running businesses in the Real Estate, Construction and Facilities Management arena. Ian has over 40 years’ industry experience, as he was effectively born into construction with his father having his own building company and Ian spending time working on sites from the age of 11!. As a result Ian has seen the industry from a trades person perspective, as a chartered quantity surveyor working on large commercial projects, as a project manager and then working on structured project finance through PFI/PPP deals. This has given Ian a unique whole life approach to any project by considering the end game at the beginning.

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