Mr. Sudhakaran Nair has been a leading name in Indian plumbing industry for nearly four decades. A Civil Engineer by qualification, he started his career as a Project Engineer with a renowned plumbing contractor. Mr. Nair heads ESSENCO, a South India based building services company headquartered in Bangalore. During his successful career in the Middle-East and India, he has nearly 500 successfully completed projects to his credit. Mr. Nair is one of the founder members and the current President of IPA and Deputy Chairman of the World Plumbing Council. Mr. Nair has been instrumental in forging an alliance between IPA and IAPMO (International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, U.S.A.) for drafting and publishing the Uniform Plumbing Code-India. Through IPA-IAPMO partnership, he is now spearheading the launch of PEEP (Plumbing Education to Employment Programme) across India. Mr. Nair is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering, U.K. and a Full Member of the American Society of Plumbing Engineers. In 2006, he was awarded the prestigious “Lifetime Achievement Award” by IPA.