Awards
  • Sabu Francis graduated with first class first from IIT Kharagpur in 1984. He broke a ten year record that year. He was also first in thesis and viva-voce. Indian Institute of Technology is a premier institute in India.  There are seven such institutes, and of them the one at Kharagpur has been rated as the best technical institute for the years 2000, 2001, 2002 by surveys conducted by a leading journal in India (India Today).
  • In 1991, Sabu Francis was awarded the JIIA (Journal of Indian Institute of Architects) special award for excellence in architecture research. This was for a taxonomy that was developed by him for representing architecture using computers. He is probably the youngest recepient of that award. (He was 28 years old at that time)

Recognitions
The real awards that we have got are those from the real world out there. Here are some of them:
  • We finished the Konkan Railway Corporation headquarters interiors in a record 45 days. That was 15,000 sq.ft. of interior space, from design to completion of works at site. It was executed strictly as per a low budget of Rs 300/- per sq.ft.

    This is what Mr. S.D. Limaye, the erstwhile chief engineer of Konkan Railway Corporation, had to say about the project (on record):

    "Your design for the headquarters of KRCL was an inspiration behind all our works"

    The interior can be glimpsed in the BBC serial, Tomorrow's world when they interviewed the dynamic CMD of Konkan Railway Corporation, Mr. E. Sreedharan who, we believe, was the actual force behind the entire project (BBC Tomorrow's World : Friday 2nd February 1996 : Tomorrow's World Bombay Special)

  • The software developed by Mr. Sabu Francis, TAD (The Architect's Desktop) is one of the few that tackles the unique representation problems faced in architecture. Equivalent efforts underway in other parts of the world (University of California, Berkeley, Switzerland, Sydney, etc.) are all institutional efforts. TAD is the only one that is the work of one individual.

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