He has completed his graduation in Civil Engineering, and a post-graduation in Planning with a specialisation in Housing from School of Planning, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad.

Shekhar Nagargoje is a founder director of Planmax, a research and advisory firm which offers consultancy and advisory on project feasibility and real estate investment analysis.  He is Vice President- Research & Analytics on the board of Banyan resources, an asset development and management firm. He was a faculty with National Institute of Construction Management and Research in the School of Projects, Real Estate and Infrastructure Management, Pune. He has worked in land advisory team for K Raheja Corp, Mumbai where he was actively involved in financial feasibility, business development and market research activities for Inorbit Malls, a leading Shopping centre development company, covering over 25 cities across India and has analyzed over 200 land parcels pan India. He has also headed the research and advisory division of IL&FS property management services ltd., for the western region.  He was the CEO and was heading company operations for Nandan Buildcon for their project Nandan Prospera at Pune.

Shekhar Nagargoje has done extensive research on urban resilience, smart cities, techno economic feasibility studies and valuation. He has published research papers and case studies in many international journals and conferences. His research paper on best practices for Indian smart cities is part of Scopus indexed book chapter edited at National University of Singapore for IGI Publications.
 

Publications:

• Book Chapter :  Nagargoje, S. V., Sutaria, M. M., Somani, G. K. and Jha, N. (June, 2016). Smart City Solutions for India: Learning’s from Best Practices around the World. Chapter 9. Book Title: Smart Cities as a Solution for Reducing Urban. Goh Bee Hua (NUS, Singapore). IGI Global, Singapore. pp.252-273
• Nagargoje, S.V. and Dixit, A. (Sept., 2015). Urban Water Revolution through Sustainable Techniques: Study of Aurangabad City, India. 31st International PLEA Conference. Balogna. Italy.
• Nagargoje, S.V. Sarkar, S. and Borgaonkar A.. (April, 2015). Building Urban Resilience through Grey Water Intervention in the City of Jodhpur. Proceedings of National Conference on Sustainable and Smart Cities. Excel India Publisher, pp. 281-285.
•  Nagargoje, S.V. (2015).  Market Analysis and Feasibility of Shopping mall in the Micromarket of Whitefield, Bangalore. IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM) pp.73-77
• Nagargoje, S.V.(2016). Trade Area Analysis and Feasibility study of Hospitality development in the city of Satara, India. IOSR Journal of Business and Management. pp. 68-74.
• Nagargoje, S.V. (2014). “Integrated Approach for Future Sustainable Urbanization” in World Construction Symposium at Colombo, 2013, Srilanka.
• Shah M.N., Nagargoje S.V., et al (2017) Land Acquisition Risks in Real Estate Development Projects in Urban Areas. Accelerating Development: Harnessing the Power of Project Management, Project Management Research & Academic Conference 2017, IIT Delhi. India. Pp 389-400
• Book Chapter :  Shah M.N., Nagargoje S.V., Shah C. (2017) Assessment of Ahmedabad (India) and Shanghai (China) on Smart City Parameters Applying the Boyd Cohen Smart City Wheel. In: Wu Y., Zheng S., Luo J., Wang W., Mo Z., Shan L. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate. Springer, Singapore. pp.111-127
• Book Chapter: Shah M.N., Nagargoje S.V. (2015) Gap Analysis of Pune City’s Urban Infrastructure—Issues in Sustaining the Sprawl. In: Shen L., Ye K., Mao C. (eds) Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate. Springer, Berlin. pp 87-102

Shekhar Nagargoje is a gold medallist from CEPT University, Ahmedabad he was also conferred upon teaching excellence award at National Institute of Construction Management and Research for two consecutive years. He was invited by Confederation of Indian Industries as expert panellist on Smart cities forum, he also has been on various International panel discussions. He was awarded for his contribution in training students in development and analytics at Guangzhou University, China. Shekhar is also a reviewer of International Journal of Construction Management, Taylor and Francis group. His research paper and case studies has been conferred as Merit paper award and Best case award at International conferences.