"Arena Consultants were appointed as Lab architects and Project management consultants for our State of the art R&D center for IRRI South Asia (IRRI SARC)-Varanasi.

The area of the said project was approximately 40,000 sq.ft. and spread over on the ground and first floor. The ground floor includes the Centre of Excellence in Rice Value Addition (CERVA), a suite of modern laboratories, analytical labs, milling quality lab, cooking quality lab, sensory and tasting booths for grain taste, and state of the art library. The education and training arm of IRRI SARC, IRRI Education, includes spacious and technologically designed flexible training and lecture halls. GIS rooms, state of the art training center, workstations for researchers, meeting rooms, director room, conference rooms and collaborative spaces along with a vibrant lunch area are located on the first floor.

Our experience with the Arena team was very good and very professional. The team is accommodative and provided good solutions.They have in-depth knowledge and experience of laboratory planning, designing and project management. As a result, they could deliver the project in a very critical time frame of 2.5 months."

Dr. Gururaj Guddappa Kulkarni - Head-Research & Regulatory Compliance and Seed Health Unit

"Working with Arena consultants has been an incredible journey as they were always there to help us in bringing out the best of best in designing and execution. Archana with her long experience was a pillar in helping us with designing and execution.
The Novelty/ innovative factor in lab designing was always given a priority and most important was the kind and mutual understanding made this journey a memorable one. We wish them always best in all their future endeavors."

Dr. Vimla Prakash - Head R&D | International Panaacea India Pvt. Ltd.

"Recently Archana successfully completed R&D laboratory renovation work at Sudarshan chemicals. As noticed during the entire project duration, one of the important aspects of Archana's style is "Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)", meaning integration of the entire team, from owner to contractor to subcontractors, early in the design process. While maintaining all the laboratory requirements she gave equal importance to aesthetics. She is quite open and flexible to suggestions. Nevertheless she is bold, firm and courageous in putting her views across. She has many prestigious projects to her credit and I am sure she will have many more to follow.
I very much appreciate her project completion skills and wish her a very bright future in the years to come."

Pramod Dalvi - Head R&D | Sudarshan Chemical Industries Ltd.

"This is to confirm that M/s Arena Consultants was among the team of associates and helped us in creating the R&D facility at Chandivali Andheri location.
M/s Arena supported the principal Architect in preparation of the Laboratory layouts, design & execution of lab furniture and allied utility work.
We appreciate the close interactive approach and basic understanding towards the technical aspect of the R&D lab infrastructure work. With their support we could commission the R&D laboratories in a stipulated time frame.
The layout of the R&D centre is cautiously designed to satisfy all technical user requirements along with ease in operation while fulfilling all safety guidelines. Scientific user fraternity of our organization is please with the exquisite facility.
We wish them all success in future."

Piramal Enterprises Limited.

"We are pleased and happy to say that we were right in appointing 'Arena Consultants' as our ‘Laboratory Architects'. This facility is meant for 5 divisions of Huntsman group admeasuring an area of 60,000 sq.ft. The scale was one of its kinds in Mumbai with diverse and complicated requirements. Yet the manner in which the layouts were prepared, displayed the efficiency and design skills of a Laboratory planner. Their work reflected their capability, in-depth knowledge and work experience that Arena Consultants carry. They were flexible & proactive and came up with multiple solutions as and when required. Our visions for this project matched. The detailing and specifications laid out by them were clear and specific with no compromise approach. They showed an attitude and responsibility to go an extra length to get the things in right manner!"

Kurt Girod - Project Director | Huntsman International (India) Pvt.Ltd.

"I came in contact with Archana when she was working on the designing of Archroma Product Stewardship Laboratory on the 11th floor at MBC Park, Thane. She is knowledgeable and excellent in Conceptualization. She is quick to grasp the needs and translate them into effective layouts. She is fun to work with and speedy in her responses. She is a patient listener and very cooperative and understanding."

Dr. Dileep Wakankar - Head Product | Stewardship Asia Archroma India Pvt. Ltd.

"Archana has excellent knowledge about the subject and architecture wise she is good in lab design. She is well focused while working in her domain. Overall supportive and can adapt to the changes if well explained and found convincing. Overall it’s excellent to work with her."

Shahab Ahmad - Senior Manager | Jones Lang LaSalle

"The design, developments and execution of the interiors of our Research and Development Laboratory at Mundhwa, Pune was taken up by Architect Archana Sohoni. We found her work to be of very good quality. Typically, consultants focus on functional requirements of laboratory interiors, but Archana and her team balanced functional requirements very well with aesthetics. The result was that the project was well delivered and with required safety.
We found Archana and her team well organized and flexible in their approach. We wish them success in all their future endeavors."

Navendu Bhushan - Project Manager | Dow Chemicals Intl. Pvt. Ltd.

"Arena Consultants is focused, thorough and gives a comprehensive touch to the entire project, be it designing, detailing, costing or project management for that matter. Archana makes sure that the project flow is smooth and information sharing is streamlined. I think what differentiates Arena Consultants from other architectural firms, is that Archana and her team, ensure that, it is not just the final product that is important, but also the process through which you execute the project. I wish them success in future endeavors"

Ravindra Jagtap - Managing Director | Aastrid Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd.