ASDAV moves from asdav.in to asdav.com as it formalises international operations, taking live online certification in architecture and BIM, interior design and applied Vastu to learners across eight countries.
NOIDA, INDIA and DUBAI, UAE, August 6, 2026
The Asian School of Design & Applied Vastu (ASDAV) today announced the formal launch of its global operations and the appointment of Shantanu Pandey, Founder and CEO of the international design and growth agency Tenet, as Director.
The school has migrated its platform from asdav.in to asdav.com as it moves from India-first operations to serving a globally distributed intake.
Founded in 2024 by architect and global Vastu consultant Ar. Jasmine Ahluwalia, ASDAV delivers live online certification programmes in architecture and BIM, interior design and applied Vastu Shastra. Students prepare working drawings, work to real material and budget constraints and study site-based cases in small batches taught by practising professionals, finishing each programme with a portfolio rather than a certificate alone.
ASDAV has trained more than 500 students across over 25 cities, delivered more than 200 live learning sessions and holds a 4.9 out of 5 rating on Google. Its learners come from India, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Qatar, Canada and Mexico.
How International Learners Study With ASDAV
All programmes are delivered entirely online, with no relocation or campus attendance required. Sessions run live in Indian Standard Time, scheduled so that a designer in London, Dubai, Sharjah, Doha, Paris, Toronto, New York or Mexico City can attend and put questions to faculty during the session. Every session is recorded and issued within 24 hours for learners in other time zones.
Weekday cohorts serve full-time students and weekend cohorts serve working professionals, with identical curriculum across both.
Entry-level certifications assume no prior software experience, and the interior design and applied Vastu tracks accept complete beginners alongside practising professionals. Learners receive an ASDAV certificate on completion, which is a professional skills credential recognised by industry rather than a government-issued degree or diploma.
Shantanu Pandey is Appointed as Director at ASDAV
Pandey’s remit covers international market development, global brand and positioning, search and AI-era discoverability, programme portfolio and pricing strategy, and institutional and employer partnerships. Ar. Jasmine Ahluwalia continues as Founder with responsibility for academic direction, curriculum and faculty.
Pandey founded Tenet in 2018 as a sole operator with approximately USD 650 in savings and no external funding.
The agency now runs from Dubai with offices in India, the United Kingdom and the United States, employs more than 40 specialists alongside a network of over 250 partner practitioners, and has delivered more than 450 projects for over 300 clients across 15-plus countries.
Its work spans Nike, Microsoft, Gartner, Oracle UAE, G42, Mubadala and the Emirati Genome Programme, and is credited with generating an estimated USD 1.5 billion in revenue and investment for clients.
Tenet holds a 5.0 rating on Clutch and has been recognised by Awwwards and CSS Design Awards. Pandey’s commentary on design, brand and digital growth has appeared in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, HubSpot, Zapier and Starter Story.
“ASDAV has spent two years proving something difficult, which is that a live, project-based programme can take an architecture or interior design graduate and make them employable in weeks rather than years.
What convinced me was that the demand for it was already international before anyone marketed it that way. We have students in the UAE, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Qatar and Mexico who found us on their own. Launching global operations and moving to asdav.com formalises where our students already are.
My focus is making ASDAV the reference point in each of the three disciplines we teach, applied Vastu, interior design, and Revit and BIM, for a professional anywhere in the world deciding where to train.”
Said Shantanu Pandey, Director at ASDAV and Founder and CEO of Tenet.
ASDAV for Architects: Online Revit and BIM Certification
The architecture track serves architecture students, graduates and practising architects who need Building Information Modelling fluency to compete in contemporary practice. Most Revit training stops at software instruction. ASDAV teaches how BIM workflows operate inside working architecture and construction firms.
The flagship Professional Revit & BIM Course for Architects runs 12 weeks at INR 50,000 and comprises more than 40 live sessions, over 20 case studies and three or more capstone projects, moving from BIM and Revit fundamentals through architectural modelling, smart families, site workflows, documentation standards, visualisation and multidisciplinary BIM coordination.
Students graduate with a coordinated BIM portfolio, presentation sheets and full documentation sets. A 10-week Online Revit Certification Program at INR 38,000 serves those needing software depth without the full BIM module.
ASDAV for Interior Designers: Online Certification in Residential and Commercial Practice
The interior design track serves design and architecture students, practising designers, real estate professionals, career switchers and people returning to work after a break, including those with no prior experience.
It is built around the work that wins and delivers commissions: space planning that functions, material selection that holds to a budget, lighting and finishes, and presentation that clients understand and approve.
ASDAV for Vastu Consultants: Online Applied Vastu Certification
The applied Vastu track serves architects and interior designers adding a consulting service line, and learners entering Vastu practice directly. ASDAV teaches Vastu as a spatial discipline, grounded in orientation, circulation, natural light, ventilation and layout logic, applied to buildings as they are built and occupied today. Clients across India, the Gulf, the United Kingdom and North America increasingly ask for Vastu-compliant spaces.
Art of Applied Vastu: Basic to Advance, priced at INR 14,999, covers directional analysis, identification of Vastu defects and practical non-structural remediation applied to contemporary apartments, high-rise developments, and industrial and corporate premises.
Teaching runs on real residential and industrial case studies and includes consultancy workflow, reporting formats and client-handling training, so that graduates can price and deliver an engagement rather than only diagnose one.
Pricing Built So That Cost Is Not a Limiting Factor
Every ASDAV certification is taught live in small batches by practising professionals, ordinarily the most expensive way to teach design. ASDAV’s flagship certifications are priced from approximately USD 160 for applied Vastu to around USD 525 for the Revit and BIM and interior design programmes at prevailing exchange rates.
Independent comparisons of internationally marketed online interior design diplomas place typical fees between USD 1,000 and USD 3,000, and most programmes in that band are self-paced, with assignments reviewed asynchronously by a tutor.
The pricing reflects a deliberate position on access. Practical design training has long been concentrated in tier-one institutions and international programmes priced beyond the reach of the early-career designers and mid-career switchers who need it most, with the result that cost, rather than ability or intent, has decided who gets to upskill.
ASDAV is structured so that a designer in Lucknow, Lagos, Manchester or Sharjah can commit to a serious certification without the financial decision outweighing the professional one.
How ASDAV Trains Designers for Employment
ASDAV’s programmes are structured around what firms hire for. Students prepare working drawings, select real materials against real budgets, plan circulation and services, coordinate documentation and practise client communication.
A job support programme covers portfolio development, professional online presence, job search technique and interview preparation, alongside placement assistance and an alumni network.
ASDAV reports salary increases in the 200 to 250 percent range after programme completion, with gains of up to 350 percent among learners moving into specialist Revit and BIM roles.
Faculty Drawn From India’s Leading Design and Engineering Institutions
ASDAV’s instructors are practising architects, interior designers, BIM specialists and Vastu consultants who continue to run projects while they teach.
They are drawn from India’s foremost design and engineering institutions, including the Indian Institutes of Technology, the School of Planning and Architecture, CEPT University and the National Institute of Design, and from firms including Ramboll, PGSJ, Tata, INTEC and Design Accord.
Between them they bring experience of large-scale BIM delivery on international stadium, residential and infrastructure projects, and interior and hospitality practice across the UAE, Europe and Southeast Asia.
Founder Ar. Jasmine Ahluwalia is a licensed architect, interior designer and global Vastu consultant, and a graduate of Scuola Master F.lli Pesenti at Politecnico di Milano. She has published in Scopus-indexed journals on sustainable architecture, urban heat island reduction and circular economy practices in construction, with project experience in Canada, Mauritius and the United Kingdom.
“ASDAV was built to close the distance between what design education teaches and what the profession actually requires.
We have proved that in India. Shantanu has built a design business across four countries and understands both the craft and the commercial discipline behind it. His appointment means we can scale internationally without compromising what makes the model work, which is small batches, practising faculty and real project work.”
— Said Ar. Jasmine Ahluwalia, Founder of ASDAV
About ASDAV
The Asian School of Design & Applied Vastu (ASDAV) is a global design school offering live, project-based online training in architecture, interior design, BIM and applied Vastu.
Founded by Ar. Jasmine Ahluwalia, ASDAV delivers instructor-led certification programmes designed to move learners from understanding concepts to applying them in real projects, through working drawings, live-style briefs, site-based case studies and portfolio development.
Its faculty are practising architects, interior designers, BIM specialists and Vastu consultants drawn from IIT, SPA, CEPT and NID. ASDAV operates as a skill-based design school rather than a degree-granting institution, serving design students, working professionals and career changers internationally.
Learn more at https://www.asdav.com
About Tenet
Tenet, formerly KodeGlobe, is a global UI/UX design, development and growth marketing agency headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with offices in India, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Founded by Shantanu Pandey in 2019, Tenet works across research, design, build and growth for startups, enterprises and government-linked organisations in more than 15 countries.
Learn more at https://www.wearetenet.com
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