Promoted: Ahin Handa

In an ever-evolving profession, our advancing staff enriches the work and culture at PAYETTE while cultivating the talent, creativity and growth among the very project teams they make up. With great pleasure we announce the advancement of 8 staff members. We’ll feature one staff member each day over the next couple of weeks. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating their achievements.

Ahin Handa
Promoted to Associate

Since joining PAYETTE in 2004, Ahin has worked on some of the firm’s most technically challenging projects including complex renovations at MEEI and MGH and the recently opened Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating Suite (AMIGO) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Due to the immense success of AMIGO, PAYETTE was selected for an even more complex project at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Ahin’s discipline and fervent passion for leading and implementing projects of extreme demands resonates well with the consultants, vendors and clients. He received his Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Science in Building Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1998.

What inspires you?
The challenge of overcoming the fear of failure. Be honest to yourself and those around you!

What is the best part of your job?
Working directly with some of the best minds in the business to design and build some of the most complex healthcare projects attempted. The feeling of accomplishment once it is complete and operational.

What is the most important thing you’ve learned so far?
Be proud, enthusiastic and dedicated to what you do.

The sky is the limit: if you could design or redesign anything, what would it be?
Healthcare in fast developing nations like India.

5 of 8 in a series about advancing staff members.