Zero Carbon Housing

About us

We help investors deliver their capital projects, maintain & operate their built assets, as well as meet their ESG and Climate targets.

We are a boutique advisory and construction engineering firm providing:

- Technical consulting & advisory services for Infrastructure and Real Estate.

- Engineered solutions for affordable and energy efficient housing, in line with carbon credits trading.

Being Energy efficient is the key to a resilient future.

A rogue commodity trader in New York or London can provoke a food crisis in Africa. An armed conflict in Eastern Europe can disrupt the energy supply chain on the whole planet. In this interconnected world, the butterfly effect has never been so real.

Don't to be a victim of it. Start thinking now.

Prasad Ekanayake

MEng, CEng, MICE, CAPM

Director | Advisory & Engineering

Prasad is a Chartered Civil Engineer whose 15+ years career spans across Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa in the private and public infrastructure sector. His track record includes underground railways, mining, places of public entertainment, high-end hospitality facilities, corporate & residential complexes. Prasad's expertise of the Built Environment is truly multidimensional as he worked as a consulting engineer, as a contractor and as a developer, from design to construction to operations.

Prasad has led efforts in civil engineering, internal audit and risk management on complex multibillion dollar infrastructure and private development projects in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area (GBA). The GBA is a cluster including 11 mega cities in Southern China totalling  72 million people and a combined GDP of US$ 1,650 billion, it would rank as the 12th biggest economy in the world.

Prasad is a Chartered Engineer from the Engineering Council in the UK, a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, an Energy Auditor, a Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, and a Certified Associate in Project Management from the Project Management Institute. He obtained his Masters Degree in Civil Engineering from the Iteem - Ecole Centrale de Lille in France.

Soraya Somarathne

RIBA ARB (UK Registered)

Architecture | Interiors

Soraya is a UK registered architect and Chartered member of the Royal Institute of British Architects with British, Sri Lankan and Malaysian heritage. After graduating from The Bartlett, UCL, she spent six years working for Foster+Partners. Early on, Soraya worked on the refurbishment of prestigious hotels and has developed an expertise in the transformation of industrial assets into travel destinations. Her portfolio also includes housing, offices, and public spaces.

In 2017, Soraya set up her architecture and interior design studio, Studio Soraya and works between London and Hong Kong. Soraya's work lies between biomimicry and bio-utilization where projects use Nature as part of their functionality. Soraya offers a pragmatic approach towards protecting and repairing the environment. This includes reducing the overall carbon footprint of a building in terms of embodied carbon as well as end use. Soraya's work has been described as environmentally responsive and having a different sensibility for sustainability considerations .

Soraya's work has been recognised by a number of organisations including the Royal Institute of British Architects Journal, The Korean Institute of Architects and Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University's International Program in Design and Architecture. Soraya continues to develop her practice in both the East and the West and teaches and guest-lectures at design institutes across Asia.

Wafaa Ermilate

Advisory Board | Infrastructure & Energy

Wafaa has 20+ year experience in investment banking and joined ING over 16 years ago. She is a Managing Director in New York and leads the division covering Energy for the Americas.

She structured and closed more than 50 transactions in EMEA – project finance, acquisition finance, hybrids, holdco finance - with a wide range of clients (industrial, financial, developers, large corporates).

Very active in the renewable energy sector, she was appointed as Global Lead for the Hydrogen taskforce, a team of professionals with a cross-disciplinary backgrounds who work cross-border to investigate ING role in the upcoming Hydrogen economy.

Wafaa started her career in M&A, in the London-based Investment Banking division of Citigroup before joining Madrid-based corporate finance advisory boutique Daiwa Corporate Advisory Partners.

She graduated as an Ingénieur de Gestion from the Solvay Business School, Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.

Tiffany Lau

Advisory Board | Real Estate

Tiffany Lau is the Executive Director, Head of Urban Ecosystems for JLL Asia Pacific, with a base in Hong Kong. She has 18 years of experience within the real estate industry, and was the Founder and Principal of A P A R T Companies, an advisory, project management and development firm, where she focused on repositioning and redeveloping commercial real estate.

She has worked on a number of high-profile projects such as developing and activating the 9 million sq ft Penn Plaza Portfolio in New York, and managing the design and construction of Plaza33, an award winning 13,000 sq ft open space.  She has also had previous development and asset management roles at Jamestown Properties, where she worked on the repositioning of Industry City into a 6 million sq ft modern industrial and innovation campus, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation under the Bloomberg Administration, where she oversaw public-private partnerships and creative asset management strategies. 

Tiffany holds and M.S. in Real Estate Development from Columbia University, New York, and a B.A. in Urban Design & Architecture from New York University. She has been on the Management Committee and Advisory Board for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) New York, board member for Alumni Association of Columbia University GSAPP, member of the ULI National Urban Revitalisation Product Council (US), served on several ULI Advisory Service Panels in London, South Africa, and Beijing.