Lankan-born Australian award winner Dammica Wickramaratne speaks at Schneider Electric USA forum

ECO33 Sri Lanka and ECO33 Australia, both leading energy conservation award winning companies were invited to speak at a recently-concluded successful webinar arranged by global technology giant Schneider Electric, for global hotel brands and chains. 

ECO33 Chairman  Dammica Wickramaratne

Schnedier Electric Hotel Segment Global VP Shovan Sengupta

Schnedier Electric Global Strategic Accounts Manager Neha Jaitpal

ECO33 Chairman Dammica Wickramaratne was the guest speaker at this session. ECO33 is also a certified Schneider Ecoxpert. Schnedier Electric Hotel Segment Global VP Shovan Sengupta and Global Strategic Accounts Manager Neha Jaitpal were the distinguished panellists. 

They both shared their experiences and advice on how to optimise existing technologies already installed within hotels, and how businesses could incorporate new technology to ease post-COVID challenges faced on a day-to-day basis. They both noted that hotels which were operating in an energy efficient manner had a cutting-edge advantage in overcoming COVID-19 related challenges cost effectively and with the ability to budget for new technologies. Dammica explained how customers using the ECO33 solution powered by Schneider Electric were managing the health and comfort of guest and staff with a real-time integrated building management system covering energy efficiency, energy-optimisation, maintaining comfortable conditions including operating air conditioning (HVAC) system real time, to improve indoor air quality. 

Hotels can optimise existing technologies to avoid rushing into new technologies, as revenue is increasingly hard to come by, given the downturn of business. ECO33 also offers cost-effective and financially-guaranteed solutions to overcome “bad decisions on technology purchases that need to last over 15 years”.

ECO33 Sri Lanka has saved over 28 million kWh of energy from existing built environments over the last five years. Contributing towards climate change goals (MDG goals) of Sri Lanka, winning two Presidential Energy Awards and one global energy award in recognition of private sector contribution to reduce wasteful use of energy, and achieve national goals.

The prestigious customers of ECO33 include the Indian hotel chain giant Taj Samudra, Cinnamon Grand and Cinnamon Lakeside of John Keells PLC, Seylan Development Tower (Seylan Bank HQ), Shangri-La office and mall, Brandix Apparel, MAS Active, Bandaranaike International Airport and many more.

ECO33 is an energy-solutions and energy-performance guaranteed company, which gained the leadership position within the markets it is present in, in a short period of five years, since establishment in Sri Lanka and Australia; by Sri Lankan-born Australian energy award winner Dammica Wickramaratne, a leader in the energy retrofit sector. 

It remains one of the leading companies in Asia to deliver complex energy saving solutions with a commercial guarantee on ROI, with officers and joint-ventures in Singapore, Dubai and Malaysia. 

ECO33 is the representative of global technology brands such as Schneider BMS/GRMS from France, SMARDT magnetic bearing chiller from Australia, Sondex heat exchangers from India, TICA- HVAC products from China, Danfoss PIBCV valves from Sweden, and Pelco security cameras from the USA.