Lizette McNeill

Lizette is a Managing Partner of dynamic and impact-driven decarbonization firm IXO Partners. Headquartered in Hong Kong, IXO Partners is a technical consultancy co-founded in February 2023 by women civil engineers specialising in structural engineering (the ‘inside’) and façade design (the ‘outside’). Leveraging a combined 27 years of design-through-construction expertise, IXO Partners was established to improve the value of new and existing buildings and expand their investment potential in view of physical and financial risks arising from climate change.

Lizette is responsible for the ‘outside’ stream at IXO: façade design and consulting. Facades are complex systems; representing significant upfront embodied carbon and significant impact on operational carbon use during their lifetime. Lizette’s deep understanding of façade materials, envelope thermal performance, modular pre-fabricated systems, façade failures and remediation, construction contracts and supply chains, is derived from firsthand experience on local and international projects across APAC, Europe and the Middle East. In Hong Kong, she advocates for sustainable urban development as the Lead of the Real-Estate Resilience Working Group at the Australian Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong, and supports women in STEM as a past member of The Women’s Foundation (TWF) Advisory Council 2023-2024.