Overview

Kavan has more than 13 years of construction industry experience. He joined HITT Contracting shortly after graduating in 2015, working his way through the entry-level ranks as a HITT Futures team member in project management, working with the firm’s base building, preconstruction, and corporate office interiors sectors. In 2018, he moved from HITT’s headquarters in the Washington, DC area to the West Coast to help grow HITT’s presence in Southern California.

Today, as vice president and office leader of HITT’s Los Angeles office, Ranasinghe oversees the successful delivery of a variety of work types throughout the Southern California region, including corporate offices, law firms, industrial facilities, and data centers. He also has robust experience with life science facility construction and renovation projects, such as laboratory build-outs, research and development (R&D) spaces, clean manufacturing facilities, cGMP spaces, speculative lab suites, and office-to-lab repositioning conversions. His expertise includes leading clients and design teams through complex due diligence efforts, helping provide hands-on constructability, estimating and feasibility feedback at the infancy stages of a project. In addition, he provides leadership to his project teams and plays a key role in building long-standing relationships with clients and subcontractors, ensuring client satisfaction and project success.

Affiliations & Certifications

• OSHA 30-Hour
• First Aid / CPR
• Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC)
• Biocom California
• International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), Greater Los Angeles Chapter
• Los Angeles Headquarters Association (LAHQ)
• NAIOP Southern California Chapter

Education

B.S., Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech