Elyse joined Orms in 2023 after 17 years at Grimshaw, where she led conservation teams on several listed 20th-century projects and served as the heritage lead on several major infrastructure projects in London.Her diverse sector experience spans masterplanning, commercial, leisure, transport and higher education, with notable expertise in adaptive reuse of heritage assets.

At Orms, she leads the Grade I listed Custom House hotel-led conversion and Grade II* Waterhouse Square mixed-use development, bringing specialist knowledge in building fabric analysis, documentary research and contextual design solutions. This approach, as well as her work for Historic England Heritage at Risk team, led to her being recognised in the Architect’s Journal 40 under 40 list in 2021.