At the QS Summit 2025 in Manila, Hearn & Hearn Consulting joined ASEAN professionals to explore “Unlocking the ASEAN Gem: Creating a Better Future Amidst Challenges in the Built Environment,” emphasizing the need for technological, ethical, and collaborative evolution in construction. Key discussions addressed corruption in infrastructure spending and the role of quantity surveyors in promoting transparency, with the Philippine Domestic Construction Board’s anti-corruption st

Achieving WELL Core Gold Certification for LIMA Tower One marked a major milestone in advancing healthier, more sustainable workplaces in the Philippines, revealing both the opportunities and challenges of pursuing WELL locally—from adapting humidity controls to a tropical climate, managing VOCs from furniture, and navigating the lack of local WELL Performance Verification agents, to the critical importance of integrating WELL requirements from the earliest design stages—ulti