It’s a pleasure to share that The Millennity, the Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHK) development at 98 How Ming Street that our team supported to WELL Platinum, has been recognised at the Quality Building Award 2026. The project received a Certificate of Merit in the Hong Kong Non-Residential (New Building, Non-Government, Institution or Community) category. For a WELL Platinum office in Hong Kong, it’s a fitting piece of recognition, and we’re glad to have played a part in it.
The Quality Building Award is held every two years and is often called the “Oscar of Hong Kong’s construction industry.” It rewards teamwork across the full life of a building, from design through construction and into operation. The 2026 edition ran under the theme “Smartly We Build, Sustainably We Thrive, Inclusively We Lead,” and the ceremony was held on 26 June 2026.
The Millennity, Hong Kong · WELL v2 daylight and biophilia
A landmark in East Kowloon
The Millennity is a mixed-use commercial development in the East Kowloon CBD, in the core business district of Kwun Tong. It pairs two Grade-A office towers, together spanning roughly 640,000 square feet, with a 500,000-square-foot retail podium.
It’s a substantial addition to one of Kowloon’s busiest commercial areas, and the kind of building where the quality of the indoor environment matters to thousands of people every working day.
The development holds both WELL Core Platinum and LEED v4 BD+C: Core and Shell Platinum certification.
Both are base-building standards, verified at the highest level, which means the health and quality of the shared spaces are built into the development rather than left to individual tenants.
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What WELL Platinum asked of the building
BEE served as the WELL consultant on the project, which achieved WELL Core Platinum certification on 22 November 2023 under WELL v2.
WELL Core applies to the base building, the shared and landlord-controlled spaces that shape the experience for every tenant who moves in.
Getting to Platinum meant evidence across all ten WELL concepts, not design intent alone.
On air, the building runs 30% more fresh air than the ASHRAE baseline, uses demand-controlled ventilation to hold CO2 below 900 ppm, and filters through a MERV14 and UV system that targets PM2.5, VOCs, and bacteria. Air is tested for more than 30 pollutants.
On water, both contact and drinking water are laboratory-tested. On light, the daylight plan holds visible light transmittance above 40% through the glazing. Thermal comfort was verified to a Predicted Mean Vote within plus or minus 0.5 and a Predicted Percentage Dissatisfied at or below 10%.
Acoustics, materials, movement, nourishment, mind, and community rounded out the scope, down to restorative planting, bicycle storage, and the hand-drawn stairwell murals that make people actually use the stairs.
”“WELL Core is a demanding standard because it asks you to prove performance, not just describe it. Seeing The Millennity recognised at the Quality Building Award is a nice confirmation that a healthy base building and a quality building are the same conversation.”
Andy Ling LengAssistant Project Director, BEE Hong Kong
The Millennity · WELL Core Platinum · East Kowloon, Hong Kong
Still performing, three years on
WELL is not a plaque you hang once. Certified projects are built to keep performing, and The Millennity is now going through WELL recertification to maintain the standard it reached in 2023.
That’s the part that tends to matter most to tenants and owners: a building that was verified as healthy on day one, and is being checked again to confirm it still is.
About the Quality Building Award
The Quality Building Award (QBA) is a biennial award, first held in 2002, that recognises buildings of outstanding quality and the teamwork behind them.
It is jointly organised by ten leading professional institutions representing Hong Kong’s architecture, engineering, surveying, construction, and facilities-management sectors.
Awards span residential, non-residential, and renovation categories, with the aim of promoting the highest standards of professionalism across the building industry.
About the International WELL Building Institute
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) administers the WELL Building Standard, the leading framework for designing and operating buildings around human health and well-being.
WELL v2 measures performance across ten concepts, including air, water, light, and thermal comfort, and is verified through third-party performance testing. WELL Core applies the standard to a building’s base and shared spaces.
Congratulations to Sun Hung Kai Properties and to every team that brought The Millennity to life.
We’re grateful to have supported the WELL side of this one, and glad to see a healthy building take its place among Hong Kong’s best.
One project at a time.
About BEE Incorporations — Founded in 2009 by Alessandro Bisagni, BEE Incorporations is a global green building consultancy headquartered in Hong Kong and Shanghai. The firm operates 15 offices across four continents, specialising in green building certifications (LEED, WELL, RESET, BEAM Plus), ESG advisory, performance testing, and the BEE Sense IAQ and energy monitoring platform.
