HBA is a 1,500-person design studio founded in 1965, headquartered in Singapore, operating 25 offices across four regions. The tech stack is purely CAD and visualization—AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, Enscape, 3ds Max, Rhino, Lumion—with recent adoption of generative AI (Midjourney, Stable Diffusion) for concept work. The hiring profile is design-dominated (59 of 67 open roles), skewed toward senior and director-level talent, signaling both project complexity and internal team expansion challenges. Active pain points around cost/quality trade-offs and labor budgeting suggest pressure to scale delivery across new geographies (EMEA expansion noted) without proportional headcount.
Tech Stack 21 technologies
What HBA/Hirsch Bedner Associates Is Building
◆Challenges
- Expanding residential team
- Balancing cost and quality
- Budget constraints
- Delivering within scope, budget, schedule
- Managing labor budget
- Maintaining client relations
- Expanding into emea region
- Value engineering process
- Compliance with specifications
- High-quality delivery
▲Active Projects
- New digital resource library
- High-profile hospitality projects
- Landmark residential and mixed-use development projects
- Design compliance and mep/structural requirements
- Global hospitality design projects
- Maldivian resort project
- Hospitality and high-end projects
- Wellness/spa and cruise hospitality packages
- Designing presentations, reports, pitch decks, and project portfolios for leadership
- Developing brand identities, logos, and brand guidelines across a range of brand portfolios
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Studio Director, Project Director, Design Director
