History of BIM in Singapore
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Singapore first advocated the use of object-based CAD tools in the late 1990s. But during the early years, the tools then were not that matured and take-up rate was not high. Recent years has seen the global use of BIM and was started to explore this in 2009 with pilot projects and opened up the CORENET e-submission system to accept architectural submissions for regulatory approval in Jan 2010 and this was followed by the acceptance of structural and MEP BIM e-submissions in April 2011.
It was also announced to the industry the mandatory requirements of BIM for regulatory building plan approval starting from 2013. To drive up the adoption rate of BIM, a Centre for Construction IT has been set up to handhold the industry through the BIM journey and put in place an incentive scheme to subsidize the costs in procuring hardware/software and training/consultancy services to enable a firm to be a BIM ready.
What have been the benefits?
BIM has been identified by Singapore as one of the key technology drivers to raise construction productivity significantly. In addition, it has been demonstrated through the use of BIM, there will be significant manpower savings in terms of producing production drawings as well as cost savings gains through less abortive work downstream as a result of better coordinated design and construction activities upstream.
