2. What is the enhancement?

To encourage wider adoption of BIM in the industry, the BIM fund has been enhanced. The enhancement allows applicant’s firm to double the number of applications from 3 to 6. While the application procedure remains largely the same, the applicant’s firm is required to use a slightly bigger sized project and achieve a 20% instead of a 10% productivity improvement for the 4th to 6th application. The $210,000 cap for project collaboration scheme has also been removed to encourage more project partners to use BIM collaboratively. A ONE TIME support for expenditure of manpower involved in setting up the firm’s BIM deployment plan is also added to the list of supportable items. Please see section 5 for details.

3. What are the application eligibility?

1. Applicant’s firm must be Singapore construction companies who are registered with BCA and Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Singapore (ACRA).
   

2. Applicant’s firm must be a member of an on-going or upcoming local construction project for the purposes of putting BIM technology into practice.

4. What is the objective?

The BIM fund is intended to help firm to incorporate BIM technology into their work processes at 2 levels:

• The Firm Level Scheme supports individual firms to build up capability in BIM modeling, visualization, value-added simulation and analysis and project documentation.
  
  

• The Project Collaboration Scheme supports firms to build up capability in BIM project collaboration in order to reduce design conflicts and costly reworks downstream.

5. What are the funding support and requirements?

Each firm can apply for any combination of Firm Level and Project Collaboration schemes up to a maximum of 6 times.

6. What are the completion criteria?

• Applicant is required to implement BIM technology in an on-going or upcoming local construction project;
  
  
• Applicant from a design discipline such as Architectural or Engineering shall make several BIM e-submissions via CORENET e-Submission system to at least a few key regulatory authorities (applicable to consultant firms ONLY);
  
  
• Applicant is required to obtain and attend the BIM e-submission template session by BCA (applicable to consultant firms ONLY);
  
  
• Applicant shall send at least 1 staff to attend *BIM Modelling/Management skill courses offered by BCA Academy or the respective BIM software vendor ;
  *BIM Modelling/Management skills course is to assess your knowledge of the tools, features, and common taskes of the respective BIM software.
  
  
• Applicant is required to submit a report which demonstrate:
  1. at least 10% productivity improvement, conflict reduction, and/or process reengineering as a result of using BIM (1st – 3rd application);
     
  2. at least 20% productivity improvement, conflict reduction, and/or process reengineering as a result of using BIM (4th – 6th application);
  
  
• Applicant who applies for expenditure of manpower is required to submit a deployment plan to build up BIM capability within the firm;
  
  
• Applicant is required to invite BCA officer(s) to attend at least 1 of the project coordination meetings (applicable for applicant who applies for Project Coordination scheme).
  

7. How to apply?

Applicant is to submit the BIM funding application and get BCA in-principle approval first before committing or signing any contract with the software vendor or service provider.

Please download and complete the application form and email them to lynn_chin@bca.gov.sg / angella_chan@bca.gov.sg

For further clarification, please contact Ms Lynn Chin / Ms Angela Chan at 6730 4507 / 6730 4540 or e-mail at lynn_chin@bca.gov.sg / angella_chan@bca.gov.sg

8. How to claim?

In principle, all funds will be disbursed on a reimbursement basis. The conclusive terms regarding disbursement will be set out in the letter of offer and its annexes.

9. Application form

BIM FUNDING APPLICATION FORM

10. What to submit?

For Firm Level scheme, please submit the following documents:

a. Application form;
b. Quotations (such as training, software, hardware) and
c. Training/Course outlines

For *Project Collaboration scheme, please submit the following documents together with the other firm(s)' application form and supporting documents (same as below).

a. Application form;
b. Quotations (such as training, software, hardware and hand-holding service);
c. Consultancy scope;
d. No. of consultants who will be assisting the project hand-holding; and
e. Details (CVs) of the BIM consultants who will be assisting the project hand-holding

*Project Collaboration scheme requires the involvement of a group of firms (min. 2 firms) of different disciplines from unrelated firm. (e.g. Architect discipline from firm A teaming up with Engineer discipline from firm B) to work on the same project using BIM technology