BIM BUZZ@Singapore 2011

Introduction
BCA and buildingSMART Singapore jointly organised the first international 48-hour BIM competition for both Professional and Student categories on 8 September 2011.
Participants were given information pertaining to the project on the day of the competition itself and given 48 hrs to come out with a BIM design that can demonstrate integration and collaboration across the construction value chain as much as possible. Participants were also given points for demonstration of sustainable design features.
The theme for both the Professional and Student categories is “BIM for Sustainable Design”.

Competition brief
Within the 48-hours competition, teams are required to provide the detailed BIM model and
documentation as much as possible. These included architectural and structural designs, building services designs and calculations, sun and wind analysis, energy analysis and consumption data, constructability analysis, model checking, among others.

Professional category
There are 16 teams in total.
12 teams are using REVIT and 4 teams are using ARCHICAD.
The winners are as following;

Best use of BIM for integration and collaboration>>>
Woh Hup (Private) Limited, Singapore


Best use of BIM for buildability, sustainability and constructability>>>
Aidea Team, the Philippines


Best use of BIM for multi-disciplinary use and interoperability>>>BIMER Team, WSP Group, Hong Kong



Student category
There are 21 teams in total.
20 teams are using REVIT and only Perfume1(Taiwan) team is using ARCHICAD.
The Top 3 for the Best use of BIM for sustainable design are as following;
1 - HVABIMLab, the Netherlands
2 - Team 1, Singapore
3 - Khuteambr, South Korea

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