BIM Buyers Map

Firms that sell to them: BIM services and modelling, BIM and construction software and its resellers, BIM and CORENET X training, laser scanning and reality capture, digital construction platforms, certification and inspection.

BIM submission is not new in Singapore: since 2015, plans for new building projects of 5,000 m² and above have been submitted in BIM. CORENET X changes how the submission is made. It became mandatory for new projects of 30,000 m² and above on 1 October 2025, and for new projects of 5,000 m² and above on 1 October 2026, including major additions and alterations. Smaller projects may opt in.

Instead of separate submissions to each agency, the project coordinator, usually the lead architect, makes one coordinated submission at each gateway, from design to completion, with a federated model in IFC+SG, Singapore's openBIM format. Every discipline's model has to meet that format.

Converting models to IFC+SG and coordinating them across disciplines is new work for many firms. In 11,000+ firms in BIM-relevant work, Lodestone found no BIM footprint in their people or on their website. They are the most likely to buy that work in.

Source: URA circular DC26-08, Updates to CORENET X implementation plan, 23 July 2026

11,000+ firms with no BIM footprint in their people or on their website: contractors in BIM-relevant trades, architects and engineering consultants, and developers.

Before a firm is counted as a buyer, its people and its own website are checked for BIM capacity. Where BIM capacity is found, the firm is listed separately, with the evidence.

Every firm is scored from 1 to 10 and placed in Ready Now, Hot, Warm or Cold. The score is computed from dated evidence: government contracts, major building contracts, projects named in CORENET X records and current hiring, with recent evidence counting most. Each row says why now.

The rest of the market is in the same file, 20,000+ firms in all, each firm with its reason:

• firms that already run BIM, in house or through a provider, with the evidence: a separate list, useful to sellers of software and training, and to BIM services for overflow work or a change of provider
• borderline firms with a few modellers of their own, who may still buy part of the work
• construction-related firms outside BIM-relevant work
• construction firms without a current BCA licence
• the firms that sell BIM in Singapore

Registered name and UEN, licences and grades from the Building and Construction Authority (BCA), recent government contracts and projects, job ads in the last 90 days, BIM status, website and business pages, the firm's published phone and e-mail, a named person with job title and seniority level where one is public, and a link to the firm's entry in a public register.

One Excel file with a tab for each tier and group, and a short PDF presentation that explains every column.

Ask for an overview and a sample. The sample is typical rows from every tier, exactly as they stand in the file, with their sources.