Student handbook

ABOUT BCA ACADEMY

Founded in 1984, BCA Academy has been providing quality training and education pathways to advance the capability of Singapore’s built industry.

BCA Academy, the education arm of Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority, provides skills, technical, supervisory, professional and management training for building and construction personnel.  BCA is an agency under the Ministry of National Development. BCA Academy (BCAA) offers a comprehensive range of programmes for the built environment, including Masters and Bachelor degrees with well-known international universities, executive development programmes, specialist diploma programmes, diploma programmes integrated work-study diploma programmes and skilled training for workers.

BCA Academy’s campus serves as an innovation hub to showcase new initiatives towards improving and advancing Singapore’s built environment. The Zero-Energy Building was added to the campus in 2009 as a live test-bed to green building technologies. The Construction Productivity Gallery, Centre for Lean and Virtual Construction and the BCA SkyLab were added in 2015-16 to enhance the learning experience of our students. In 2023, we welcome the completion of two new building blocks within the campus, showcasing advanced construction technologies such as Mass Engineered Timber (MET), Precast Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC) and Advanced Concrete Systems (ACPS); as well as green building strategies to meet super-low energy and zero-energy requirements. These facilities are dedicated towards our commitment in construction research, process development and innovation which contribute towards improving the safety, quality, sustainability, and friendliness of the built environment.