The Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) accident in Indonesia has reached its highest level in five years. The development of OSH cost includes the project budget to reduce accidents. Building Information Modeling (BIM) can detect potential causes of accidents prior to the construction starts so that the accident can be reduced. Many utilizations of BIM in OSH focus on planning and prevention rather than on OSH cost estimation. This study aims to conduct OSH cost component estimation using BIM for a building project in Indonesia. Two projects in the planning phase, tower building and warehouse building, are studied. The result indicates BIM utilization contributes to a to a more detailed safety equipment budget compared to the actual case. OSH cost reaches 2.01% from total budgeted project cost for tower building and 0.37% from total budgeted project cost for warehouse building. This shows the potential of estimating the OSH budget using the BIM model to achieve the ideal value of the OSH budget (2.01%–3.70%), particularly for mid-rise buildings.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11113/aej.v15.22259
Publish Year: 2025
