Hong Kong-based warehouse developer ESR announced on July 8 that the 390,000 m2 multi-tenant logistics center completed in Amagasaki city, Hyogo Prefecture, which makes the largest single building war…

Japanese construction company Kajima is promoting measures against both infection of COVID-19 and heat stroke at its construction sites. Workers are required to measure temperature and to sterilize th…

Three companies including TEPCO Energy Partner announced that they completed a factory with full artificial lighting in Fujieda City, Shizuoka Prefecture and started operation on July 1st. Leafy veget…

Nishimatsu Construction and Organization for Marine Science and Technology of Nagasaki University have developed an airship-shaped tunnel inspection robot. They tested the robot in the 2.6 km water tu…

Japanese construction companies Kajima and Takenaka, together with two construction machinery rental companies AKTIO, and Kanamoto have developed the remote operation system for tower cranes. The syst…

Japanese construction company Obayashi, Shizuoka University and Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation started an experiment on the carbon nano tube (CNT) in space for the space elevator project. Test…

Five Japanese organizations in the business of port and marine construction established a council to study conditions for accepting foreign workers. The first meeting was held on June 9th, and Mr. Hir…

Yokohama City announced on June 5th that it selected a group of companies led by Malaysian conglomerate Berjaya Corporation to develop a 2.2 ha land in Minato Mirai 21. The group called "BMD62" propos…

Japanese Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism Kazuyoshi Akaba visited Toranomon Hills Station, which is to be opened on June 6th on Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line. He also visited the Tor…

Japanese contractor Kajima and heavy equipment maker Komatsu announced that they jointly developed the world’s first hybrid tunneling machine taking advantages of the Tunnel Boring Machine method and …