Japanese construction company Shimizu Corp. announced on February 18 that it will rebuild its Hokuriku branch in Kanazawa City, making it a new three-story 4,100m2 building with the highest level of e…

Japanese construction company KAJIMA CORPORATION announced on February 20 that it has introduced a quadruped walking robot "Spot" developed by US-based robot manufacturer Boston Dynamics at the civil …

Tokyo-based air mobility startup SkyDrive begun development of a heavy-duty cargo drone which can deliver goods and equipment to construction sites. The firm and construction company Obayashi jointly …

Decommissioning works are underway at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant as nearly nine years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake wrecked the area. The com…

Japanese civil engineering consulting firm Nippon Koei developed the data correction method to adjust climate change predictions for major cities in the world. The method can reduce bias by comparing …

Japanese real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan announced on January 28 the launch of the new hotel brand “sequence” which features cutting edge designs by a collaboration with designers and creators an…

Japanese construction contractor Takenaka Corp. announced that it has been appointed as a contractor of expansion of Terminal 2 of Changi International Airport in Singapore by the airport operator CAG…

The Great Hanshin Earthquake struck Kobe and neighboring areas in western Japan 25 years ago on January 17th, which overturned the “safety myth” of infrastructure and buildings and caused a significan…

Tokyo-based engineering consulting firm Nippon Koei announced that it won multiple contracts of transport infrastructure in Chennai, a southern city of India. The company will design the metro line an…

Japanese construction company Shimizu announced December 26 that it has completed the pilot project of purifying soil contaminated by the wartime defoliant Agent Orange at Bien Hoa Airport in suburban…