Construction-related service prices are on the upward trend. Bank of Japan announced October 27 that Services Producer Price Index of construction services such as architectural and civil engineering …

JFE Engineering Co. announced that it was awarded a design-build contract jointly with a local contractor of two bridges on the total 1,500km dedicated freight railway line in India. The company, whic…

National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center will begin a competitive bidding process in January 2015 to procure a design-build contractor for the 114,700m2 new hospital to be relocated in Suita City, …

Order values received by Japanese major construction companies in April-September 2014 increased by 4.7% from the same period of a year earlier to 7.3 trillion yen, said Japan Federation of Constructi…

Three developments adjacent to each other in front of Tokyo Station are in pipeline. When completed, the total floor area of the planned buildings will reach 940,000m2. With the urban planning approva…

Tokyo Metropolitan Waterworks Bureau has been awarded a contract of water system management by Yangon City, Myanmar. The bureau, which has been involved in technical assistance to overseas municipalit…

The Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam will soon have a new terminal building for international passengers. The project, funded by Japanese official development assistance (ODA), has been…

The number of bankruptcy of construction companies in April through September 2014 caused by labor shortage increased to 51 from 46 in the same period of the year earlier, a Tokyo-based research insti…

Takenaka Corp. announced that it developed a new engineering method jointly with Tokyu Land Corp. to install a running track linking rooftops of multiple structures. The buildings as a whole support t…

Takenaka Corp. is taking advantages of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for designing exterior panels of a complex-shaped building to improve construction productivity.　Applied at a large-scaled sp…