Japanese Government launched a new scheme of yen loan for developing and emerging countries implementing Public-Private-Partnership (P3) infrastructure developments with an aim to remove obstacles for…

Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced an estimated construction cost of 11 facilities planned for the 2020 Olympic Games at 255.3 billion yen, some 100 billion yen more than the initial estimation o…

Mayor Fumio Ueda of Sapporo City of Hokkaido Prefecture announced his intention to bid for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games on November 27 at the city assembly meeting. With the successful bid, it will b…

Changi Airport Group (CAG) of Singapore awarded a contract to build a 130,000m2 mixed purpose facility and expand the Terminal 1 to a consortium of Japan’s Obayashi Corp. and a local contractor. The c…

East Japan Railway Company, or JR East is looking to renovate two Bullet Train lines; Tohoku and Joetsu Shinkansen that have been in service for more than 30 years. The company revealed its intention …

Construction cost increase derived from labor and material price hike hinders redevelopment projects nationwide, an industry association study found. Changes of contracts are inevitable in some under-…

Japanese construction companies are accelerating development of the net zero energy buildings or ZEBs that enable the annual energy consumption and generation balancing equal. Methods to save, generat…

According to the April-September 2014 corporate fiscal report, 19 of 26 top construction firms in Japan increased revenue and 17 reported more profit than in the earlier period. As for the order value…

Toda Corp. has secured a design-build contract of a new 85,550m2 hospital in Tranomon, Tokyo through a competitive bidding. The contract values at 40.65 billion yen. The 19 story new Toranomon Hospita…

Penta-Ocean Construction announced that it won a contract of a ground work at Changi Airport in Singapore by Ministry of Transport. The 95.3 billion yen contract, awarded to a joint venture of the com…