A consortium led by Shimizu Corp. completed excavation of Pahang Selangor Raw Water Tunnel in Malaysia, the longest tunnel in Southeast Asia. Some 200 officials of Malaysia and Japan attended the cere…

A super high rise condominium under construction in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo will be equipped with disaster resisting monitoring system, which enables to protect residents’ daily life at the time of natural…

Shinryo Corp. announced that it was awarded a contract of District Heating and Cooling (DHC) plant first phase development at Abu Dhabi International Airport in UAE. The plant capacity is expected to …

Japanese leading construction contractors have been receiving orders steadily outside the country, according to their accounting reports for April-December 2013. Obayashi Corp. reported more than 300 …

Takenaka Corp. won an award of Outstanding Concrete Structure by The International Federation for Structural Concrete, the fib, for its state-of-the-art works for a high rise apartment building in Kaw…

Tokyo Metropolitan Government awarded three contracts of building new wholesale markets in Bay Area to three consortiums led by Shimizu Corp, Taisei Corp. and Kajima Corp. The current market located i…

National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center announced that it awarded a 95 million yen contract of designing a new hospital to be moved and built at a new site in Suita City, Osaka. The new center wit…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will establish an industry-academia-government body in March to promote infrastructure export in the disaster prevention field. The Japan Disast…

The International Organization for Standardization, ISO published in January new standards for asset management including public social infrastructure such as roads, sewer, rails and energy plants. Ce…

One of the largest home electrical appliance retailers in Japan, Yodobashi Camera Co. Ltd. will extend its logistics center, “Yodobashi Assembly Center Kawasaki” in Kawasaki City. A five story structu…