Japan Federation of Construction Contractors filed an interim report on promotion of female construction craft workers’ participation in the industry. The federation will prepare a manual of creating …

The International Federation of Asian and Western Pacific Contractors’ Associations (IFAWPCA) will hold a next convention in November 2015 in Tokyo, in which Overseas Construction Association of Japan…

Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Corp. Ltd. announced February 18 that it has been awarded a 36 billion yen contract jointly with two local contractors to build the nation’s longest bridge and connecting …

Tokyo Metropolitan Government chose a group of a sushi restaurant chain Kiyomura and Daiwa House Industry Co. to develop a 65,000 m2 commercial facility in the planned area of New Toyosu Wholesale Mar…

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…