Japanese construction company Shimizu Corporation has built a pillarless large space with a span of 18 meters, one of the largest in Japan using cross laminated timber panels, at Okayama University Ts…

Japanese construction company Obayashi Corporation has been awarded a contract by Australian real estate developer Dexus to construct the world's tallest hybrid wooden building with a height of 182 me…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan is taking the Digital Transformation Action Plan for Infrastructure formulated in March to the next stage. Focusing on "how to create",…

Tokio Marine Holdings and Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance have selected a group of companies to reconstruct the company’s former headquarters building in Marunouchi, Tokyo. The group consists of…

Oki Electric Industry has inaugurated a new H1 Building, the flagship factory of the company's digital transformation strategy at Honjo Plant in Saitama Prefecture. The two-story, steel structure buil…

Japanese engineering consulting firm Chodai conducted a test on July 6 of a flying car, an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture. The aircraft will be e…

Japanese construction company Shimizu Corporation will launch an industry-academia joint project for soil and groundwater remediation in Indonesia. The company signed a technical exchange agreement wi…

Japanese construction company Kumagai Gumi announced on June 28 that its wholly owned subsidiary, Taiwan Kumagai, has received an order to build a new large-scale complex with a total floor area of ov…

Overseas orders received by Japanese construction companies, which had declined due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, have made a V-shaped recovery. The Overseas Construction Association of Japa…

Tokyo-based developer Mitsubishi Estate is constructing the TOKYO TORCH mixed-use complex in front of Tokyo Station including a 390-meter-high skyscraper that will be the tallest building in Japan whe…