Applicants for admission of civil engineering department of six universities in Tokyo area have been increasing in number since the Great East Japan Earthquake. One of them received this year 40% more…

The government decided on November 29 the Long-life Infrastructure Master Plan to prepare for large-scaled natural disasters such as the Inland Earthquake of Tokyo Metropolitan area, and the Nankai Tr…

Zenitaka Corp. has won a contract of building a bridge across the Nile River in Uganda jointly with Hyundai Construction of South Korea at the cost of 12.6 billion yen. Funded by Japanese yen loan, Ug…

Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. (JAPEX) will build an LNG terminal and a connecting pipeline for vaporized gas at Soma Port, Fukushima Prefecture, the board meeting decided on November 27. Follo…

A joint subcommittee was held on November 25 by Central Construction Council and Social Infrastructure Council, advisory bodies for Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, discussing …

Azusa Sekkei Co. Ltd. has been awarded a contract of designing of a general hospital in Kien Giang Province, the South of Vietnam. It was selected among two other Japanese design firms through interna…

Japan Sports Council (JSC), which is in charge of building the New National Stadium in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, decides the basic plan, shrinking its size from total floor space of 290,000 m2 to 220,000 m2…

Nikken Sekkei Ltd. and GRAPHISOFT, a Hungary-based global CAD software vendor agreed on strategic partnership to jointly develop Building Information Modeling (BIM) software. They will establish a col…

Diversity of human resources is being explored by the construction industry. Several groups of construction contractors and consultants have started discussion on creating favorable working conditions…

The new United States Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy on November 25 visited the earthquake affected area in Tohoku region including Ishinomaki City, Minami-Sanriku Town, and Sendai City, Miyagi …