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Special feature T-Base® project

Strengthening of
business in Japan

From “construction management” to
“production management”

The construction industry faces a variety of challenges, including the aging of the working-age population and the shrinking manufacturing workforce, the application of overtime work limits that will be implemented in FY2024, and addressing environmental issues.
To resolve these challenges, we are promoting the “T-Base® Project,” an initiative aimed at transforming processes in our core business of on-site construction.

Challenges surrounding
the construction industry and our initiatives

“Reform of the construction process” is our initiative to change the way construction is carried out, with a shift from single-item production on sites that are unique to the construction industry (in other words, site-by-site “construction management”) to platformbased “production management.”
Through this initiative, we will contribute to solving problems in the industry through manpower and labor reduction and decreasing the environmental impact of the construction process.
In May 2022, we opened T-Base®, a facility that serves as the core of our planning, production, and logistics. Centered on this facility, we have been developing and manufacturing standardized products and new unit construction methods, as well as developing a central production system linking our partner companies, suppliers, and worksites, and have begun full-scale operations throughout Japan.

Features and effects of
T-Base®

T-Base® is a platform for transforming the construction process.
Until now, blueprints have been created and onsite one-product construction has been conducted for each construction site (onsite). Going forward, we will utilize T-Base® to standardize common parts and repetitive work regardless of the site, and produce and supply them from off-site. This will reduce onsite labor, equalize on-site processes, and improve construction quality.
It will also contribute to the promotion of diversity by providing employment opportunities at off-site locations for people who have not previously worked in the construction industry.

Off-site environmental contributions

Initiatives to contribute to the environment centered on
T-Base®

We are promoting three major environmental initiatives with T-Base®.

WORK1

Reduction of waste materials brought on-site through decreasing packaging of materials in cooperation with manufacturers and distributors, adopting returnable packaging, and eliminating packaging of products produced at T-Base®

WORK2

Reduction of CO2 emissions in the production stage by adopting renewable energy

WORK3

Reduction of transportation burden through logistics & modal shifts by combining cargo and vessels in transportation to sites

Through multiple initiatives, we are working to contribute to the environment in the production and supply cycle of the construction industry.

Five functions and environmental contributions of T-Base®

Future development

In the future, we will further improve productivity by increasing the number of standardized technologies and units handled by T-Base® and by establishing flexible locations to meet construction demand in each region. The establishment of a cross-regional production system will also help ensure a stable volume of work for members of Kowakai, which consists of our partner companies. Until now, the high level of busyness in each region has been handled through personnel transfers. However, by realizing a work style in which standardized units are produced at off-site locations in each region and transported to construction sites, we will contribute to equalizing the level of busyness in each region and achieving work-life balance for workers.
In addition, we aim to achieve a drastic transformation of the construction process by linking DX with building information modeling (BIM), such as creating 3D blueprints, to further improve productivity.

Exhibition Showroom
Unit production line