Although demand for new construction is shrinking in the bridge business market, demand for renewal to strengthen national land is growing significantly, which is expected to reach the same scale as new construction in a few years. In October 2013, we established the Renewal Promotion Office in the Civil Engineering Division and started full-scale efforts for large-scale renewal businesses. We have acquired a certain level of superiority in terms of track record and construction know-how. To further improve our competitiveness, we will actively form the most appropriate joint venture for each project within the Group and work to win orders for large, high-quality projects by strengthening cooperation and sales, construction, engineering, and design systems.
In recent years, we have also strengthened our support for tunnel lining reinforcement works, bridge stab replacement works, and tunnel invert reinforcement works by developing unique rapid construction technologies such as “Quick re-invert (Japanese only).” In this way, we are working on expanding the range of our renewal business. With the addition of SMCSE, which has strengths in the design and construction of steel bridges, we will handle even steel birder repair works and further expand the range of variations.

The SMCC Group had been developing, implementing, and managing technologies individually. However, with the two companies joining the Group, we have started to build a cooperative system for information sharing, on-site implementation, and research and development within the Group. These initiatives will improve the technical abilities of the entire Group.

We also plan to jointly conduct engineer training and human resource exchange to expand our bridge business domain by maximizing the group synergy.