The government has decided to drastically ease restrictions on floor area ratio for hotels in Japan in a bid to address a shortage of accommodation. The new rules will allow hotels to expand their floor area ratios by up to 50 percent from the ...
India’s foreign minister said the government is providing food aid to thousands of Indian workers in Saudi Arabia who are not able to buy food after losing their jobs in the kingdom. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said in a series of tweets over the ...
Rescue workers on Thursday were racing to dig out a woman found alive under the rubble of a building in Kenya’s capital that collapsed six days earlier, a senior official said. “She cannot move but she is safe,” Pius Masai, an official leading the ...
Employees at the Saudi Binladin Group, a construction giant, have set fire to more than seven company buses in the latest protest by disgruntled staff over not being paid salaries for months and a large round of reported layoffs. Maj. Nayef al-Sharif, the spokesman ...
A growing number of municipalities have been forced to delay or abandon plans for new day care centers across Japan because of fierce opposition from local residents, despite long waiting lists for such facilities. According to a Kyodo News survey covering municipalities in nine ...
A stretch of brick sidewalk in Nagoya near a construction site caved in by about 5 meters on Monday evening but there were no injuries. The Aichi Prefectural Police closed traffic around the site and launched an investigation. According to the police, the site, ...
The infrastructure ministry plans to use drones, automatically controlled construction machinery and other information technology to improve productivity in civil engineering ordered by the government. Officials said Tuesday that the ministry will set up a panel of experts to begin discussions and reflect the ...
A piling industry group that was called upon to check for data falsification in the industry has failed to say whether such cases exist. Akira Kurose, head of the Concrete Pile Installation Technology Association, told reporters at a Thursday news conference the group is ...
The Shinagawa neighborhood of Musashi-Koyama — a vibrant maze of tiny alleyways that once housed dozens of small eateries, tapas restaurants and bars — is now a virtual ghost town. Just a few months ago, regulars would have struggled to squeeze into the myriad ...
Asahi Kasei Construction Materials Corp., beset by a faked construction-records scandal, says a worker who fabricated data for pilings beneath a tilting condominium in Yokohama manipulated figures for at least eight other facilities nationwide. The facilities include a business hotel in Aichi Prefecture, a ...
The faulty foundation work at a Yokohama condominum underlines the need for the government to improve the verification system for construction work.
A panel of government experts has called for a review of the government’s product certification system for construction materials following an investigation into Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. over its defective earthquake shock absorbers. The panel, from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and ...
