Group Growth Strategy

Enhancing the functions of urban areas and increasing their value

One of the urgent issues the world faces is changes in the global environment brought on by the effects of rapid climate change. This is causing intensification of natural disasters, biodiversity crises, and energy issues, the convergence of which is forcing humankind to find solutions.
As part of our efforts toward a sustainable society, we are promoting initiatives that connect people with nature under our Environmental Concept, "We will enhance human sensitivity and creativity, make the best use of nature, and aspire to realize carbon-neutral cities by developing life-cycle CO₂-zero buildings."
Our goal is to enhance urban functions, not only in tangible areas like natural disaster preparation and infrastructure improvement, but also in terms of envisioning how we would like our future society to be.
Going forward, we will continue to increase urban value by applying our group's business areas over entire urban life cycles.

Priority initiatives

Sustainable architecture and urban creation

We are contributing to the transformation to a sustainable society through collaboration with diverse stakeholders and initiatives to address urban issues. These efforts are centered on our Urban Creation Strategy Division, which is playing a central role in our goal of becoming an "integrated engineering firm for urban creation." We are also actively working on a variety of initiatives, which include promoting wooden structures and buildings through utilization of domestic timber, expanding ZEBs (net-zero energy buildings) that contribute to carbon neutrality, and promoting wellness architecture that incorporates the surrounding environment to stimulate the senses of users and local residents as well as encourage interaction.

Harmonization with the environment

In 2023, we formulated the Takenaka Group Environmental Strategy 2050 with a view toward a sustainable society of the future. Refining activities centered on our past environmental architecture, our goal for 2050 is to contribute to the environment by standardizing "whole life carbon 'minus' buildings," "Circular Design-Build," and "biodiversity improvement projects."
In the course of our business, we will continue to share and resolve urban issues through dialog with stakeholders in order to contribute to the realization of a society where people can live healthy, comfortable, and prosperous lives, a decarbonized society, a resource circulation society, and a society in harmony with nature. Endorsing the recommendations of the Task Force on Climaterelated Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and acquiring certification in the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), we are working to analyze and understand the risks and opportunities that climate change poses to our group’s business and to disclose information about our responses.
In September 2023, the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Information (TNFD) released the framework for its final recommendations, and the Takenaka Group has also launched initiatives in this area. The growing need for information disclosure has expanded beyond global environmental initiatives to encompass the full range of ESG, including the publication of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). In order to quickly respond to requests for information disclosure while making steady progress with our environmental strategy, we are actively engaged in developing an implementation system, including establishing a Sustainability Department.

Work style and productivity reform

In April 2024, the Revised Labor Standards Act, which will limit overtime work in the construction industry, will come into effect, so we have been engaged in a variety of activities, such as formulating a business plan based on these regulations, ensuring appropriate project schedules, and establishing and deploying personnel systems that enable flexible work styles. At the same time, in order to further improve work-life balance and realize "an attractive construction industry that will last into the future," we are of course utilizing building information modeling (BIM), and we are promoting radical productivity reforms through a shift to data-driven business processes (D3B:Data Driven Design-Build) and digital transformation of our entire business. Along with continuing to provide support for securing skilled construction workers, whose number continues to decline, moreover, we are also working to improve working environments through more advanced construction machines and robotics.

Steady production processes

In addition to providing our customers with highquality architectural works while ensuring safety and security, which includes the design-build process, it is our responsibility to proceed with construction work as a member of the local community. Based on our Quality Assurance System for Individual Construction Projects, which was revised in 2009, we are working closely with customers and partner companies to build in quality from the upstream stages of projects, and we are also visiting customers at the time of completion and after two years to receive feedback in order to improve business processes. Then we are proceeding with initiatives, such as health and safety management, to prevent both public and workplace accidents at our work sites, and CSR procurement to realize sustainable supply chains.

Respect for human rights

We have built a system for human rights due diligence.
In addition to specifically identifying five risk issues, the departments assigned to each issue continue to make improvements through periodic review of activities to prevent or mitigate related risks. We are also working to realize workplace environments that ensure psychological safety, and are free from discrimination and harassment by conducting regular internal surveys and various education and awareness raising programs.

Our Vision

We are aiming to create solutions that fuse construction technology and services so that we can demonstrate comprehensive engineering capabilities groupwide in line with urban life cycles. Values required for social issues, which, change with the times in various ways, are not uniform. Therefore, in order to be able to demonstrate a wide range of expertise, and technical and management capabilities groupwide, we will invest in strengthening management resources, and expansion of human resources, technology, and ICT. In doing so, our goal is to be the best partner for society and our customers.

Unchanging basic principles

According to the toryo (master builder) spirit, "a person in the profession of architecture must be an architectural craftsman and not a building merchant who is merely pursuing profits,” and according to our works principle, "architecture is a social asset that passes the culture of its time on to future generations."
Then Total Quality Management seeks to improve the quality of management by raising the level of quality for architectural works, services and operations.
Even as we aim to create new value and become the best partner for society and our customers, these three basic principles, which have been upheld throughout more than 400 years of our business, will remain unchanged. We will continue our diligent efforts to firmly keep the "spirit of the craftsman" alive in each and every one of our jobs.

Toward 2030 and 2050 targets

Viewing our business domain as "urban areas," our initiatives as an "integrated engineering firm for urban creation" are aimed at realizing a sustainable society.
We therefore established a Growth Strategy designed to make us the best partner for society and customers.
Looking beyond this strategy, which is approaching its final year in 2025, we have established 2030 Milestones.
These milestones represent business targets based on the direction of our initiatives for strengthening systems to respond to stock needs that are expected to increase, and expanding our business in the areas of global construction, development, and services. Meanwhile, we will maintain a foundation of sustainable and stable management centered around our core domestic construction business. Even as we are in the final steps of our current Growth Strategy, we are working to strengthen our business foundation, including work-life balance, human capital, technology, and digitalization, which will lead us to 2030 and beyond.
Recognizing the importance of decarbonization, resource circulation, and coexistance with nature being promoted in an integrated manner, moreover, the Takenaka Group Environmental Strategy 2050 was formulated in order to accelerate these initiatives groupwide and achieve them by 2050.
Although our current business environment has been severely affected by increases in prices and labor costs due to a decrease in the number of skilled construction workers, we are continuing to work on advancements in the construction industry as well as expanding and deepening our solutions capabilities, which are necessary for our group’s involvement in urban creation.
In this way, we will meet the expectations that society and customers have for the construction industry.