Tokyu Construction Sustainability Policy
Leveraging the public trust in the Tokyu brand and our know-how and engineering in town planning, the Tokyu Construction Group fulfills each individual customer’s dreams through the creation of a reassuring and comfortable living environment. Through our businesses, we address various issues confronting our customers and society, which change day by day, and create value that we share with society and communities to enhance our corporate value in a sustainable manner.
Process to determine Materiality
In formulating our new vision announced in 2021 and our long-term management plan towards 2030, we identified our material issues (key management challenges) at a meeting of the Board of Directors by recognizing the surrounding environment, risks, and opportunities, and considering the importance to stakeholders and the impact on enhancing corporate value.
Promoting Sustainability and its Management System
In accordance with our corporate vision and management plan, we practice sustainability-oriented corporate management with a focus on decarbonization, zero waste and disaster risk reduction in order to solve social issues and create economic value. Through this effort we aim to provide new prosperity to all our stakeholders (customers, subcontractors, employees and their families, shareholders and society) and enhancing our corporate value in a sustainable manner. We identify issues relevant to our corporate sustainability as material issues, carry out initiatives to address these issues, and report our progress to the Board of Directors. In addition, in order to flexibly deal with environmental changes, we identify our medium- to long-term risks and opportunities and review them annually by setting up a system to exhaustively uncover risks from events and factors that may impact our business operations or hinder management.
In light of these risks, the situation across the company is monitored by the Council of Business Unit Managers, which checks and shares information on the state of corporate operations, as well as by top management, and the Board of Directors through quarterly business monitoring. For individual cases concerning construction orders, real estate transactions, venture investments and other business investments, we established cross-organizational Head Office Risk Management Council, Orders Received Council, Overseas Orders Council, Real Estate Transaction Review Board, Business Investment Review Board, and Venture Investment Committee, each of which examines risks in advance and monitors them.
The Sustainability Committee, which reports and discusses sustainability-related issues, held discussions during the current fiscal year on topics including climate change, raising GHG emission reduction targets, human rights due diligence, biodiversity, and information disclosure.
Respect for Human Rights
Our group has established the Tokyu Construction Group Human Rights Policy to promote carry out efforts initiatives that to respect the human rights of all people involved in our business activities.
Stakeholder Engagement
We believe that it is important to keep informed of the Company's issues and what stakeholder expectations are through communicating with all our stakeholders, and to disclose information about our business activities in a timely and appropriate manner.
Tokyu Construction was founded in order to find solutions to the problems of population density in Tokyo. Through the creation of a reassuring and comfortable living environment, we have worked to address social issues by giving our full attention to solving the various problems confronting our customers. Over the years, we have aimed to improve not only the value of a single building or infrastructure but also the value of the whole town area by deeply recognizing the richness of the many stakeholders involved.
Going forward, we will continue to build mutual trust and work to address social issues and improve our corporate value through open communication.
Stakeholder | Main Communication Channels | |
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Customers | Customer satisfaction survey | Conduct surveys on building and services of completed properties |
Communications through exhibits, various events, website and media | Provide the necessary information in a timely manner based on customer needs | |
Subcontractors | Co-creation and support | Hold information briefings, provide support for new hires and educational/training, conduct direct company visits and dialogues, provide the Construction Career Up System |
Accident Prevention Cooperative Association | Eliminate work-related accidents at construction sites, encourage mutual aid among members | |
Employees and their families | Employee engagement survey | Assess employee attitudes throughout the company, visualize the status and organizational issues at each department and implement improvements (Twice a year) |
Dialogue with all employees (vision dialogue) | Hold dialogue sessions that the management, executive officers and a few employees of around five people discuss the Company's future on an equal footing. Sessions cover all employees | |
Training and skill development support | Provide training opportunities that match each employee's career stage, support personal and career development | |
Health improvement activities | Promote health awareness and mental health care, implement flextime, teleworking and intervals between work shifts | |
Thorough compliance for maintaining a suitable workplace environment | Implement the whistleblowing system, conduct the compliance awareness survey, conduct educational programs | |
Company newsletter | Advance management policies, share information on corporate activities to ensure active internal communication | |
Family-oriented activities | Implement workplace visits and family recreational activities, enhance welfare programs for families | |
Shareholders and investors | General Meetings of Shareholders | Hold shareholders' meetings, issue shareholder reports |
Financial results briefings | Hold briefings twice a year | |
IR events and dialogues | Hold site tours and business briefings, respond to ESG rating agency surveys | |
Society and future generations | Neighborhood near construction sites | Hold resident briefing sessions before start of construction |
Community development and social citizenship activities | Hold local events and volunteer activities, donate clothing to Africa, participate in charity events to support cancer patients, plant trees | |
Initiatives for future generations | Hold the Tokyu Group's hands-on event for elementary school children and their parents to experience work, site tours for elementary and junior high school students to learn about the workings and attractions of the construction industry, site tours for technical high school students |
Multi-stakeholder Policy
Tokyu Construction has released its multi-stakeholder policy, given in the following link.
Green Finance
Through the “creation of a reassuring and comfortable living environment”, Tokyu Construction strives to resolve social and environmental issues and to serve as an organization that is loved by its customers and consumers for years to come.
We have recently formulated our Green Finance Framework as a means to raise funds to address these issues.
This Framework has been formulated in accordance with the four elements set forth in Green Bond Principles 2021 (*1), Green Loan Principles 2023 (*2), Green Bond Guidelines 2022 (*3), and Green Loan Guidelines 2022 (*3).
A second party opinion was obtained from DNV Business Assurance Japan Co., Ltd., a third-party evaluation organization, regarding compliance with the principles.
Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. was selected as the structuring agent (*4) for the formulation of the framework and acquisition of second party opinions.
Green Loan Overview
Composition Amount | 10billion yen |
Contract date | November 7, 2023 |
Execution date | November 10,2023 |
Borrowing period | 3 years |
Arranger and Agent | Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited |
1 Developed by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA)
2 Formulated by the Loan Market Association (LMA)
3 Formulated by the Ministry of the Environment
4 Parties who provided advice and support in the formulation of the framework, etc.