Basic Approach
Founded in the construction industry and taking on the challenge of solving various social issues, we at Tokyu Construction have continued to provide “a reassuring and comfortable living environment,” our corporate philosophy, not only to our direct clients for buildings and infrastructure, but also to the people in surrounding areas and society as a whole.
Our company’s brand message of “building the future on new foundations” embodies our commitment to creating a new future by transforming construction to transcend the construction industry framework and continuing to address social issues. Based on this message, we will continue to build better relationships with local communities and society in order to create a new future that surpasses everybody’s expectations.
Community development and social citizenship activities
Interacting with Neighboring Communities
We organize community social events and site tours in cooperation with schools and other educational and governmental institutions in the neighboring areas around our work sites. Moreover, in partnership with local associations and other organizations, we actively interact with local residents in the vicinity through activities such as flower planting, cleanup activities and lighting installation works, in order to deepen people’s understanding of our construction work.
Donating Clothes to Africa
We called on all our employees to collect clothing together with our work clothes with the old design, which had a redesign to mark Tokyu Construction’s 30th founding anniversary, and sent them to the people in West Africa through Motherland Academy International. The non-governmental organization is made up of mothers who convey the equality and preciousness of life to children through action, and conducts aid activities in the region.
We have been providing clothing donated by our Group employees and subcontractors to hard-to-reach regions of Africa every year since 1991. Over the 34 years until 2024, we have delivered a total of over 200,000 clothing and other items to the Republic of Mali and other countries.
Sponsoring Relay for Life Japan
Relay for Life Japan is a community-based charity event that aims to support cancer patients and their families, raise awareness of cancer prevention and convey the preciousness of life to future generations.
Starting with their Saitama Relay in 2009, we have co-sponsored and participated in various community relays across the Tokyo metropolitan area. Our employees, their families and subcontractors help with 24-hour charity walks and fundraising activities. We also provide voluntary support for event operations, including preparation of drawings for the venue and setup/removal work on the day of the event.
Tree Planting Activities
Since 2009, the non-profit organization Silva has been regenerating Meguri-no-Mori in Shonan International Village, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture—a forest left abandoned following the cancellation of a golf course development project—by planting native tree species. We have been participating in this initiative since 2019, engaging in tree planting, forest maintenance, and other conservation activities.
In FY2024, a total of 306 people participated in the spring and autumn tree-planting festivals and forest maintenance activities, bringing the cumulative number of participants since 2019 to 1,147. In the same fiscal year, the site was also certified as a Nature Symbiosis Site.
This initiative is an important effort not only for mitigating global warming but also for maintaining and conserving biodiversity. We shall continue to promote participation in tree-planting volunteer programs and similar initiatives.
Production and Screening of the Movie “Signpost of Reconstruction”
We produced the documentary film “Signpost of Reconstruction” on the restoration work on the North Rias Line of the Sanriku Railway, which suffered tremendous damage during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The movie documents the struggles and shared hopes of the civil engineers engaged in the restoration work, as they continued to revitalize disaster-struck areas through the resumption of operations of the entire North Rias Line. A screening of the film was held in February 2019 to help revive the memories of the disaster and deepen understanding of the work of civil engineers among the general public. The movie is currently available on YouTube. Our efforts to raise interest in civil engineers who support our social infrastructures was highly acclaimed, and the movie won the Grand Prize at the 2018 Japan Society of Civil Engineers Film Competition.
Initiatives for Future Generations
Tokyu Kids Program
We have been organizing the Tokyu Kids Program annually since 2009 as a hands-on event where elementary school children and their parents participate together in work experience programs and facility tours. Through this program, we aim to deepen participants’ understanding of the Tokyu Group, which operates across a wide range of business fields closely connected to everyday life, and to foster a stronger sense of familiarity and connection with the Group.
Site Tours for High School Students
Our company organizes site tours for local technical high schools. Since this is the first time for many students to enter a construction site, they eagerly listen to talks given by our employees. We hope that the tours serve as an inspiration for many students to show an interest in the construction industry.
Summer Vacation! Park Wildlife Watching
The Environmental Technology Department of our Civil Engineering Division conducted biodiversity surveys at Tokyo Metropolitan Aoyama Park from 2010 to 2014 as part of baseline data collection for the development of ecosystem network evaluation technologies. At the request of the Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association (TMPA), we also co-organized the “Summer Vacation! Park Creature Observation Program” from 2012 to 2017, participating from the planning stage in this event, which brought together about 10 to 20 families—children and adults equipped with insect nets and cages.
Since 2018, we have been participating as instructors in the extracurricular Creature Observation Class organized by Seinan Elementary School in Minato City, which is jointly planned by TMPA and us. In this program, children not only chase butterflies and dragonflies but also learn about the park’s plants and insects while enjoying interactive activities such as the “Creature Quiz.”
Although the classes were conducted online in FY2020 and FY2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person outdoor sessions have resumed since 2022.
“Kensetsu Tankentai” Construction Site Expeditions
Every year during the summer school holidays, Tokyu Construction participates in an event organized by the Japan Federation of Construction Contractors, called “Kensetsu Tankentai” (meaning “construction site expedition”) to give elementary and junior high school students and their parents the chance to visit a construction site. The children are able to observe many things that they would normally never be able to see, as well as to interact with employees and skilled workers as they energetically engage in their work. Like this, the visitors can experience the appeal and fun of the construction industry. Each year since we first participated in this event in 2015, we select a construction site where children and their parents can get a taste of the unique fascination of the construction industry. In this way, we hope to inspire some children to become future leaders of the industry.