Tokyu Corporation Social Environmental Report
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Toward a beautiful age -- The Tokyu Group 2004 Tokyu Corporation Social Environmental Report November 2004 TOKYU CORPORATION About this Report Contents Seamless Train Route Service between Highlight Tokyu Corporation has published the “Tokyu Highlights Toyoko Line and Minatomirai Line Provides Corporation Environmental Report” since Seamless Train Route Service between Toyoko Line and Minatomirai Line Starts ……3 Better Access to Yokohama’s City Center 2000, offering an annual description of our Foreword ………………………………………………………………4 involvement with environmental issues as part Corporate Social Responsibility at Tokyu Corporation ……5 of our business activities. Corporate Governance and Compliance…………………………6 The title of the report for 2004 has been renamed Environmental Policy ………………………………………………8 as Social Environmental Report. This reflects a Tokyu Corporation Eco Up Program ……………………………9 World’s First Construction of Urban Tunnel by NATM This is the first time that white LEDs have been used in station change of emphasis, and the information has Environmental Objectives, Targets and Results ……………10 (New Austrian Tunneling Method) signs. However, all new signs installed in future station A two kilometer stretch between Higashi-hakuraku Station renovation work will be LED signs to further reduce been edited and presented accordingly to show Environmental Impact Data………………………………………12 and Yokohama Station had to be tunneled to enable the start environmental impact. our involvement in society. Data Relating to Tokyu Corp.’s Environmental Impact ……13 of the seamless train route service between the Toyoko Line and Minatomirai Line in February 2004. Environmental Considerations Made for New Yokohama Railway Business ……………………………………………………14 NATM, a method normally used for mountain tunnels, was Station Initiatives to Prevent Global Warming ……………………………14 selected for this project due to its energy saving and Since the new Yokohama Station is quite large, consisting of グ environmental aspects. It differs from cut and cover five underground floors, air conditioning is limited to the ル Initiatives Toward a Recycling-oriented Society …………………15 construction, an above ground method that requires piles and platform level (fifth basement level) and the concourse area ー Initiatives to Improve the Environment Along Our Railway Lines …16 supports for retaining earth. Instead, NATM bores in a similar (third basement level) while access passages on the second プ fashion to an unlined tunnel into the ground, which minimizes basement level are only ventilated. To reduce power Real Estate Business ………………………………………………17 the influence on the surrounding environment and ensures the consumption, heat sources used for air conditioners are split economic viability of a project. The lining of the tunnel was in two time shifts. wrapped in a waterproof sheet to prevent water leaks and The escalators are programmed to operate at slow speed Other Businesses……………………………………………………19 extend the life of the tunnel. when they go unused for a certain amount of time. The motor The construction work carried out below the existing train is equipped with an inverter to reduce power at startup and Communication ……………………………………………………20 lines had to meet a safety standard unprecedented in save energy. Communication with Our Customers ……………………………20 international engineering history of less than 7 mm per 10 m High frequency inverters are used in 95% of station lighting to of tunnel deflection. conserve energy and turn small daily savings into impressive Communication with Governmental Agencies……………………20 The use of NATM for tunneling under an operating train line results. Communication with Our Employees 21 …………………………… was hailed as a new method for using underground space in Company Overview (As of March 31, 2004) urban areas and received the Outstanding Civil Engineering Eliminating Use of CFCs at Transformer and Distributing Company Name: Tokyu Corporation Group …………………………………………………………………22 Achievement Award in May 2003. Stations Headquarters: 5-6, Nampeidai-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Environmental Activities of the Tokyu Group ……………………22 Efforts are underway to eliminate use of CFCs as an insulating 150-8511, Japan LED Signs Introduced at Yokohama Station material in power generating equipment, to prevent even the Established: September 2, 1922 Signs at Yokohama Station are now illuminated by white slightest possibility of a leak of what is believed to be a Capitalization: ¥108,820 million LEDs. They produce a more even and brighter light than greenhouse gas causing global warming. Breakers at the Kami- Operating Revenue in Fiscal 2003: ¥240,208 million fluorescent signs, enabling the colorful statement of product tanmachi and Shimo-tanmachi transformer substations and Railway Business ¥135,307 million information and corporate messages. the Yokohama Power Distribution Station, newly built to Real Estate Business ¥102,014 million LEDs have lower environmental impact; compared to accommodate the reconstruction of the Toyoko Line Other Businesses ¥2,887 million fluorescent lighting they reduce energy consumption by 60%, underground, use dry air instead of CFCs. The environmentally Employees: 3,477 heat generation by 50% and CO2 emissions by 60%. Their 10- friendly design of the new facilities includes installation of Stock Listing: Tokyo Stock Exchange Section 1 year service life is also six times that of a fluorescent tube, rectifiers and transformers not dependent on CFCs, as well as Business Description: Railway, real estate, other businesses which contributes to a reduction in waste. the use of ecological cables. (leisure, services) Sales Revenue (Non-consolidated) (Unit: 1 million yen) All businesses 282,691 292,499 301,959 297,845 240,208 300,000 Hotel business ＊ About the Scope of this Environmental Report 43,857 50,367 50,623 42,396 Although this report covers mainly the activities of Tokyu 15,641 13,771 2,887 Other businesses 30,483 29,524 Corporation, it also provides information on the Tokyu Group in 200,000 separate group columns. 85,633 91,127 103,463 99,866 102,014 Real estate business Corporate social responsibility issues of the Tokyu Corporation are mainly described in the article titled Communication. 100,000 Tokyu Corporation’s environmental activities focus on the environmental impact of business activities in Japan. However, this 124,177 127,990 132,486 133,584 135,307 Railway business report also contains material concerning work to construct rail overpasses and underpasses contracted out by local authorities, 0 Fiscal 1999 Fiscal 2000 Fiscal 2001 Fiscal 2002 Fiscal 2003 and work commissioned by land readjustment associations, where this relates to environmental activities that fall within the scope of Wrapping the lining of the tunnel in a waterproof sheet Completed tunnel ＊ As of April 2003, our hotel business was transferred to a subsidiary company. the company’s decision-making processes. 2 3 2004 Tokyu Corporation Social Environmental Report 2004 Tokyu Corporation Social Environmental Report Foreword Corporate Social Responsibility at Tokyu Corporation Our company’s two main business fields are the railway improving the environmental advantages of our railways by The Tokyu Group’s history dates back to its establishment as construction. We employ a total of approximately 50,000 business, which is highly public in nature, and the urban- introducing seamless train route service, barrier-free the Meguro-Kamata Railway Company in September 1922. people and have total sales of about ¥2.5 trillion. * development business, which depends on a partnership with services, and enhancing the comfort of our trains. Expanding its transport network, the company also became local communities, and thus an important management task In urban development business area, the long lasting value is involved in the real estate business and department stores The Tokyu Group has set out a group philosophy based on for us has been to develop our businesses while gaining the the key to build a sustainable society, furthermore, our and other distribution operations, with the aim of developing the fundamental element ‘beauty’ as a guide to our business trust of society. It is our mission to maintain a safe and easy- design principle is to maximize the energy and resource the area around its railway lines. Later as the economy grew, activities. Our management policy “to fulfill our corporate to-use transportation system, build an affluent and agreeable efficiency of buildings and towns to enable users to live with Tokyu branched out into such areas as hotels, resorts, and social responsibility” is part of this philosophy. social environment and furthermore to implement aggressive less environmental impacts. culture and information related operations, becoming a As the core business of the Tokyu Group, we are committed environmental initiatives to develop a sustainable society that To develop our businesses while retaining the trust of corporate group involved in a wide variety of businesses. to implementing the group slogan “toward a beautiful age – guarantees a livable world for the next generation. society, all members of the Tokyu Group must share the the Tokyu Group” and to becoming a company that people same sense of values with regard to environmental initiatives As of the end of March 2004, the Tokyu Group consisted of love and trust even more than they do today. As a corporation that makes use of vast resources that are and relationships with society. As the core member of the 324