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Global Expert Mission Japan Transforming Construction 2019
Connecting for Positive Change _ ktn-uk.org/Global Global Expert Mission Japan Transforming Construction 2019 Contact Dr Nee-Joo Teh Head of International and Development [email protected] JAPAN TRANSFORMING CONSTRUCTION 2019 Contents Welcome 4 1 Introduction 5 1.1 Transforming Construction Programme 5 1.2 Scope of Enquiry 5 1.3 Disclaimer 5 2 Overview of Japan and its Business Environment 6 2.1 Understanding the Underlying Market Context 6 2.2 General Business Environment 6 2.3 Trading History 7 2.4 Doing Business in Japan 7 2.5 Attitude to Innovation 7 2.6 How Japanese Companies Innovate 8 2.7 Funding and Investment Agencies 9 3 Overview of Japan’s Construction Sector 13 3.1 Labour Shortages 13 3.2 Productivity Strategy 13 3.3 Industry Priorities: I-Construction 13 3.4 The Japanese Housing Market 15 3.5 Procurement 15 3.6 Players 16 3.7 Disruption 16 4 Evidence of Innovation 17 4.1 Obayashi Corporation 17 4.2 Komatsu 18 4.3 Sekisui House 20 4.4 Daiwa House Industries 21 4.5 Other visits 21 5 Market Synergies 23 5.1 National Priorities are Aligned 23 5.2 Critical Contextual Factors 23 Appendix 1 – List of UK Participants 24 Appendix 2 – List of Abbreviations 25 Japan Transforming Construction 2019 | 3 INNOVATE UK GLOBAL EXPERT MISSION Welcome Innovate UK1 global missions programme is one of its most important tools to support the UK’s Industrial Strategy’s ambition for the UK to be the international partner of choice for science and innovation. -
Engines of Creation : the Coming Era of Nanotechnology K
Engines of Creation : The Coming Era of Nanotechnology K. Eric. Drexler, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1986 (downloaded from : http://www.foresight.org/EOC/EOC_Chapter_1.html) Chapter 1 : ENGINES OF CONSTRUCTION COAL AND DIAMONDS, sand and computer chips, cancer and healthy tissue: throughout history, variations in the arrangement of atoms have distinguished the cheap from the cherished, the diseased from the healthy. Arranged one way, atoms make up soil, air, and water; arranged another, they make up ripe strawberries. Arranged one way, they make up homes and fresh air; arranged another, they make up ash and smoke. Our ability to arrange atoms lies at the foundation of technology. We have come far in our atom arranging, from chipping flint for arrowheads to machining aluminum for spaceships. We take pride in our technology, with our lifesaving drugs and desktop computers. Yet our spacecraft are still crude, our computers are still stupid, and the molecules in our tissues still slide into disorder, first destroying health, then life itself. For all our advances in arranging atoms, we still use primitive methods. With our present technology, we are still forced to handle atoms in unruly herds. But the laws of nature leave plenty of room for progress, and the pressures of world competition are even now pushing us forward. For better or for worse, the greatest technological breakthrough in history is still to come. Two Styles Of Technology Our modern technology builds on an ancient tradition. Thirty thousand years ago, chipping flint was the high technology of the day. Our ancestors grasped stones containing trillions of trillions of atoms and removed chips containing billions of trillions of atoms to make their axheads; they made fine work with skills difficult to imitate today. -
Enhancement of Industry Initiative Through the Zero-Energy Mass Custom Home Mission to Japan Experience Towards Commercialisation
106 Int. J. Mass Customisation, Vol. 4, Nos. 1/2, 2011 Enhancement of industry initiative through the Zero-energy Mass Custom Home Mission to Japan experience towards commercialisation Masa Noguchi MEARU, Mackintosh School of Architecture, The Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6RQ, UK E-mail: [email protected] Abstract: In response to growing global warming issues and increasing energy prices, house-builders today are becoming keener on the delivery of zero energy sustainable homes than ever. Nevertheless, their business operation still tends to develop into routine in view of their close system mode of operation. In 2006, to stimulate the industry, knowledge transfer study visits to Japanese net zero energy cost mass custom housing manufacturers were initiated. The educational event was later called ‘Zero-energy Mass Custom Home Mission to Japan’ and was resumed in 2007, 2008 and 2010. Consequently, three industry participants were transformed successfully from conventional housing suppliers to early adopters of net zero energy/carbon-emission homebuilders in their local contexts. This study demonstrates the gravity of the mission’s execution that was aimed at putting the theory of organisational buying behaviour into practice in order to develop a way to change the nature of the homebuilding industry towards the delivery of zero energy mass custom homes of the future. Keywords: ZEMCH network; Zero-energy Mass Custom Homes; zero carbon emission homes; prefabrication; mass custom design; industry education; sustainable housing development; awareness enhancement; commercialisation; Japan. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Noguchi, M. (2011) ‘Enhancement of industry initiative through the Zero-energy Mass Custom Home Mission to Japan experience towards commercialisation’, Int. -
FTSE Japan ESG Low Carbon Select
2 FTSE Russell Publications 19 August 2021 FTSE Japan ESG Low Carbon Select Indicative Index Weight Data as at Closing on 30 June 2021 Constituent Index weight (%) Country Constituent Index weight (%) Country Constituent Index weight (%) Country ABC-Mart 0.01 JAPAN Ebara 0.17 JAPAN JFE Holdings 0.04 JAPAN Acom 0.02 JAPAN Eisai 1.03 JAPAN JGC Corp 0.02 JAPAN Activia Properties 0.01 JAPAN Eneos Holdings 0.05 JAPAN JSR Corp 0.11 JAPAN Advance Residence Investment 0.01 JAPAN Ezaki Glico 0.01 JAPAN JTEKT 0.07 JAPAN Advantest Corp 0.53 JAPAN Fancl Corp 0.03 JAPAN Justsystems 0.01 JAPAN Aeon 0.61 JAPAN Fanuc 0.87 JAPAN Kagome 0.02 JAPAN AEON Financial Service 0.01 JAPAN Fast Retailing 3.13 JAPAN Kajima Corp 0.1 JAPAN Aeon Mall 0.01 JAPAN FP Corporation 0.04 JAPAN Kakaku.com Inc. 0.05 JAPAN AGC 0.06 JAPAN Fuji Electric 0.18 JAPAN Kaken Pharmaceutical 0.01 JAPAN Aica Kogyo 0.07 JAPAN Fuji Oil Holdings 0.01 JAPAN Kamigumi 0.01 JAPAN Ain Pharmaciez <0.005 JAPAN FUJIFILM Holdings 1.05 JAPAN Kaneka Corp 0.01 JAPAN Air Water 0.01 JAPAN Fujitsu 2.04 JAPAN Kansai Paint 0.05 JAPAN Aisin Seiki Co 0.31 JAPAN Fujitsu General 0.01 JAPAN Kao 1.38 JAPAN Ajinomoto Co 0.27 JAPAN Fukuoka Financial Group 0.01 JAPAN KDDI Corp 2.22 JAPAN Alfresa Holdings 0.01 JAPAN Fukuyama Transporting 0.01 JAPAN Keihan Holdings 0.02 JAPAN Alps Alpine 0.04 JAPAN Furukawa Electric 0.03 JAPAN Keikyu Corporation 0.02 JAPAN Amada 0.01 JAPAN Fuyo General Lease 0.08 JAPAN Keio Corp 0.04 JAPAN Amano Corp 0.01 JAPAN GLP J-REIT 0.02 JAPAN Keisei Electric Railway 0.03 JAPAN ANA Holdings 0.02 JAPAN GMO Internet 0.01 JAPAN Kenedix Office Investment Corporation 0.01 JAPAN Anritsu 0.15 JAPAN GMO Payment Gateway 0.01 JAPAN KEWPIE Corporation 0.03 JAPAN Aozora Bank 0.02 JAPAN Goldwin 0.01 JAPAN Keyence Corp 0.42 JAPAN As One 0.01 JAPAN GS Yuasa Corp 0.03 JAPAN Kikkoman 0.25 JAPAN Asahi Group Holdings 0.5 JAPAN GungHo Online Entertainment 0.01 JAPAN Kinden <0.005 JAPAN Asahi Intecc 0.01 JAPAN Gunma Bank 0.01 JAPAN Kintetsu 0.03 JAPAN Asahi Kasei Corporation 0.26 JAPAN H.U. -
Amfep Fact Sheet on Protein Engineered Enzymes
Amfep/09/1 7 Brussels , 07 .0 5.2009 Amfep Fact Sheet on Protein Engineered Enzymes Protein engineering is a technique to change the amino acid sequence of proteins in order to improve their specific properties. This paper addresses the background of this technique, why it is used in the case of industrial enzymes, as well as regulatory and safety aspects. Natural evolution, biodiversity and traditional methods of improving industrial enzyme proteins All proteins, including enzymes, are based on the same 20 different amino acid building blocks arranged in different sequences. Enzyme proteins typically comprise sequences of several hundred amino acids folded in a unique three-dimensional structure. Only the sequence of these 20 building blocks determines the three-dimensional structure, which in turn determines all properties such as catalytic activity, specificity and stability. Nature has been performing ‘protein engineering’ for billions of years since the very start of evolution. Natural spontaneous mutations in the DNA coding for a given protein result in changes of the protein structure and hence its properties. This natural variation is part of the adaptive evolutionary process continuously taking place in all living organisms, allowing them to survive in continously changing environments. Natural variants of enzyme proteins are adapted to perform efficiently in different environments and conditions. This explains why in nature enzymes belonging to the same enzyme family but isolated from different organisms and environments often show a variation in amino acid sequence of more than 50%. The properties of enzymes used for industrial purposes sometimes also require some adaptations in order to function more effectively in applications for which they were not designed by nature. -
Factset-Top Ten-0521.Xlsm
Pax International Sustainable Economy Fund USD 7/31/2021 Port. Ending Market Value Portfolio Weight ASML Holding NV 34,391,879.94 4.3 Roche Holding Ltd 28,162,840.25 3.5 Novo Nordisk A/S Class B 17,719,993.74 2.2 SAP SE 17,154,858.23 2.1 AstraZeneca PLC 15,759,939.73 2.0 Unilever PLC 13,234,315.16 1.7 Commonwealth Bank of Australia 13,046,820.57 1.6 L'Oreal SA 10,415,009.32 1.3 Schneider Electric SE 10,269,506.68 1.3 GlaxoSmithKline plc 9,942,271.59 1.2 Allianz SE 9,890,811.85 1.2 Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. 9,477,680.83 1.2 Lonza Group AG 9,369,993.95 1.2 RELX PLC 9,269,729.12 1.2 BNP Paribas SA Class A 8,824,299.39 1.1 Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. 8,557,780.88 1.1 Air Liquide SA 8,445,618.28 1.1 KDDI Corporation 7,560,223.63 0.9 Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. 7,424,282.72 0.9 HOYA CORPORATION 7,295,471.27 0.9 ABB Ltd. 7,293,350.84 0.9 BASF SE 7,257,816.71 0.9 Tokyo Electron Ltd. 7,049,583.59 0.9 Munich Reinsurance Company 7,019,776.96 0.9 ASSA ABLOY AB Class B 6,982,707.69 0.9 Vestas Wind Systems A/S 6,965,518.08 0.9 Merck KGaA 6,868,081.50 0.9 Iberdrola SA 6,581,084.07 0.8 Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin SCA 6,555,056.14 0.8 Straumann Holding AG 6,480,282.66 0.8 Atlas Copco AB Class B 6,194,910.19 0.8 Deutsche Boerse AG 6,186,305.10 0.8 UPM-Kymmene Oyj 5,956,283.07 0.7 Deutsche Post AG 5,851,177.11 0.7 Enel SpA 5,808,234.13 0.7 AXA SA 5,790,969.55 0.7 Nintendo Co., Ltd. -
Financial Results Briefing
th 13Ended April, 2021 Financial Results Briefing June 17, 2021 Contents Inauguration Greetings from New President & Representative Director of Asset management company Summary 030 ESG initiatives (1) External Certifications and International Initiatives 001 Executive Summary 031 ESG initiatives (2) Environment 002 Impact from COVID-19 032 ESG initiatives (3) Social and Governance 003 Acquisition & Disposition in FP 13 Appendix 004 SHR’s Portfolio 034 Balance Sheet 005 Financial Result (FP 13) 035 Statement of Income and Retained Earnings 007 Financial Forecast (FP 14 / FP 15) 036 Trends of Major Management Indexes 009 Profit and Loss Comparison 037 Acquisition of properties (FP 13) 010 DPU and NAV per Unit 038 Occupancy Rate by Asset Type 011 Trends of Appraisal Value 039 Residential Portfolio Status (Occupancy rate by area) Portfolio Status 040 Residential: Rent Trends by Area 013 Office Portfolio 041 Identifying Materiality and KPIs (excerpt) 017 Residential Portfolio 042 Response to Natural Disasters 022 Hotels Portfolio 043 Portfolio Development Policy 044 Portfolio Map Financial Base 045 Portfolio List 024 Financial Base 047 List of Interest-Bearing Liabilities Growth Strategy 050 Period-end Appraisal Values 027 Policy on the Reversal of Internal Reserves 053 Unitholders Composition 028 Growth Strategy 054 Overview of Asset Management Company 029 Urban Redevelopment Business by Sekisui House 055 About the Terminology used in this Presentation • This English language notice is a translation of the Japanese language Investor Presentation dated June 17, 2021 and was prepared solely for the convenience of, and reference by, overseas investors. Neither SHR nor Sekisui House Asset Management, Ltd. (SHAM) makes any warranties as to its accuracy or completeness. -
Notice of the 70Th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders
(Securities Code: 1928) Sekisui House, Ltd. April 1, 2021 Toshinori Abe Chairman & Representative Director Sekisui House, Ltd. 1-88, Oyodonaka 1-chome, Kita-ku, Osaka NOTICE OF THE 70TH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS We express our deep appreciation to each of the shareholders for your extraordinary support. The 70th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of Sekisui House, Ltd. (the “Company” or “Sekisui House”) is to be held as stated below. Instead of attending the meeting in person, you may also review the enclosed “Reference Documents for General Meeting of Shareholders” and exercise your voting rights in writing or via the Internet by 6:00 p.m. on Monday, April 26, 2021. (Unless otherwise noted, all the times shown in this Notice are in Japan Standard Time.) 1. Date and Time: 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, April 27, 2021 2. Place of the Meeting: The Westin Osaka, 2nd Floor, Rose Room, 1-20, Oyodonaka 1-chome, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan Note: If the Rose Room exceeds its maximum occupancy, the Company will guide shareholders to a second venue or another location. We appreciate your understanding. 3. Agenda: Items for reporting: 1. Reports on the Business Report, the Consolidated Financial Statements and the Non-Consolidated Financial Statements for the 70th fiscal year (February 1, 2020 – January 31, 2021) 2. Report on the Results of Audit conducted by the Accounting Auditor and the Audit & Supervisory Board with respect to the Consolidated Financial Statements for the 70th fiscal year (February 1, 2020 – January 31, 2021) Proposals to be tabled: Proposal No. 1 Appropriation of Surplus Proposal No. -
Technical Expertise
Technical Expertise Kilpatrick Townsend’s large patent practice is characterized by a large depth and breadth of technical experience. The below list sets forth representative technical and industry expertise of selected partners & counsel who are available to work on patent due diligence matters and does not include the still wider wide range of expertise among our associates and patent agents. Many of the professionals highlighted below have expertise across multiple technical disciplines, but we have indicated areas that illustrate the diversity of our overall technical expertise. If you don’t see a technology/industry listed that you are interested in, we likely have expertise – please ask us. Electronics & Software Aeronautics Mark Mathison, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering (also has expertise in electromechanical devices, software, Internet, network, e-commerce). AI (Artificial Intelligence) Kate Gaudry, Ph.D. in Computational Neurobiology (also expertise in software, computers, and quantitative-biology). Rob Curylo, B.S. Electrical Engineering (also has expertise in machine learning for online marketing and credit risk assessment, & as workflow and machine-learning solutions for image and video editing). Autonomous Vehicles Ko-Fang Chang, former engineer at ViaSat (also has expertise in mobile devices and applications, wireless communications, networking and computer architecture). Bioinformatics Dave Raczkowski, Ph.D. in Physics (also has expertise in medical diagnostics, image processing, machine learning, databases and cloud computing; programmable logic, computer hardware, networking, energy management, nanotechnology, power supplies, and financial transactions and other Internet commerce). Blockchain (Cryptocurrency) Tom Franklin, former engineer at Lockeed & Hughes Electronics (also has expertise in Internet technology, content delivery, business methods, clean technology, circuit design, imaging arrays, cryptographic design, telecommunications, electronic design tools, wireless communications, networking and telemetry systems). -
SHIONOGI Annual Report 2013 [PDF 4.59MB]
Annual Report 2013 Year ended March 31, 2013 Annual Report 2013 SONG for the Real Growth The Company Policy of Shionogi Shionogi’s purpose Shionogi strives constantly to supply the best possible medicine to protect the health and wellbeing of the patients we serve. For this purpose, Shionogi will need to Pursue the search for even better medicines. Produce even better medicines. Promote awareness of these better medicines to more people so that more people will be able to use these medicines. Research, produce, and promote in an even more economical manner. For this purpose, Shionogi people will need to Strive ceaselessly day after day to improve their skills. Strive ceaselessly day after day to improve as human beings. As a result, Shionogi people will Find even greater satisfaction in their daily work and in their daily lives. Find even greater improvement in the quality of their lives. Find even greater prosperity in their lives. (Established in 1957) Shionogi’s Action Guidelines Mission Vision Value Mission We will deliver pharmaceuticals that offer an even higher level of satisfaction to patients, their families, and healthcare providers and improve the quality of life for patients and their families. Vision A company with a strong presence worldwide A company that has pride and dreams and embraces challenges Value Customer focus, Trust, Professionalism, On-site orientation, Respect for the individual Contents 02 Management Management 02 Shionogi’s 135-Year History 04 To Our Stakeholders 06 Snapshot 08 Performance Highlights 10 Interview with the President Shionogi’s Business 20 Shionogi’s Business Activities Activities 20 Research 22 Development 24 Sales 25 Overseas Business Activities 28 Manufacturing Editorial Policy 30 Pipeline Period Under Review 32 Major Products Fiscal 2012 (April 1, 2012–March 31, 2013) Certain activities continuing after fiscal 2012 are also included. -
Integrated Report 2020 Daiwa House Group Integrated Report 2020 30 Chapter Developing Our Businesses
Chapter Developing our Businesses Business Overview Summary of business Annual performance The Story of the Group’s Value Creation Single-Family Houses Bolstering competitiveness by expanding business opportunities deriving As a pioneer of industrialized construction, we build Houses sold (Domestic) housing infrastructure—the homes so essential to peo- Single-family houses from social issues ple’s wellbeing. Offering a rich product lineup designed (contracting) 5,917 to accommodate all thinkable needs for safe and enrich- Single-family houses Daiwa House Industry has evolved a distinctive business portfolio by addressing social issues through enhanced and expanded value chains ing living environments, we build both subdivisions and (subdivision) 2,066 custom houses. ZEH ratio 41% and broader product variations anticipating future needs. This diverse portfolio and the ability it gives us to draw on Group synergies enable us to offer customers comprehensive business proposals, the ultimate strength that drives our performance and growth. Leveraging this strength, we contribute to society by redeveloping existing communities as well as building whole new ones with a consistent vision. Our Rental Housing Business accommodates diversifying Rental Housing Rental housing units sold rental-housing needs. Our services feature vertically (Domestic) Message from the CEO integrated support from soil evaluation to design, Rental housing (low-rise) 31,334 FY2019 principal performance indices by business segment construction, and handover for landowners -
Sustainability Report 2019 Housing Innovation to Make Your Heart Feel at Home for the Year Ended January 31, 2019
Sustainability Report 2019 Housing innovation to make your heart feel at home For the year ended January 31, 2019 For the year ended January 31, 2019 Sustainability Report 2019 (Integrated, Environmental, and CSR Report) Creating value for sustainable growth through ESG management Sekisui House was the first company in the housing industry to be certified as an Eco-First Company by Japan’s Minister of the Environment (MOE). Head Office 1-1-88 Oyodonaka, Kita-ku, Osaka 531-0076, Japan Direct inquiries to: Corporate Social Responsibility Department Tel: +81-6-6440-3440 Environment Improving Department This document serves as Sekisui House’s report on the status of implementation for the 10 Principles of Tel: +81-6-6440-3374 the UN Global Compact (UNGC), which the group submits to the UN Global Compact Office. Corporate website: https://sekisuihouse.co.jp/english Published July 2019 Make home the happiest place in the world. People are born to be happy. People can help others find happiness, too. At Sekisui House, we embrace that truth in everything we do. Our extensive track record in the housing sector, where we have built more homes than any other company across the globe, speaks for itself: we have the ability—and responsibility—to make home the happiest place in the world. We strive to help people find happiness, be it enriching families’ lives through housebuilding projects and services or connecting people across the globe through business and procurement efforts. In pursuing that aim, we look forward to finding solutions to social issues and making the world we inhabit a better, more sustainable place.