Maeda Corporation

Maeda Corporation celebrated its 100th anniversary on January 8, 2019.
Since our founding in Fukui Prefecture in 1919 as a civil engineering firm, our businesses have grown into urban civil engineering and building works as well as the de-contracting field even overseas.

Society has expected the construction industry to play a significant role up until today as an industry that supports the people's life through indispensable infrastructure. However, as Japan and the rest of the world face a great transformational period, Maeda must also transform or it will be unable to fulfill its duty to society. I believe this type of transformational period means we should return to the roots of our founding. Our origins are built on a foundation of challenge and sound management, which entails both an offensive and defensive stance. Maeda Corporation has always persevered throughout its 100-year history, such as taking on the challenge to be the best in Japan and in the world.

With one century in business as an opportunity, the ideal form of the new Maeda is a comprehensive infrastructure service company. We aim to shape the company into an organization integrating construction and infrastructure, or in other words engineering and services. Therefore, I believe we need to accumulate and establish service expertise in infrastructure while further enhancing our construction technology. Maeda demolished a building and waterway structure of a power plant constructed more than 80 years earlier and reused the waste concrete. Iron and concrete pieces are separated, the concrete is crushed to create aggregate, and the aggregate is used in recycled concrete as fill material in hollow...