Technical Committee on the examination of the relationship between social environmental and concrete industrial system

In Japan, construction investment has been decreasing in recent years amidst complicated social conditions including globalization, a technologically-oriented society, a decrease in population, and aging with a slowing down of economic growth. Under such circumstances, keywords with a bad image are mentioned regarding the construction and concrete industries such as "sense of dead end," "excessive competition," "disadvantageous contract," and "unpopular." In order to discuss countermeasures to escape from this negative climate, we established a committee chiefly comprised of relatively young engineers and researchers to study social conditions, changes in domestic technologies and industrial structure, and overseas conditions that mold environmental conditions, with an awareness of the connection between the past, present, and future. This report summarizes the study results.