Our Activities
Thai Shimizu’s Eco and CSR Activities
Since 2007, Thai Shimizu Corporation has pursued various Eco and CSR initiatives. Annual activities include visits to local elementary schools to raise student awareness for the environment, and beach cleanup activities. The school visits were carried out five times over the past four years, with a total of 463 students taking part. The number of participants in the beach cleanup activities increased each time it was held, and is now roughly 100 individuals, including employees, their family members, and participants from business partners.
Teaching students about the environment at an elementary school in Ayutthaya (December 14, 2010)
Beach cleanup at Pattaya (August 21, 2010)
Shimizu’s Vision Named a “Dream Theme” of the Super Collaborative Graduate School
The Super Collaborative Graduate School, in which approximately 50 businesses and other organizations (including 14 universities from across Japan) take part, opened in April 2011, with the goal of producing “Doctors of Innovation” who will serve as capable human resources across a wide range of fields. The Super Collaborative Graduate School will identify research themes that will contribute to global society and advance various research activities through industry, government, and academic collaboration.
Shimizu’s Green Float vision for the future has been named a Dream Theme, a core element of these activities.
Green Float (conceptual illustration)
Interacting with the Community at the Project Site
Site tours for local university students are being held at the construction site of the Pahang-Selangor Raw Water Tunnel in Malaysia, projected to be the world’s sixth-longest tunnel when completed. These tours are intended to help develop the next generation of site engineers by communicating to them the excitement and creativity involved in this profession. The workplace also accepts student interns. Approximately 200 students have taken part in a total of four site tours. Three students have studied as trainee-interns.
A commemorative photo taken during an on-site tour of the tunnel mouth (ADIT-4) by Universiti Teknologi MARA (April 3, 2010)
A lecture on tunnel construction for Universiti Teknologi MARA students (April 3, 2010)
Ecosystem Preservation Activities Undertaken in Partnership with Nonprofits: Animal Pathways
The second wildlife corridor, the Animal Pathway (a land bridge across a roadway), was completed and opened in March 2010 in the city of Hokuto, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, with the cooperation of nonprofit organizations including the Yamane (Japanese Dormouse) Museum of KEEP. Installing a wildlife corridor to connect wooded areas in animal habitats divided by roads makes it possible to protect small animals from traffic accidents while helping to preserve genetic biodiversity within a species by safeguarding their wide-ranging habitat. These efforts have won high marks for protecting small animals like the yamane, a near-threatened species (NT - Red Data Book) that has been designated a natural monument. In 2010, these efforts were recognized by a prize from the Minister of the Environment in the first contest for corporate activities on biodiversity.
A Japanese squirrel crosses the Animal Pathway
The first Animal Pathway in use
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