is an

architectural Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings o ...

, civil engineering and

general contracting A general contractor, main contractor or prime contractor is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of a construction site, management of vendors and trades, and the communication of information to all involved parties throughout the course of ...

firm. It has annual sales of approximately US$15 billion and has been widely recognized as one of the top 5 contractors in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

and among the top 20 in the world. It is a family business listed in the Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges and a constituent of the Nikkei 225 index.

About Shimizu

The company is named after its founder Kisuke Shimizu, who was born in Koba Village, Etchu (now part of Toyama), and has nothing to do with the former city Shimizu in

Shizuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northea ...

. Kisuke Shimizu formed the company in Edo (now Tokyo) in 1804. The company has been headquartered there ever since. Shimizu Corporation is an international general contractor, publicly listed on the Tokyo, Nagoya Stock Exchange and the Osaka Securities Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index. It has a network spanning Asia, Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa.

Services offered

* Planning & Consulting * Development & Financing * Design * Construction * Facility Management * Maintenance * Renovation * Engineering & Technology * Research & Development

Notable constructions

Japan * Yoyogi National Gymnasium * Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line - Aqua-Line tunnel and Umihotaru (an artificial island used as a rest station on the Aqua-Line) * JR Hakata City * Haneda Airport runway D * Fukuoka Airport Cargo Terminal * Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower Asia *

Bãi Cháy Bridge The Bãi Cháy Bridge ( vi, Cầu Bãi Cháy, links=no) is a cable-stayed bridge on Highway 18, connecting Hồng Gai with Bãi Cháy over the Cửa Lục straits, separating Cửa Lục Bay with Hạ Long Bay, on the territory of Hạ Long ci ...

* Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 3 * Malaysia–Singapore Second Link *

Bính Bridge Bính Bridge ( vi, Cầu Bính) is a cable-stayed bridge across the Cấm River connecting the Hai Phong city with Thủy Nguyên District and out to Quảng Ninh. History Bính Bridge is a modern cable-stayed bridge, some 1280 metres long ...

* Luzhou Line (Taipei Metro) * THSR Tainan Station

Dream Megaproject Concepts

*Lunar Solar Power Generation -

Luna Ring Luna Ring is a speculative engineering project which consists of a series of solar generators, disposed around the equator of the Moon, that could send the generated electric energy back to the Earth via microwaves from the near side of the Moon. ...

(generation of electricity using a belt of solar cells around the lunar equator) *TRY2025 The Environmental Island - Green Float (botanical city concept) * Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid (a massive pyramid over Tokyo Bay) *Inter Cell City (a sustainable, environmentally conscious city) *Space Hotel (space tourism) *Lunar Bases *Urban Geo-Grid Plan (coordination of facilities above ground and underground for increased efficiency) *Desert Aqua-Net Plan (desert canals) *Ocean Spiral (underwater city)

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