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Hello, everyone. This is Enta. Do you use water meters? Lately, I’ve been seeing them used quite often in ground anchor construction projects and for shotcrete work. I even tried using one at a job site I was working on the other day. The reason is that if the general contractor awards points for innovative ideas, I try to use them as much as possible…

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. It’s about time for the peak of heatstroke season! Are you taking any precautions? Air-conditioned clothing is an option, too. (It’s all the rage these days.) We got some a few years ago, but people with strong preconceptions just refuse to use it, saying they can’t use something like that, and it ended up sitting unused…

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. The other day, I mixed some cement slurry. It was 8 bags × 6 batches. The mixer I rented was really tall, so it was incredibly hard work! First, I had to lift the cement (8 bags) up to the base of the mixer. Then I had to pour it in again from there. It wasn’t that much, though…

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. The other day, I went out to a job site. One of our employees took a day off for personal reasons, so I went in as a replacement. I’m in charge of the plant (a ground anchor site). A young employee is working on his second job site as an operator. As I watched him drill, I thought, “He’s actually pretty good at this…”

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. Lately, I’ve been going back and forth between Nagano and Aichi Prefectures, and the temperature difference is so extreme it’s unbearable! In areas with heavy snow and bitter cold, projects get postponed and don’t start until around March or April. And even though costs are high despite the cold, the unit price…