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Do Kickbacks and Excessive Entertainment Really Exist? “I often hear that kickbacks and excessive entertainment are commonplace in the construction industry—but is that really true?” People who don’t work in the industry have started asking me this kind of question more and more often. Every time they do, I think to myself, “The construction industry…

Generating Profit Is Also Part of a Construction Manager’s Job. On-site work prioritizes safety above all else. At the same time, however, they are also expected to generate profit. Construction managers working on-site constantly face the highly contradictory challenge of how to increase profits while improving their technical skills. Safely, and yet…

What I Learned from My Mistakes It’s hard to believe that five years have already passed since I started working as a civil engineering construction manager. Amid my busy daily routine, I’ve had the opportunity to experience many different things. Naturally, having been in this job for five years, I’ve also encountered plenty of unpleasant situations and made many mistakes. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but due to my own poor planning, I…

Is Non-Regular Employment Better Suited for Remote Work? The spread of the novel coronavirus is having a major impact on employment. Since the second half of 2020, there has been a significant increase in media reports about companies offering voluntary retirement programs, and non-regular employees are facing situations where their employment contracts are being terminated or not renewed...

Personnel Issues at Construction Consulting Firms In my previous article, “Issues at Construction Consulting Firms from a Construction Consultant’s Perspective,” I wrote about the challenges facing these firms. Since the discussion on the message board was more lively than I expected, this time I’d like to ramble a bit about personnel issues at construction consulting firms—particularly those at our company…

At a grueling joint venture site, our company was the only one without a bonus. At the time, I was working at a site that was quite grueling. It was a project to construct the outer retaining wall around a marine disposal site for fly ash (waste) emitted from a thermal power plant. I was assigned there as a subcontractor for a two-company joint venture, but it was an incredibly tough site…

Common Threads in Two Thought-Provoking Articles: As I continue reading ”The God of Construction,” I occasionally come across articles that really make me think. Recently, these two articles stood out: ① The northern bypass route and the existing section of National Route 57 have opened! A moment when the work and efforts of the civil engineering industry pay off. ② The construction industry is a “service industry”—originating from…

National Route 57’s Northern Bypass and Existing Road Section Open Simultaneously! On October 3, 2020, the northern bypass and existing road section of National Route 57 in Kumamoto Prefecture opened to traffic. Construction had been underway to restore National Route 57, which suffered significant damage in the Kumamoto Earthquake, and both the northern restoration route and the existing section opened on October 3…

Why does this always happen to me… Sigh. That site supervisor’s (branch manager’s) day begins with a sigh and ends with a sigh. When I say, “Good morning,” he replies with a negative comment like, “Ugh, here we go again.” He attends the morning meeting while sighing. Above all, …