Japan Society of Civil Engineers/Promoting Work Style Reform Establishment of Industry-Government-Academia Examination Organization to Realize a Better System
The Japan Society of Civil Engineers (Chairman Tamon Ueda) has begun considering measures to promote work style reform in anticipation of the application of the upper limit on overtime work with penalties to the construction industry from April 2024. An organization to study industry-government-academia collaboration was set up, and the first meeting was held in Tokyo on the 13th. Grasping the current situation through interviews, etc., and extracting issues. For important issues, a working group (WG) will be set up to deepen discussions and formulate concrete solutions. In addition to responding to the upper limit regulation, we are exploring work style reforms to improve the overall construction production management system through cooperation among related parties. The idea is to increase the attractiveness of the construction industry and secure workers.
As a subordinate organization of the Construction Management Committee (Chairman: Kazuhiko Kato, Shimizu Corporation Managing Executive Officer, Civil Engineering Sales Headquarters, in charge of large-scale project promotion), the “2024 Special Subcommittee on Work Style Reform” (Chairman: Masahide Hotta, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo) Department of Civil Engineering) was established. By the end of the fiscal year, the subcommittee will formulate future directions and drafts of countermeasures for resolving issues related to work style reform. An interim report will be published in August 2011, and a final report will be compiled in November and December of the same year. In December of the same year, the results will be reported to the Construction Management Committee and the report will be made public.
The theme of the WG is undecided. However, as issues and points of contention, there are issues such as the way of cost estimation based on the premise of work style reform, improvement of productivity through cooperation between ordering and receiving parties, and understanding of the actual working situation using accumulated data from the Construction Career Up System (CCUS). It is assumed. Contract changes and design changes are also major issues.
The subcommittee collects information through existing materials and interviews, and identifies issues such as the causes of long working hours. The interviews will focus on industries that are highly compatible with the construction and civil engineering field, which is characterized by being labor-intensive and highly uncertain (influences of weather, etc.). Establish effective measures based on the issues and aim to reflect them in policy.
