The Obayashi Foundation presents awards to persons who make outstanding contributions to solving urban problems and runs a support program for urban studies and the like. In addition, the foundation provides scholarships to students studying to become urban planning professionals or researchers.

In this program, we donate the same amount as each employee donates. We have invited our officers and employees to participate in it. We give donations to the four main priorities of our social contribution: to provide support for disasters, to be environmentally responsible, to be a good citizen in local communities and to inspire the next generation.

We are developing technology that can produce "tasty", "safe", and "high-functional" farm products by artificially controlling the environments necessary for plants' growth, in order to promote sustainable food production.

• the concept of "COMPACT AGRICULTURE" (recycling-oriented agriculture)

We are protecting and nurturing fishery products through green infrastructures, for example, by constructing the rearing places for Manila (Asari) clams at coastal areas, and cleaning seawater through abalone (farming) ecosystem in their rearing.

• Obayashi Green Infrastructure (Available only in Japanese)
• Seawater Cleaning Technology Enables Land-Based Abalone Cultivation

We are working to maintain and improve our employees' health through enhancing of various initiatives to enable them to be mentally and physically fit and lead fulfilling lives. Those initiatives include various types of health checks, stress checks, and clinical psychologists' counseling.

We are helping each employee achieve work-life balance so that they can work in physically and mentally healthy and energetical way, and we are implementing various initiatives, such as reduction of overall work time through work style reform, improvement of several types of human resource system and environments.

Through thinking of fundamentals for sustainable medical and welfare facilities, we are providing total supports including business planning, design, construction, opening supports, and operation supports, by utilizing our know-how as construction company.

• "Pandemic Emergency Center (PEC)" (hospital ward for infectious diseases)

  This temporary emergency ward provides supports to solve hospital bed shortage due to spread of infectious diseases, such as Covid-19 and novel influenza infection.

• "Multi Mist®" (equipment enabling automatic disinfection of environmental surface in absence of users)

  This is a system that disinfects environmental surface with chemical mist spray, to minimize infectious risk from bacteria and virus.

We are contributing to purification of air and water and remediation of soils, through our initiatives in green infrastructures.

• Obayashi Green Infrastructure (Available only in Japanese)

In this program, we donate the same amount as each employee donates. We have invited our officers and employees to participate in it. We give donations to the four main priorities of our social contribution: to provide support for disasters, to be environmentally responsible, to be a good citizen in local communities and to inspire the next generation.

Based on the idea that human resources are one of our most important management resources, we are conducting various trainings in order to inherit "attitude of honest craftsmanship" and "technological capabilities" that we acquired since our establishment.

For the purpose of developing skilled construction business workers for the future, we are conducting various programs such as tours and seminars, in order to convey kids and students how fascinating the construction industry is.

• Securing and Developing Skilled Construction Business Workers

  We have established the Vocational Training School* in 2014, in order to develop skilled construction business workers, and inherit the technologies. Our employees and our suppliers' employees are lecturing there.

  * Regional Organization for Vocational Training, utilizing the system of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. The Obayashi Rin-yu-kai Vocational Training School has been certified by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

The Obayashi Foundation presents awards to persons who make outstanding contributions to solving urban problems and runs a support program for urban studies and the like. In addition, the foundation provides scholarships to students studying to become urban planning professionals or researchers.

In this program, we donate the same amount as each employee donates. We have invited our officers and employees to participate in it. We give donations to the four main priorities of our social contribution: to provide support for disasters, to be environmentally responsible, to be a good citizen in local communities and to inspire the next generation.

Under the Human Rights Policy, and as part of our efforts to meet our responsibilities of respecting human rights towards everyone, we are developing guidelines, establishing consultation desks, raising awareness of our employees, etc. for prevention of sexual harassment, etc.

• Consultation Desks on Human Rights

Aiming to further enhance and invigorate our human resource capabilities and organizational capabilities, we have established numerical targets based on Japan's Act on Promotion of Women's Participation and Advancement in the Workplace, in order to promote further opportunities for female employees.

• Fostering Sound Workplace Culture

  We also strive to improve the environment that helps each employee, no matter their gender, to achieve work-life balance.

• ESG DATA BOOK (Human Resources)

Though our initiatives with green infrastructures, including construction of dams that can prevent natural disaster while restoring ecosystems such as rivers, we are contributing to ecosystem protection and water purification.

• Obayashi Green Infrastructure (Available only in Japanese)

By constructing and reinforcing the dams, we are contributing to provision of safe water necessary for our life.

• OBAYASHI DAM WORLD（Available only in Japanese）

By monitoring water consumption volume at each construction site, we are working with our supply chains to reduce the consumption volume.

• ESG DATA BOOK（Water Consumption(Non-consolidated）)

We are promoting the renewable energy business in response to the needs for realizing the carbon neutrality.

We are not only reducing CO2 emitted through our business activities by introducing renewable energy and promoting energy saving, but also actively striving to reduce CO2 emitted though operation of the building delivered to our clients, by promoting ZEB (Zero-Energy Building).

• Techno-station, Obayashi's main technical research institute

  It has obtained ZEB certifications for seven consecutive years since 2014.

• "Port Plus®", Japan's first fully-wooden and fire-resistant high-rise structure

  It has obtained ZEB Ready certification.

• YOKOHAMA SYMPHOSTAGE^TM

  　It has obtained ZEB Ready certification.

• Obayashi's Head office building (in Shinagawa)

  It uses electricity wholly (100%) procured from renewable energy.

• Project awards announcement："Atlassian Central, The world's tallest hybrid-timber building" （August 24, 2022）
• Obayashi Corporation Exchanged Views on Carbon Neutrality with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern（June 1, 2022）

We are issuing bonds (ESG bonds) to finance solution of environmental issues, and applying those funds to construction projects (such as renewable energy power stations, and green buildings), and development of next-generation energy technologies.

• Obayashi Green Bond
• Obayashi Sustainability Bond
• Obayashi Sustainability Link Bond

We are helping each employee achieve work-life balance so that they can work in physically and mentally healthy and energetical way, and we are implementing various initiatives, such as reduction of overall work time through work style reform, improvement of several types of human resource system and environments.

Aiming to realize well-being for both our employees and the collaborating skilled construction business workers, we strive to develop human resources.

• Establishment of the Vocational Training School for workers at construction sites
• Ensuring Health and Safety Education

We recognize our employees' freedom of association and rights to collective bargaining, and have established the work conditions in compliance with various relevant laws and regulations. We periodically hold labor-management meetings (such as Labor-Management Council and health committee) to discuss broader issues, such as more comfortable workplaces (shorter working hours, better working systems, childcare /home nursing care supports), benefits system, health and safety, and better health management.

Aiming to realize well-being, we strive to create workplaces that can give opportunities for diverse human resources.

In response to increasingly diversified and advanced needs from our customers and the societies, we strive to innovate construction technologies in broader areas.

• Building the Innovative Construction Production Systems

  Aiming to improve productivity and safety at construction sites, we are utilizing ICT and robotics across all processes.

• BIM
• ODICT
• Technology Development

• Development of an autonomous logistics system for construction site with multi AGV(Automatic Guided Vehicle) collaboration（November 9, 2021）

To "value every one of our associates", we strive to ensure respect for human rights, in accordance with international norms on human rights, such as "United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights".

Aiming to realize well-being, we strive to create workplaces that can give opportunities for diverse human resources.

• ESG DATA BOOK (Human Resources)

To develop the infrastructures for social and economic activities to provide secure and safe living, we strive to reinforce, and extend the life of, various building and structures.

By embodying technologies that make the society more convenient and richer, prevent our life from disasters, and enable the society and the Earth to coexist, we are contributing to societies.

Towards the resilient and sustainable futures, we are developing various technologies, and providing solutions.

• Promoting Wooden Structures and Interiors

  With our vision of "With trees, to the future" to create the rich recycling-oriented society around trees, we are promoting wooden structures, to stimulate sound recycling of forest resources, by "consuming, planting, and growing."

• OBAYASHI WOOD VISION（Available only in Japanese）
• LOOP50
• Japan's First All-Timber Fire-Resistant High-Rise Building Construction Technologies
• Obayashi Green Infrastructure

  By actively introducing green infrastructure, we strive to create sustainable life and natural environments.

• Obayashi Green Infrastructure (Available only in Japanese)

• Project awards announcement："Atlassian Central, The world's tallest hybrid-timber building" （August 24, 2022）

We remain committed to "early recovery of social infrastructures, etc. on disasters", which is the construction company's important mission. Also, we are maintaining and repairing the historical and cultural structures to leave them for future generations.

• Enhancing BCP Reaction Capabilities on Disasters
• Kumamoto Castle Keeps Restoration and Maintenance Work Project
• Kumamoto Earthquake
• Great East Japan Earthquake

• Introduction with a Video to the Five-year Path to the Restoration of the Castle Keeps of Kumamoto Castle（February 2, 2022）

With our vision of "With trees, to the future" to create the rich recycling-oriented society around trees, we are promoting wooden structures, to stimulate sound recycling of forest resources, by "consuming, planting, and growing."

• OBAYASHI WOOD VISION（Available only in Japanese）
• LOOP50
• Japan's First All-Timber Fire-Resistant High-Rise Building Construction Technologies
• O･Mega Wood (FR)

• Project awards announcement："Atlassian Central, The world's tallest hybrid-timber building" （August 24, 2022）

We are developing and actually applying low carbon materials, in collaboration with our supply chains, etc.

• "Clean-Crete®" (low-carbon concrete)

  Eco-friendly concrete that can substantially reduce CO2 emissions.

We are promoting procurement of materials with less environmental impacts.

• Obayashi Group CSR Procurement Policy/Guidelines
• Obayashi Green Procurement Guideline (Available only in Japanese)

Implementing "Zero-Emission Construction Site Activities" to reduce waste creations and make final disposal waste closer to zero, we are promoting resource saving in construction industry through recycling and reduction of wastes.

• ESG DATA BOOK（Resource Circulation）

We are conducting scenario analysis based on TCFD Recommendation, and identifying business risks and opportunities associated with climate change, and are establishing indicators and targets against the CO2 emission reduction by 2050.

We are promoting the renewable energy business in response to the needs for realizing the carbon neutrality.

• ESG DATA BOOK (Environment)

• Obayashi Corporation Exchanged Views on Carbon Neutrality with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern（June 1, 2022）

In response to diverse needs for realizing carbon neutrality, we are providing comprehensive and effective solutions to reduce CO2, based upon our abundant expertise.

• Promoting Wooden Structures and Interiors

  With our vision of "With trees, to the future" to create the rich recycling-oriented society around trees, we are promoting wooden structures, to stimulate sound recycling of forest resources, by "consuming, planting, and growing."

• OBAYASHI WOOD VISION（Available only in Japanese）
• LOOP50
• Japan's First All-Timber Fire-Resistant High-Rise Building Construction Technologies
• Greening, and Measures to Urban Heat Island Effects

  We are promoting our initiatives for roof-top greening and wall greening, etc.

• Project awards announcement："Atlassian Central, The world's tallest hybrid-timber building" （August 24, 2022）

We are implementing business activities taking into consideration resource recycling, and securing of safe land and water.

• Environmental Policy
• Biodiversity Policy

With green infrastructures, including construction of dams that can restore ecosystems such as rivers, and construction of the rearing places for Manila (Asari) clams at coastal areas, we stive to protect ecosystems and purify water with ecosystems.

• Obayashi Green Infrastructure (Available only in Japanese)
• Seawater Cleaning Technology Enables Land-Based Abalone Cultivation

We have established our Policy on Biodiversity, and are promoting our initiatives for contributing to preservation of biodiversity and sustainable utilization of biological resources, through our business activities.

• Environmental Policy
• Biodiversity Policy

By restoring the nature with biotopes, and greening the slopes of strongly acid soils, we are protecting terrestrial ecosystems through green infrastructure.

• Obayashi Green Infrastructure (Available only in Japanese)

With our vision of "With trees, to the future" to create the rich recycling-oriented society around trees, we are promoting wooden structures, to stimulate sound recycling of forest resources, by "consuming, planting, and growing."

• OBAYASHI WOOD VISION（Available only in Japanese）
• LOOP50
• Japan's First All-Timber Fire-Resistant High-Rise Building Construction Technologies
• O･Mega Wood (FR)

• Project awards announcement："Atlassian Central, The world's tallest hybrid-timber building" （August 24, 2022）

In order to implement sensible course of action with high ethical standards, we are developing various measures under our Corporate Ethics Program.

• Introduction, Implementation, Verification, and Improvement on Specific Measures to Establish Corporate Ethics

  We have introduced our Corporate Ethics Program that prevents every corruption, and are conducting evaluation of the effectiveness.

• Obayashi Group Corporate Ethics Consultation and Reporting System

  We have established reporting offices for everyone involved in our business, not only our group companies, but also our supply chains.

• Obayashi Group CSR Procurement Policy/Guidelines

To "value every one of our associates", we strive to ensure respect for human rights, in accordance with international norms on human rights, such as "United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights".

By promoting CSR procurements, and supporting educations for our suppliers, we are actively conducting fair trading and building stronger mutual trust with our suppliers.

• Obayashi Group CSR Procurement Policy/Guidelines
• Obayashi Rin-yu-kai

官／学、同業、協力会社との協働により、オープンイノベーションなど新たな価値創造に向けて積極的に取り組んでいます。

• Obayashi SVVL (Silicon Valley Ventures & Laboratory)

  大林組が米国シリコンバレーにおけるオープンイノベーション拠点として2017年に開設。発足以来、スタートアップ企業や研究機関が持つ革新的なデジタル技術（ビジョン、AI、クラウド、IoT、ロボットなど）の建設産業への適用を促し、建設プロセスの生産性や品質の向上に寄与する製品・サービスの共同開発を行っています。

• 米国・オープンイノベーション拠点がJAPANコンストラクション国際賞の特別賞を受賞（2022.6.29）

We remain committed to work with our supplier (such as by sharing BCPs) to implement "early recovery of social infrastructures, etc. on disasters", which is the construction company's important mission.

We uphold the Ten Principles of United Nations Global Compact composed of human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption, and are engaged in activities as a good member of the society to build a healthy global society.

• Main environmental-related participating and supporting organizations