Taisei Corporation (1801.T)

Taisei Corporation engages in the civil engineering, building construction and development businesses in Japan. The company is involved in regional, urban, ocean, aerospace, and resources development, as well as energy supply, emissions trading, and development of infrastructure; and planning, designing, supervising, construction and installation, holding, lease, transfer, maintenance, management, and operation of roads, railways, harbors, airports, river facilities, water supplies and sewerage, government buildings, waste disposal facilities, parking and other public facilities, and similar facilities. It also engages in holding, leasing, maintenance, and management of hotels, sports facilities, recreational facilities, commercial facilities, offices, medical facilities, logistics facilities, warehouses, and educational and cultural facilities; provision of soil cleanup, water cleanup of river, lake and harbor, collection, transportation, arrangement, disposal, and reuse of wastes and construction by-products; and manufacture, procurement, sale, lease, and repair of plant, tools, and materials and other item. In addition, the company provides examination, evaluation, security, and protection services for buildings, infrastructure, and civil engineering structure; purchase, sale, lease, brokerage, maintenance, management, appraisal services for real property; and invests in real-property-related SPCs and real-estate investment trust funds. Further, it engages in land, sea, and air transportation businesses; acquiring, licensing and sale of industrial property rights and copyrights; information processing, lending money, non-life and life insurance agency, temporary personnel placement agency, and trade businesses. The company was formerly known as Nippon Doboku Corporation and changed its name to Taisei Corporation in 1946. Taisei Corporation was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in Shinjuku, Japan.