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Construction Management / Development Systems Lab
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The lab approaches the social mechanisms that keep infrastructure running from the perspective of management.
AboutAbout the lab
Training the future leaders of infrastructure projects
The Construction Management / Development Systems Lab studies the management and operation of construction projects, international development, and social systems.
Its subject is not only infrastructure facilities themselves, but also the social mechanisms, organizations, and human activities involved in their development and operation.
The lab values the process in which students think for themselves about the problems they tackle in their bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses.
Through presentations and discussions at weekly lab seminars, students work to find out what the real problem truly is.
Key terms
- Social decision-making
- A system for determining who decides, when, and how in matters involving many people and organizations
- Public procurement
- The system through which national and local governments place orders for construction work and services and enter into contracts
- Asset management
- An approach that treats infrastructure as an asset and manages it systematically to maximize its value from the start of use through renewal
NewsLab news
Lecturer Suzuki received the Graduate School of Engineering Hoga Award
Graduates and others received the GDN Springer Best Student Paper award
Professor Horita received the GDN Section Award
Project Professor Chun and a doctoral student received the Olympiad Medal paper award
Information session and lab introductions for prospective graduate students for academic year 2026
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies efforts to make "social infrastructure systems" function so that they can meet societal needs. These systems encompass infrastructure facilities together with the social mechanisms, organizations, and human activities involved in their development and operation. Research is divided into four areas: decision-making, international cooperation, procurement and contracting, and asset management.
*Illustrative imageManagement of Social Decision-Making
In infrastructure projects involving many stakeholders, the lab studies the problem of who decides what and how, in other words "how to decide how to decide," through theory, empirical research, and practice. Its applications extend to automated collaborative construction.
*Illustrative imageConflicts in International Cooperation Projects
In the field of international cooperation, the interests of diverse stakeholders collide. The lab analyzes organizations, institutions, policies, and discourse to explore paths toward resolving issues in development projects and to draw lessons for management.
*Illustrative imageProcurement and Contracting for Construction Work
The lab considers how clients, designers, contractors, and others should ideally share roles at each stage, from planning through maintenance. Using contract theory and past bidding data, it proposes new methods of public procurement.
*Illustrative imageInfrastructure Asset Management
This research uses ICT, AI, and data platform technologies to accurately grasp the condition and deterioration of infrastructure, and to determine the optimal timing and methods for repair and renewal.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMasahide HoritaPublications ↗
- Project ProfessorPang-Jo ChunPublications ↗
- LecturerYu MaemuraPublications ↗
- LecturerTakahiro SuzukiPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Tsurumi-tsubasa-bridge” LERK / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
- Management of Social Decision-Making: “Conference room table (Unsplash)” Breather breather / CC0 (cropped)
- Conflicts in International Cooperation Projects: “Neak Loeung Bridge April 2015” SereivanN from Phnom Penh, Cambodia / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Procurement and Contracting for Construction Work: “Construction of breakwater, Aka Island, Okinawa, Japan - October 2015” Rickard Törnblad / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Infrastructure Asset Management: “Drone view of a bridge during an inspection” FedericaGaspari / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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