Kumagai Gumi
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Kumagai Gumi Co., Ltd. (株式会社熊谷組, Kabushiki-gaisha Kumagai Gumi) is a Japanese construction company founded in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. The company still has registered headquarters in Fukui, but the actual head office is located in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
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 Kumagai Gumi headquarters in Tokyo | |
Native name | 株式会社熊谷組 |
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| Company type | Public (K.K) |
| TYO: 1861 | |
| ISIN | JP3266800006 |
| Industry | Construction Engineering |
| Founded | (January 1898, 01) in Fukui, Japan |
| Founder | Santaro Kumagai |
| Headquarters | Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8557 , Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Yasushi Higuchi (President) |
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| Revenue | JPY 344.7 billion (FY 2016) (US$ 3.07 billion) (FY 2016) |
| JPY 16.4 billion (FY 2016) (US$ 146 million) (FY 2016) | |
Number of employees | 3,798 (as of March 31, 2016) |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
History
Santaro Kumagai, the company's founder, began his career as a civil servant in a police department. His construction career started as a stonemason, crafting religious monuments and performing work for the expanding railway network.[3]
Kumagai founded his own company in 1898 and incorporated it in 1938. Between 1955 and 1983 the company accounted for more than 10% of all contracts awarded to the fifty-seven members of the Overseas Construction Association of Japan, a figure that outranked the ‘Big Five’ domestic giant construction companies.[4] As overseas projects were riskier, these five companies were reluctant to expand beyond Japan. Kumagai Gumi took advantage of the situation and sought work overseas, as both as a construction company and a developer, using BOT as project financing, becoming one of the leading proponents of BOT in Southeast Asia. By 1985 overseas earnings amounted to 46% of Kumagai's total contracts.[5]
In the 1980s the company became the largest Japanese real estate investor in New York City,[6] investing in projects in Manhattan, including in projects developed by William Zeckendorf Jr.[7]
Major works
Dams and railways
- Tokuyama Dam - Ibigawa
- Mass Transit Railway - Hong Kong (numerous contracts)
- Delhi Metro Yellow line - Delhi[8]
- Taipei Metro Bannan Line - Taipei[9]
- Bangkok Metropolitan Rapid Transit Blue Line - Bangkok[9]
- North East MRT line - Singapore[10]
- East–West MRT line Changi Airport branch - Singapore
- Marmaray rail link - Istanbul[11]
- Skitube Alpine Railway - Sydney[12]
Tunnels
- Water tunnel at Plover Cove - New Territories, Hong Kong[13]
- Modified Initial System (section between Admiralty and Tsim Sha Tsui stations) - Victoria City and Kowloon, Hong Kong[13]
- Seikan Tunnel - Aomori and Hakodate[13]
- Eastern Harbour Crossing - Hong Kong[3][13]
- Sydney Harbour Tunnel - Sydney[14]
- Western Harbour Crossing - Hong Kong[13]
- Eagle's Nest Tunnel - Hong Kong[15]
Skyscrapers
Hotels
References
External links
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