JSCE Awards in 2024


JSCE has presented awards to researchers who have made great achievements, published excellent papers, or proposed outstanding research projects.
The awards from the concrete engineering field are introduced.

List of Award Winners 
Achievement Award (Click here for more details)
• Shigeyoshi Tanaka (Chairman, President and CEO, TAISEI CORPORATION)

Technical Award (Click here for more details)
[Group I]
• Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Chugoku Regional Development Bureau, San-in West National Highway Office; Sato Kogyo Co., Ltd.; Gifu Kogyo Co., Ltd.; Namacon Nagato Co., Ltd.; Chugoku High-Pressure Concrete Industry Co., Ltd.;Chiba Institute of Technology
• Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Kanto Regional Development Bureau, Keihin River Office; OBAYASHI CORPORATION
• Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Chubu Regional Development Bureau, Iida National Highway Office; HAZAMA ANDO CORPORATION; Penta-Ocean Construction Co., Ltd.
• Japan Water Agency; TAISEI CORPORATION

[Group II]
• West Nippon Expressway Company Limited (Kansai Branch); Kajima Corporation
• Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc.; Kajima Corporation
• Niigata City; East Japan Railway Company, Joshinetsu Construction Project Management Office

Environmental Award (Click here for more details)
[Group I]
• Shimizu Corporation

Research Paper Award (Click here for more details)
• Tomohiko Takahashi (Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.) et al.

Incentive Paper Award (Click here for more details)
• Hiroaki Aoki (Yokohama National University / Tokyo Electric Power Services Co., Ltd.)

Yoshida Award (Click here for more details)
[Achievement]
• Yasunori Matsuoka (Formerly of TAISEI CORPORATION)

[Research Encouragement]
• Han Jike (Kyoto University)
• Taku Koyama (Gunma University)
• Masamitsu Suzuki (Tokyu Construction Co., Ltd.)

Tanaka Award (Click here for more details)
[Achievement]
• Shin Narui(Fujiken Engineering Design Center Co., Ltd.)
• Akio Kasuga (Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co., Ltd.)
• Hiroshi Mutsuyoshi (Emeritus Professor, Saitama University)

 [Bridge Design and Construction]
• Jain Kokhla Bridge
• Futami Bridge (Phase II Line)
• Large-scale renewal of the Tomei Tamagawa Bridge
• Large-scale renewal of the Kire Uriwari Bridge

Innovative Technique Award (Click here for more details)
• Yuji Watanabe(Kajima Corporation)et al.
• Toshitsugu Tanaka(NIPPON HUME CORPORATION)et al.
• Takayoshi Tomii(OBAYASHI CORPORATION)et al.
• Tsutomu Yamada(TODA CORPORATION)et al.

Selection Policy for various JSCE Awards
Achievement Award
Achievement Award is given to members who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of civil engineering, the development of civil engineering projects, and the administration of JSCE.

Technical Award
The Technical Award is given to groundbreaking achievements that have made significant contributions to the development of civil engineering technology in the areas of planning, design, and construction.
・In Group I, selection will be made for groundbreaking individual technologies in infrastructure planning, design, construction, operation, or maintenance that have made significant contributions to the advancement of civil engineering technology and to societal development.
This category includes not only “hard technologies” but also “soft technologies” such as information systems, management methods, business models, and institutional frameworks.
・In Group II, selection will be made for groundbreaking projects that have made significant contributions to the advancement of civil engineering technology and to societal development. This category includes not only new construction projects but also renewal and renovation projects.

Environmental Award
Environmental Award is given to epoch-making achievements in the development and operation of civil engineering technologies and systems that reduce the burden on the environment and contribute to the preservation of a good environment and the creation of a more affluent environment, as well as to epoch-making projects that contribute to the preservation of the environment and creation of an environment in which humans and nature can coexist.
•In Group I, selection will be made for advanced civil engineering research that has contributed to the development of new technologies, concept formation, theory building, etc., that contribute to the conservation, improvement, and creation of an environment in which humans and nature can coexist.
•In Group II, the selection is based on groundbreaking projects that have contributed to the conservation and creation of an environment in which humans and nature can coexist through the development and operation of civil engineering technologies and systems.

Research Achievement Award
Research Achievement Award is given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement and systematization of science and technology in civil engineering through a series of papers and other achievements in research, planning, design, construction, engineering design, or maintenance management.

Research Paper Award
Research Paper Award is given to the author of a paper on research, planning, design, construction, engineering design, or maintenance management that has made a significant contribution to the advancement and systematization of civil engineering science and technology.

Incentive Paper Award
Incentive Paper Award is given to a person under 40 years of age who has made a major contribution to the advancement and development of science and technology in civil engineering and is recognized as highly original and promising in his or her research, planning, design, construction, engineering design, or maintenance management papers published in the field of civil engineering.

Yoshida Award
Yoshida Award was established to commemorate the achievements of the late Dr. Tokujiro Yoshida.
•In the Research Achievement Category, those who are recognized as having made significant achievements in the advancement and development of technology related to concrete are eligible for selection.
•In the Research Paper Category, the award is given to a single paper or report on concrete published in a JSCE publication that has made a significant contribution to the development of concrete engineering.
•In the Research Encouragement Category, the recipients of the award are those who are engaged in research related to concrete engineering, are under 40 years of age and who are recognized as having particular originality and potential.

Tanaka Award
Tanaka Award was established to commemorate the achievements of the late Dr. Yutaka Tanaka.
•In the Achievement Category, those who are recognized as having made outstanding achievements in the advancement and development of bridge engineering are eligible for selection.
•In the Research Paper Category, papers that have made a significant contribution to the development of bridge engineering are eligible for selection.
•In Bridge Design and Construction Category, papers that have made a significant contribution to the development of bridge engineering are selected.
•In the Technical Category, excellent or innovative technologies applied to bridges or similar structures that are unique in terms of planning, design, fabrication/construction, maintenance, renewal, rehabilitation, demolition, and removal are eligible for selection.

Innovative Technique Award
Innovative Technique Award is given to individuals or teams that have developed and put into practical use technologies that are recognized as highly original and ingenious in planning, design, construction, or maintenance, and that have contributed to society through the development of civil engineering technology.

Conference Information
CECAR10:Sustainable Management and Resilient Technology in Civil Engineering
Held in Jeju, Korea, 21-24 October, 2025

IIIAE2025 (International Institute of Innovative Acoustic Emission & 27th International Acoustic Emission Symposium (IAES-27))
Nagoya,Japan, 4-7 November, 2025

the 7th fib Congress
Lisbon,Portuguese Republic, 15-19 June, 2026

Bridge Engineering Institute Conference in 2026 (BEI-2026)
Singapore, 20-23 July, 2026

2nd International conference on Mineral Carbonation for Cement and Concrete (2nd MC3 Conference)
Tokyo,Japan, 28-30 September, 2026
Free Downloads of past publications in JSCE concrete committee
The JSCE Concrete Committee

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