A consortium of five companies led by Kajima has been awarded a contract for a portion of the highway construction project tendered by the state highway corporation of Algeria. The 1,200-kilometer highway running east-west across Algeria is being constructed in three sections, for which Kajima is constructing the eastern portion.

The Real-Time Disaster Mitigation System (RDMS) instantly recognizes, moment by moment, the changes occurring in a building immediately prior to, during and after an earthquake, and relays this information to building administrators and tenants. The system, which helps tenants avoid danger and aids in recovery and restoration efforts, has been installed for the first time in the Akihabara UDX Building.

EIEN is created by carbonizing concrete to make it more chemically stable, an idea inspired by the observation that much of the well-preserved concrete excavated from ruins in the outskirts of the Chinese city of Xian had carbonized. Kajima is now developing an analysis program to evaluate the durability of this concrete and confirm that it will last for thousands of years.

A consortium of five companies that includes Kajima has begun full-scale construction on an urban transportation system being built by the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This two-line rail system stretches 68 kilometers, making it the longest automated train system in the world. The opening is planned for 2009.

Kajima has completed mounting of the roof on Japan's largest water distribution reservoir, the No.6 reservoir at the Yokohama Waterworks Bureau's Kosuzume Reservoir (provisional name) in Kanagawa Prefecture. The aluminum domed roof, which measures 45.8 meters in diameter, was raised 7.5 meters using 15 winches.

Kajima's “water screen” technology utilizes ultra-fine droplets of water to create a “water curtain” designed as a fire prevention system. This technology was temporarily used for a civil engineering application during dismantling of a shield machine used during the Kasugai tunnel project currently under construction in Aichi Prefecture, under contract from the Chubu Regional Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT).

Several buildings designed and built by Kajima, including the Karuizawa Ohga Hall in Nagano Prefecture and the Lalique Museum in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture have been selected to receive the 47th BCS Award from the Building Contractors Society (BCS). This award is presented annually to the owners, designers and contractors of buildings that have been in use for more than one year.

Kajima has completed a new corporate image advertising campaign in collaboration with the global animation production company Production I.G. Inc. The copy created for the advertisement “NEED KAJIMA” reflects the idea that Kajima is a company needed by people, society and the world.