ENR Announces Worldwide Rankings of Construction Companies for 1996

The Engineering News-Record (ENR), a leading weekly magazine, recently released its performance rankings of the world's top 225 construction companies. Kajima's rankings were as follows:

Category	Ranking
Foreign revenues	12 (Top ranking among Japanese companies)
Total revenues	1 (Including domestic sales)
Contract awards	1 (Including domestic orders)
Building construction in general	7 (Top ranking among Japanese companies)
Manufacturing plant construction	1
Asian region(excluding Japan)	6 (Rankings for companies not based in the region)
Americas region	5 (In rankings for companies not based in the region, Kajima ranked top among Japanese companies)

Exhibition Display Materials Moved from Paris to London

As mentioned in the last edition of this newsletter, Kajima displayed scale models and photographs of the Nagano Olympic Memorial Arena, the Izumo Dome, the Akita Sky Dome, DIB-200, and other projects at the Engineers of the Century Exhibition (L'art de l'ingéhieur), which was held at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris from June 25 to September 29, 1997. Considered a huge success, this exhibition attracted more than 70 thousand visitors. Kajima's materials from the exhibition have subsequently been moved to the London office of Kajima Europe B.V. (see address below).

Continued Recognition of Kajima's Energetic IR Activities

In September 1997, the Japan Security Analysts Association announced the results of the third annual selection by research analysts of outstanding companies with regard to information dis-closure. Kajima's full disclosure of con-solidated financial information and other aspects of its energetic investor relations (IR) programs were highly evaluated by the analysts, and the Company was deemed top in its industry with regard to information disclosure. This is the third consecutive year that Kajima has been singled out for this honor.

Aiming to further strengthen its relationships with stakeholders, Kajima intends to maintain its positive stance toward information disclosure and IR activities centering around its annual report.

Cleansing and Beautifying Old Concrete Surfaces

Kajima is considering the commercialization in Japan and France of its Beautiful Face Pack technology for cleansing and beautifying old concrete building surfaces. Beautiful Face Pack technology works in a manner similar to many of the cosmetic face-pack products used by women--simply apply a special solution, allow it to dry, and then peel it off. The technology is more environment friendly than other concrete building surface cleansing methods since there is no need to spray large amounts of water, process wastewater, or undertake work that generates dust and noise pollution.

Beautiful Face Pack technology has recently been tested on precast concrete panels on the front of an apartment building in Paris as well as on buildings in Japan and others in France.

Vol. 4
Winter 1998

• Major Restructuring of Tokyo Station:
  Challenging Workin a Limited Space
  
  
• KAJIMA Around the World
  
  
• KAJIMA Creations