Daiwa House Group Business Solution

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Model

Transforming a historic 50-year-old market into a landmark for the next five decades Toyama Public Wholesale Market Redevelopment Project

For many years, wholesale markets across Japan have been rooted in their communities and have supported people’s everyday lives.
Over the years, they have faced a range of complex issues, including the aging of facilities and a downward trend in the volume of products distributed due to changes in people's eating habits.
The Daiwa House Group has developed its own solution to this issue.
In this project, the New Toyama Ichiba Creation Project Team took on the challenge of creating a new market using a public-private partnership (PPP) model utilizing private-sector know-how in the provision of public services. The New Toyama Ichiba Creation Project Team is a business consortium of nine companies as of March 2022 led by Daiwa House Industry as the representative company.
Three divisions handling fruits and vegetables, marine products, and flowers are working together with 22 intermediate wholesalers to pass the market’s role as a part of social infrastructure supporting the local food supply onto the future.
In addition, against the backdrop of Toyama City being selected as an SDGs Future City, the Group proposed an operation and development scheme to support the market from a 30-year long-term perspective We have always aimed, and will continue to aim, to help create a society that is in harmony with individuals, communities, and people’s lifestyles.

D-Project Data Center (DPDC)

Bringing together all of our construction technologies to create world-class IT infrastructure DPDC Inzai Park

As people’s lives and corporate activities around the world rapidly shift to digital activities, data centers have become an indispensable part of social infrastructure that supports people's everyday lives and economic activities.
Since its founding, the Daiwa House Group has developed logistics and other commercial facilities. Drawing on the industrialized construction technologies and expertise it has cultivated through its logistics brands, which include D-Project and DPL, the Group launched its data center brand, D-Project Data Center (DPDC).
DPDC Inzai Park is in an area with direct access to both Narita Airport and Haneda Airport, making it well positioned to support the flow of technologies and information between Japan and the world.
It is conveniently located approximately one hour by car from central Tokyo, which also has advantages in terms of customer support, equipment procurement and emergency response.
On the approximately 270,000 m2 site, the Group plans to develop 14 buildings and build an adjoining substation capable of supplying approximately 600 MW of power. To respond to the rapidly changing needs of society, we will continue to expand our development of life infrastructure that supports people’s everyday lives.

Commercial complex

Co-creating commercial facilities to facilitate regional disaster preparedness Triada Munakata

No one can predict crises such as climate change-related events or natural disasters.
Places that provide peace of mind as an extension of everyday life are becoming increasingly important.
Multiple stores continued to operate during the renovation of Triada Munakata, which reopened in 2022 as a mixed-use facility. It is a combination of everyday uses, such as shopping and fitness, and disaster preparedness features.
The facility is equipped with eight disaster preparedness features, including manhole toilets, an emergency supply storage facility and an evacuation area for people sheltering in their cars. It has also concluded an agreement with Munakata City to be a designated emergency evacuation site.
In addition, its storage battery system is capable of powering 100 smartphones and 40 LED lights for approximately four days, or 100 hours, during a disaster.*
The project has transformed a commercial facility into a piece of social infrastructure that helps protect the local community.

1. *Actual duration may vary depending on connected devices and conditions.

Biomass Power Generation

Opening a new path to carbon neutrality by continuing to challenge ourselves until we achieve it Hibikinada Thermal Power Station

We generate renewable energy through a wide variety of methods such as solar, wind, and hydropower systems, but we are still on a long journey to the achievement of carbon neutrality. Biomass power generation systems use biomass, organic resources derived from plants, animals and other biological materials, to generate electricity through combustion or gasification. The Daiwa House Group is proceeding with a plan to transform the Hibikinada Thermal Power Station into a dedicated biomass-fired power plant as part of its efforts to achieve carbon neutrality.
We are considering a plan to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including carbon dioxide and methane, by approximately 450,000 tons while maintaining the power station's conventional power generation output. Through this initiative, we aim to address the challenge of the fluctuation in renewable energy output due to natural conditions and ensure a stable supply of electricity.
The reborn Hibikinada Thermal Power Station will generate a new form of renewable energy, following solar, wind and hydropower.

BIZ Livness

A revitalization project highlighting the charm of a historic building MIRAIZA OSAKA-JO

The Imperial Japanese Army’s 4th Division Command Center was built in 1931 on the east side of Osaka Castle’s honmaru, the castle’s inner bailey. After World War II, the building was used as a police headquarters. Later, it became widely loved as the Osaka City Museum.
In 2017, more than 90 years after its construction, a new perspective was taken in the renovation of the building, preserving the atmosphere of the era, but transforming the building into MIRAIZA OSAKA-JO. The renovation, which included seismic reinforcement and the upgrading of infrastructure and disaster prevention equipment, enabled the building to be reborn as a safe facility.
The project received the 40th Osaka Urban Landscape Architecture Award, also known as the Osaka Machinami Award, with the following comment: The design and materials from the time the building was originally constructed were carefully preserved and restored, reviving its historic beautiful exterior and entrance area.
This project is a part of the BIZ Livness initiative supporting our corporate real estate (CRE) strategy by strategically repurposing real estate through brokerage, purchase and resale, and renovation. It is one of our initiatives to build a circular value chain from the perspective of local communities and customers.

Complex development

A new landmark for a tourism hub A gateway to the Osaka Castle Park

A new mixed-use hub integrating media and tourism has been created at the gateway to Osaka Castle Park, an area surrounded by water and greenery a five-minute walk from JR Temmabashi Station in Osaka.
The Otemae 1-Chome Project site is a 4,372.56 m2 site adjacent to Osaka Castle Park.
The facility houses not only a television station that broadcasts information to the local community, but also the 373-guest-room DoubleTree by Hilton Osaka Castle, Hilton’s first DoubleTree brand hotel in the Kansai region, which strengthens the area's ability to function as a tourism hub. The project also considers harmony with the verdant surrounding environment, the improvement of walkability and circulation in this vibrant area, and disaster preparedness.

Off-site PPA

Becoming Japan's first stadium to use 100% renewable energy Hanshin Koshien Stadium

With a view to carbon neutrality, we are bolstering our off-site PPA business. In this business, power producers install solar power generation systems at locations distant from places of power demand and supply power to consumers through transmission lines.
At Hanshin Koshien Stadium, we achieved virtually 100% renewable energy utilization through a combination of the electricity generated at DREAM Solar Hyogo Aioi Wakasano, a 700 kW solar power plant we developed and now operate, and the Renewable Energy Eco Plan.*
This future-oriented project is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 3,000 tons per year.

1. * A CO2-free electricity rate option provided by Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. added with the environmental value of the non-fossil certificate for electricity derived from renewable energy.

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Using digital technology to open the way to the future of construction Topcon Yamagata

Today, the construction industry faces many social challenges, including the labor shortage, the need to increase productivity, and the need to reduce environmental impact. The industrialization of construction is our corporate mission, and we are working with Topcon Corporation on initiatives to realize advanced construction processes to achieve digital construction, a DX revolution at construction sites.
We used BIM in each process of the construction of the Topcon Optonexus Co., Ltd. plant that began in December 2019, and we used Topcon’s digital measuring equipment and ICT-based automated construction technologies. Topcon Optonexus Co., Ltd. is a manufacturing subsidiary of Topcon Corporation. Furthermore, in the construction of the Topcon Yamagata plant, the two companies built on their previous initiatives by extending the use of BIM to the construction phase. It had previously been limited to the design phase. This improved the productivity of on-site layout work by 20%, demonstrating the effectiveness of the DX of construction sites. The companies are also working to increase the efficiency of production sites, including through Topcon’s use of BIM data to set routes for uncrewed delivery vehicles that handle transport operations inside buildings.

Future with Wood — Wooden and Wood-Based Architecture

A large comfortable wooden space enabling people to relax Kawamura Electric Inc. Tsukuba Plant Dining Hall

As the world seeks to achieve carbon neutrality, initiatives that balance the reduction of environmental impact with human comfort are becoming increasingly important in the field of architecture.
Through the Future with Wood initiative promoting wooden and wood-based architecture, Daiwa House Industry is leveraging the value of wood in the field of architecture to contribute to the realization of a sustainable society.
At Forest Dining, the dining hall in Kawamura Electric Inc.’s Tsukuba Plant, the landscape of the windbreak grove that has long protected the plant was incorporated into the building, creating a large space with a hybrid wood and reinforced concrete structure.
Surrounded by the texture and scent of wood, the dining hall is a place where employees can be refreshed both physically and mentally, and where people communicate naturally.
With its wooden and wood-based construction, the CO2 emissions during the construction of the building were approximately 22% less than those of a steel-frame structure.
By promoting the circulation of forest resources while helping to enhance well-being and create corporate value, this project is an embodiment of the Future with Wood concept.