Nippon Koei Research Centre in Tsukuba
According to my boss, Fujitaka, every newbie at Nippon Koei must make a trip to their Research Centre in Tsukuba (west of Tokyo... also called Tsukuba Science City). So yesterday, Fujitaka
and I made a trip by train down to the centre. Supposedly, Nippon-Koei is the only civil engineering consulting in Japan that has such a large research centre.
It was this GIGANTIC building with a HUMONOUS testing site around it. Basically the building where I work at is just the office/client consulting area in downtown Tokyo. But here, in the research centre, is where all the technical stuff takes place. They do stuff such as water dam scale modelling and testing , sewage system modelling and testing, water resources/soil quality engineering testing, etc... It was quite neat. So I spent the day listening to presentations and taking a tour of the facilities. I was really impressed.
I would go into the technical details about my trip but that would just bore everyone reading this.
Scale model of a dam to be built in Kagawa prefecture
Sewage system modelling
Model of a River "Fish-way". To be built to guide fish traffic
Soil mechanics laboratory
Giant centrifuge (like the one astronauts use) used here to model the forces that would be present on a slope. Overall its used for landslide prevention engineering.
and I made a trip by train down to the centre. Supposedly, Nippon-Koei is the only civil engineering consulting in Japan that has such a large research centre.
It was this GIGANTIC building with a HUMONOUS testing site around it. Basically the building where I work at is just the office/client consulting area in downtown Tokyo. But here, in the research centre, is where all the technical stuff takes place. They do stuff such as water dam scale modelling and testing , sewage system modelling and testing, water resources/soil quality engineering testing, etc... It was quite neat. So I spent the day listening to presentations and taking a tour of the facilities. I was really impressed.
I would go into the technical details about my trip but that would just bore everyone reading this.
Scale model of a dam to be built in Kagawa prefecture
Sewage system modelling
Model of a River "Fish-way". To be built to guide fish traffic
Soil mechanics laboratory
Giant centrifuge (like the one astronauts use) used here to model the forces that would be present on a slope. Overall its used for landslide prevention engineering.
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