Announcement of opening ceremony of the Sendai Nagamachi Future Co-Creation Center and Contract Agreement on Disaster Relief by Industry, Academia and Government
Fukuda and Partners Co., Ltd. (Head Office: 7-2, Koamicho, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Preside and CEO Tetsuya Fukuda) held an opening ceremony for the Sendai Nagamachi Future Co-creation Center, a facility with a concept of “convertible building” that changes functions in conventional times and in an disaster emergency, on April 6, 2022.
Also at the opening ceremony, Fukuda and Partners concluded an agreement on disaster prevention and disaster relief in this region with four parties, including Sendai City, Tohoku University Institute of Disaster Science and International Research, and Maruwa Unyu Kikan Co., Ltd.
Regarding the Sendai Nagamachi Future Co-creation Center
Since its foundation, Fukuda and Partners has supported logistics facilities, which are life infrastructure, by providing construction and real estate co-sourcing services. When the Great East Japan Earthquake struck in 2011, Fukuda and Partners assisted restoring as many as 72 logistics centers.
The Sendai Nagamachi Future Co-Creation Center is a disaster-prevention type convertible building planned and developed by Fukuda and Partners based on the “experience” of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the “desire” of protecting and supporting the lives of local residents.
In conventional times, we will provide a variety of services as a suburban office building that contributes to a decarbonizing society through the procurement of 100% renewable electricity and the introduction of V2X systems for electric and hydrogen vehicles.
On the other hand, in case of an emergency, it will turn to a local disaster prevention facility. Based on the knowledge of joint research on corporate disaster prevention, regional disaster prevention, and BCP with the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, the electricity at the facility will last for three days with storage batteries and emergency generators, and furthermore, based on the agreement with Sendai City, we can accommodate locals as a facility that accepts people who have difficulty returning home.
Through the permanent co-creation of “industry, academia, and government” with the participation of tenant companies and local companies, we aim to continue to contribute to the realization of a sustainable society (SDGs).
[Overview of Facilities]
Owner: Fukuda and Partners Co., Ltd.
Facility Name: Sendai Nagamachi Future Co-Creation Center
Number of stories: Steel structure, 5-story building
Site Area: 1,426.67 ㎡
Total floor area: 2,864.73㎡
Facility description: office, day-care center, child-care facility, seminar space, and storage warehouse
Design Plan & Supervision: Fukuda and Partners, first class architectural office
Implementation Design & Construction: Hazama Ando Corporation
Electrical Equipment Work: Kinden Corporation
Environmental Facility: Enagia Inc.
[Industrial, academic, and government at the Sendai Nagamachi Future Co-creation Center]
1) Miyagi Prefecture’s Program to Support the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Emissions
2) Sendai City: “Hometown loan” utilization project (project leading to regional development)
3) Sendai City: Business to Utilize the “Subsidy System for Introduction of Renewable Energy, etc. for Private Disaster Prevention Base Facilities”
4) Sendai City: Planned to conclude “Agreement to support people with difficulty returning home at the time of disaster”
5) Sendai City + International Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University + Maruwa Unyu Kikan Co., Ltd. + Fukuda and Partners Co., Ltd.: Four-Party Agreement concluded
6) Elected in “Vibrant HABATAKU Small and Medium Enterprises 300 Company” by Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry SME Agency
[Opening Ceremony and Four-party Agreement]
1.Date and time Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 13:00-15:30
2.Location 2nd floor of the Sendai Nagamachi Future Co-Creation Center
(7-21, Koriyama 6-chome, Taihaku-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi)
3.Schedule
(1)Opening remarks
(2)Video presentation
(3)Owner Greeting Fukuda & Partners Co., Ltd., President and CEO Tetsuya Fukuda
(4)Greetings by Guests: Sendai City, Mayor Kori Kazuko
Maruwa Unyu Kikan Co., Ltd., President and CEO Masaru Wasami
(5)Tape cutting
(6)Closing
(7)Agreement Contract Ceremony
(8)Press interview
4.Outline of Agreement “Agreement on the Promotion of Corporate Disaster Prevention Using Sendai Nagamachi FC”
The Sendai Nagamachi Future Co-creation Center will be utilized to utilize the knowledge of disaster science and the technicals and experience of disaster prevention, disaster recovery and disaster recovery possessed by mutual of the four parties, and to cooperate with each other to contribute to the promotion of corporate disaster prevention and business continuity in the region, lessons learned from the earthquake disaster and other activities.
Contents of Four Party Collaboration
1) Promotion of corporate disaster prevention and business continuity in the region and promotion of disaster prevention education and human resources development using the Sendai Nagamachi Future Co-Creation Center
2) Cooperation in activities related to the provision of temporary places of stay and emergency relief in the event of a large-scale disaster at the center
3) Promoting the use of disaster prevention equipment at the center
4) Promotion of reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake based in the Center, and promotion of the utilization of lessons learned from and traditions of the Great East Japan Earthquake
5)Promoting Transportation of Relief Goods in the Event of a Disaster
6)In addition to the foregoing, knowledge of disaster science and sharing of disaster prevention, disaster recovery and disaster recovery technologies and experiences
7)Other matters necessary for the purpose and execution of this Agreement.
Access Map
6-7-21, Koriyama Taihaku-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi, Japan 980-0003
Tel: +81-22-304-5350 / Fax: +81-22-304-5351
◆3 minutes’ walk from “Taishido Station” on the JR Tohoku Line (*‟Sendai Station” → “Taishido Station” : 7 minutes by JR Tohoku Line)
◆5 minutes by car from Nagamachi IC (Sendai-Nanbu Road)