Architecture, Civil Engineering

Out of a deep respect and awe for nature comes our mission to create a beautiful and prosperous country and a sustainable society. We are trying to reduce damage caused by natural disasters through social infrastructure systems and innovations in engineering, while building safer cities and more sustainable societies. Inheriting the local culture and traditions cultivated by our predecessors, we contribute to the revitalization and development of cities and regions that fully take into account the unique values of the surrounding area. We are focusing on human resource development in the civil engineering and architecture fields, believing these will play a great role in the world economy by building the social foundations necessary for each generation to live with a sense of purpose.

 

[Civil engineering]

-Creating and protecting infrastructure from the perspective of Applied Computational Structural Mechanics, Environmental Vibration and Energy Engineering, and Hydraulic Engineering.

-Protecting life and property from natural disasters from the perspective of Hydraulic Engineering, Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Evaluation of Groundwater Environments, and Environmental Measurement and Control.

-Achieving sustainable cities from the perspective of transportation and urban planning.

-Aiming for the creation of ultra-long-lasting structures.

-Building a healthy society from the perspectives of Water Cycle Assessment and Environmental Management             

 

 

 

[Architecture]

-As living spaces expand and the difference between cities and neighborhoods becomes blurred, we will practice architectural design that integrates the specific site with the local community.

-Conducting various education and research through fieldwork both in Japan and overseas that incorporates the history, planning, and legal systems related to architecture and urban spaces.

-Developing urban energy systems and architecture as part of efforts to maintain and improve the global environment and create comfortable living spaces.

-CLT and structural design using wood-based materials with exceptional functionality in terms of warmth, fragrance, flexibility, humidity control, impact, and sound absorption (to be established).

 

 

Staff and Research Projects

（As of August. 27, 2024）

Research Areas	position	name	Theme
steel structural engineering laboratory	Professor	NISHIYAMA Satoshi	Development of modeling and analytical methods for reducing the risk of geohazard
	Professor	HIEJIMA Shinji	Study on wind and tidal current power generation
	Associate Professor	KIMOTO Kazushi	Application of vibration and wave propagation theories to the monitoring of civil infrastructures
	Associate Professor	AL　WASHALI　HAMOOD　AH	Structural design,  Seismic evaluation, and retrofit of structures.
Hydraulic Engineering	Associate Professor	YOSHIDA Keisuke	Study on prevention and mitigation of fluvial disasters
	Associate Professor	AKOH Ryosuke	Development of practical hydraulic model and numerical simulation for water disaster prevention
Geotechnical & Groundwater Enginerring	Professor	KOMATSU Mitsuru	Research on investigation of groundwater flow and preservation of geo-environment
	Associate Professor	Furukawa Zentaro	Geo-environmental improvement and Geodisaster prevention utilizing plants
Urban and transportation planning laboratory	Professor	HASHIMOTO Seiji	Urban Transportation planning for Sustainable society
	Associate Professor	UJIHARA Takehito	Urban and regional planning in an era of population decrease and environmental constraint
	Associate Professor	HIGUCHI Teruhisa	Study on technological histories of civil engineering
Concrete laboratory	Professor	AYANO Toshiki	Durability of concrete structures
	Associate Professor	FUJII Takashi	Development of environment conscious materials for construction works
Laboratory of water environment and sanitation	Professor	NAGARE Hideaki	Water treatment, resource recovery, water environment management
	Assistant Professor	HASHIGUCHI Ayumi	Water treatment, wastewater treatment, and removal of persistent organic pollutants in the water.
Architecture and Urban Spatial Planning	Associate Professor	HORI Hirofumi	Architecture and urban spatial planning, Architecture and urban design policies, Architecture and urban landscape, Area based management/Business improvement district
	Senior Assistant Professor	HASHIDA Ryohei	Architectural planning and design, Housing
Urban and Building Environmental Engineering	Professor	NARUMI Daisuke	Urban and building environment design, Urban energy system, Energy consumption behavior, Urban heat island
Architectural Design and Theory	Associate Professor	KAWANISHI Atsushi	・Research on sociality and public space in architecture ・Research on design methods and integration with the environment in architectural regeneration ・Research on the formation and planning methods of cross-sectional spaces in hospital architecture, and their utility

 

Environmental Management

In our daily lives, we all consume food and energy sourced from the natural environment, while generating large amounts of waste and carbon dioxide. The natural environment is formed by material circulation through the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. This continuous circulation of materials and energy is supported by natural ecosystem services. However, global environmental issues including climate change, loss of biodiversity, and pollution (such as plastic waste) have damaged the functioning of ecosystem services. In particular, the causal relationships of recent environmental problems are extremely complicated, and the effects are both international and trans-generational. We therefore need to explore the complex relationships between human activities and environmental problems to be able to develop a sustainable society. Through lectures and experiments on natural science, ecology and engineering, students in the Environmental Management course will acquire the comprehensive knowledge and skills necessary to design/develop urban and regional areas that coexist with the natural environment and to sustainably manage natural resources (e.g. water, farmland and ecosystems). In addition, some students will learn about local environmental problems and explore potential solutions by conducting research in Southeast Asia as part of their short-term study-abroad programs or graduation research. Let's contribute to SDGs in our course!

 

Research Areas	position	name	Theme
Applied Ecology	Professor	NAKATA Kazuyoshi	Ecology and conservation of freshwater animals
	Assistant Professor	KATSUHARA Koki	Creation and maintenance of plant diversity
Environmental Biogeochemistry	Professor	MAEDA Morihiro	Soil and water quality management in agro-ecosystems
Environmental Soil Conservation	Professor	MORI Yasushi	Conservation and restoration of soil environment
Envioronmental Hydrology	Professor	CHIKAMORI Hidetaka	Future prediction of change in basinwide circulation of water
	Associate Professor	KUDO Ryoji	Hydrological analysis of catchment responses to environmental changes
Water Resources Management	Professor	MOROIZUMI Toshitsugu	Movement of water, heat, and chemicals in soil-atmosphere continuum
	Associate Professor	SOMURA Hiroaki	Study on efficient use of water resources by appropriate irrigation management
Design and Management of Environmental Infrastructures	Professor	NISHIMURA Shin-ichi	Prediction and risk evaluation in geotechnical problems
	Associate Professor	SHIBATA Toshifumi	Analysis of nonlinear soil-structure interaction problems
Material Cycles and Waste Mangement	Professor	FUJIWARA Takeshi	Research on development of solid waste management towards sound material-cycle society
	Assitant Professor	HABUER	Study on material flow and environmental and resource impact analysis for strategic waste management
Science for Sound Material-Cycle Society System	Associate Professor	MATSUI Yasuhiro	Research on system analysis for waste management
Environmental Data Science	Associate Professor	TSUJIMOTO Kumiko	Study on soil-plant-atmosphere interaction through integrating ground observation,satellite observation, and numerical models
Field Data Analysis	Professor	MORITA Hidenori	Study on rural environment using terrestrial information processing
	Professor	KUKI Yasuaki	Establishment of comprehensive rural planning theory in community and municipality levels