Research Trends and Results
Efforts to draft construction-related technical standards
Building Department Standards and Accreditation System Division Head FUKAI Atsuo
Senior Researcher INOUE Namihiko
Senior Researcher IWATA Yoshihiro
Researcher KABEYASAWA Toshikazu
Researcher YOKOTA Yoshihiro(Keywords) Architecture Technology standards
on February 22, 2013 to promote the construction of1, Architecturea large wooden building.
Technical standards to ensure safety in accordance with theContinuously, we plan to study the related technicalbuilding have been stipulated in the Building Standards Law.
standards for fire protection that takes into accountWe appropriately need to review thesethe experiment.
construction-related technical standards in accordancewith the development of research and technology and the4, Contact point
disaster.
At the contact point, we accept the proposal of theTherefore, as the research results conducted by National
review and maintenance of standards in terms ofInstitute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM)
technical standards, such as stand-alone provision ofand as the system to promote standardization (Ministry of
the Building Standards Law from the private sector,
Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Auxiliarygaining the cooperation of the Building Researchbusiness and Project to assist the search cost to businessInstitute (an independent corporation), and we also
entities that country to set research agenda selected by thehave studied from a technical standpoint at NILIM.
public) based on the results (In fiscal year 2012, "Building
In fiscal year 2013, we accept 10 new proposals, andConstruction Standards Committee (Tetsuo Kubo, Professor
review and technical standards, we also treatedEmeritus, University of Tokyo, Chairman)", in fiscal yearwith 33 out of the proposals which had been
2013, Building fire protection Standards Committee "(Tokyoaccepted in previous years (as of December) by the
University of Science Professor Makoto Tsujimotodecision to review of technical standards or theChairman) was staffed in NILIM),we established a system todecision not to be reviewed.
create a draft technical standards taking into account the(Reference website：General Administrative
opinions of external experts.
Information Center Building Foundation
In addition, we set up a "contact point" in cooperation with
http://www.icba.or.jp/cp/cp_top.html）
relevant organization for the advanced rationalization oftechnical standards, and we widely support the proposal of5, Future plansthe development and review of standards from the private
Being based on the movement of Panel on
sector. (Fig.1)
Infrastructure Development, we are scheduled toconsider the review of technical standards in
2, Building Construction Standards Committee
accordance with the progress of the investigation
Considering the damage to buildings in the Great Eastand research will continue.
Japan Earthquake, in fiscal year 2012, we created a draft oftechnical standards on the structure of the requirements
concerning the tsunami evacuation building.
In fiscal year 2013, based on the damage the earthquake,
we are continually advancing the discussions on measures ofthe falling of escalators and the ceiling dropping.
After the fourth committee was held on July 9, we
continue the investigation based on the feedback that has
been received, subjected to public comment on the draft
technical standards from the end of July to September 15.
3, Building Fire Protection Standards Committee
We held the first committee on October 10 and
deliberated the plans of subsequent experiments
and the criteria for the fire protection with regards
to the three-story wooden school referring to theresults of Full-scale fire experiment of three-story
wooden school (preliminary experiment) carried out

Fig.1 Examination system of construction-related
technical standards