Project to train construction site aces = multi-skilled workers begins! Monolith Group has started a project to develop multi-skilled craftsmen, who are the aces of the construction site! and plastering, etc., and opened it up to Yuuki Sogyo.

Monolith Group (Monolith Corporation: Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture; President: Tsuyoshi Kawamura / Kawamura Kogyo: Machida City, Tokyo; President: Atsushi Kawamura), which provides nationwide services in the fields of soil, plastering, concrete floor polishing and concrete polishing with high-quality construction and a multi-skilled workforce. ) has launched the "Multi-skilled Worker Training Project" to fully release its know-how in the form of data to Tohoku-based Yuuki Sogyo (Kaminoyama City, Yamagata Prefecture; Representative Director: Shintaro Yuki).

From Tohoku to Hokkaido, Yuuki Sogyo is looking ahead, where serious players with real skills will build a new common sense of the construction industry. *Multi-skilled workers: Aces in the field with multiple advanced specialties

Young craftsmen in training

■The essence of the "labor shortage" facing the construction industry is

It is not that there are no people; there are just no people to do cheap work!

Ostensibly, all the words flying around are about the accelerating labor shortage due to the declining birthrate and aging population, but the essence of the labor shortage is not the lack of people, but the problem is that there are structurally few decent job sites = a layered subcontractor structure → cheap work is what reaches the craftspeople.

■It is the craftsmen who hold the construction industry's feet to the fire.

The current situation in the construction industry is that there are multiple layers of subcontracting until the work reaches the craftsmen. In today's construction industry, where the structure of prime contractor, first-tier, second-tier, and third-tier subcontractors and intermediary margins are too high, the amount of money that reaches the craftsmen at their feet is low, and this will not stop young people from leaving the construction industry.

How to become the construction industry of choice for young people

First of all, we must cut costs in the form of intermediary margins, and the only way to do this is to reform the structure of the multi-layered subcontracting industry. Yuuki Sogyo and the Monolith Group are proposing a lump-sum construction method by cultivating multi-skilled workers through collaboration. However, even if the middleman is eliminated through batch construction, it is the organization that can provide high quality that will be selected for high unit prices. To make the construction industry a place where young people want to work, we will open up all of the Monolith Group's know-how and take on the challenge of reform together with Yuki Sogyo.

■Training of multi-skilled workers by aces and high performers in the field

It is not enough to be a plasterer and do only plastering, or a painter and do only painting. The challenge of training multi-skilled workers who are not simply "do-it-alls" or "handymen" but have multiple advanced specialties is being taken up by Nobuo Nakamatsu (Director, Technical Development Department) of Monolith Corporation and Atsushi Kawamura (Representative Director, Registered Key Skills Engineer) of Kawamura Kogyo Co.

Registered key technicians: technicians who have the ability to manage their skills and techniques and are responsible for construction on site (from the Construction Green File).

Data on "my experience" instead of "my experience

In developing multi-skilled personnel who can handle all types of work associated with concrete construction, from large plastering properties (condominiums, hospitals, schools, etc.) to large distribution warehouses, stores, and tenants to renovation work, it is important to be able to quantify and databasize the experience and skills of craftsmen. Technology should not be based solely on craftsmen's intuition and senses. It is to visualize "sensory craftsmanship."

■Multi-skilled Worker Revolution

We cannot solve the true labor shortage unless we create an era in which craftspeople who know the job site inside out and experts in the field are at the price negotiation table. Currently, we are making a stopgap measure with foreign personnel, and some think of them as term contract workers, but there is a great possibility that construction experts will emerge from among them and lead the organization. Regardless of nationality or age, the combined skills of the multi-skilled workers who support the footwork on site will be persuasive in unit price negotiations, and the skills of these data-driven craftsmen will be a weapon in unit price negotiations.

Craftsmen listening intently to President Kawamura

Converting craftsmen's intuition into data

Nakamatsu and Kawamura participating in machine training in Belgium

Kawamura Kogyo website Column about Monolith Group x Yuuki Sogyo

Changing the construction industry from Tohoku - "Multi-skilled Worker Revolution" by Yuuki Sogyo and Monolith Group

https://kawamura-1.co.jp/2025/06/16/%e6%9d%b1%e5%8c%97%e3%81%8b%e3%82%89%e5%bb%ba%e8%a8%ad%e6%a5%ad%e7%95%8c%e3%81%ae%e5%b8%b8%e8% ad%98%e3%82%92%e5%a4%89%e3%81%88%e3%82%8b%ef%bc%8d%ef%bc%8d%e3%82%86%e3%81%86%e3%81%8d%e7%b7%8f%e6%a5%ad/

Monolith Group Initiatives

Monolith Group will continue to collaborate with companies in all areas of Japan, Hokuriku area, Tokai-Chubu area, Kinki area, Chugoku-Shikoku area, Kyushu-Okinawa area, and other regions.

However, Monolith Group's idea of collaboration does not end merely with training sessions that teach Monolith Group's know-how, or with training sessions using models or temporary venues. It is an initiative that aims to collaborate with companies that have provided and nurtured know-how, and then to coexist and co-prosper in the field of practice.

When collaborating with a company that is considering investing in its own future, we will work together to develop a plan that is reasonable for each company, taking into account factors such as current company size and financial situation.

Please contact us if you are interested in training and collaborating in the development of multi-skilled workers.

Monolith Corporation

https://monolith-c.co.jp/

Kawamura Kogyo Co.

https://kawamura-1.co.jp/