West Nippon Expressway Company Ltd. (NEXCO-West) has been founded by privatization of the former Japan Highway Public Corporation (JH). Since the establishment of JH in 1956, the company has been contributing to development of Japan’s highway network for more than half-a-century. The company also has technologies, knowledge and experience of expressway management that have been accumulated during the period of more than 40 years since the opening of the Meishin Expressway. The company now carries out inspections and maintenance based on this knowledge and technologies, ensuring customers safe and reliable expressway environment.

NEXCO-West also provides reliable road services by exchanging information between each stage from construction to operation. We believe that the technological capabilities obtained from our experience can also contribute to the road development and maintenance around the world. 

While the road infrastructures constructed in the era of rapid economic growth are deteriorating every year, appropriate maintenance planning and effective use of road infrastructure are becoming more and more important. NEXCO-West will provide solutions to our customers facing these kinds of issues.

 

 

NEXCO-West’s Engineering Support Systems

NEXCO-West has a powerful engineering support system by collaborating with the Nippon Expressway Research Institute Co., Ltd, which has a great history of R&D from various results by expressway researches and engineering theoretical background. 

Their local offices are strongly supported in their quality management through Regional Engineering Offices, which are responsible for quality management during construction using the past data on construction materials with different characteristics for each region.

In addition, NEXCO-West group companies have also established another support system for inspection, maintenance, design and engineering in regional areas.

 

 

NEXCO-West’s Goal

We contribute to road network development around the world with our knowledge and experience of 13,000 employees. 

NEXCO-West uses the group’s know-how, technologies and human resources related to construction, maintenance and operation of expressways to contribute to the road development around the world.

• Great stocks of experience from over half-a-century of construction and operation of expressways
• Road infrastructure management throughout the whole stage, from project planning to construction, maintenance and operation
• High quality construction management even under severe environmental and geographical conditions obtained through experiences in Japan
• Construction of road infrastructure taking consideration of life cycle costs by utilizing the knowledge and experience during maintenance and operation period
• Monitoring the road conditions constantly and provides information to customers using IT technologies to contribute to the prompt response during traffic accident or fire
• Increasing efficiency of operations through development of new technologies such as concrete bridge inspections using infrared cameras and structural surveys using high-definition cameras
• Consulting the management of rest facilities that increase customer satisfaction
• Effective utilization of expressway spaces to contribute to the regional development