Abstract
Decreasing amount of investment in construction industry, reconsideration of many public projects, no more dams declaration, privatizing Japan Highway, people's eyes toward the construction industry is now getting to be cool and the people are suspicions of the industry. In this situation, civil engineers in Japan do not give appropriate answers to the people. Civil engineers in this country have been spending lots of affords in the area of development of construction technologies. Actually they have quite advanced technologies for design and construction. However they are very weak in the construction management. As a matter of fact, many civil engineers in this country do not aware that the construction management is one of essential technologies. This must be the reason why they do not make clear answers to the people's suspicions. It is quite important to educate civil engineers in the area of management. This study is regarding the matters of how to recognize construction management and how to build up appropriate education programs for construction management in the country.
