Trade Name
Nittobo Acoustic Engineering Co., Ltd.
Locations
- Tokyo Head Office
- BR Ryogoku 2 Building 1-21-10 Midori Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130-0021, Japan
- TEL: +81-3-3634-7567 (Business Development Div./R&D Div.)
- FAX: +81-3-3634-5327
- Acoustic Design & Construction Div. (Osaka Branch)
- Level5 Honmachi-bashi YK Building 2-16 Honmachi-bashi Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 540-0029, Japan
- TEL: +81-6-4790-7805
- FAX: +81-6-6943-5615
- Osaka Branch (Sakai Office)
- 3003-6 Kanaoka-cho Kita-ku Sakai-shi, Osaka 591-8022, Japan
- TEL: +81-72-256-6811
- FAX: +81-72-256-6812
- Nagoya Branch
- Level8 Rix 2 Building, 3-17-28 Marunouchi Naka-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi 460-0002, Japan
- TEL: +81-52-602-4682
- FAX: +81-52-602-4683
- Acoustic Laboratory
- 349-10 Sanno-cho Inage-ku Chiba-shi, Chiba 263-0002, Japan
- TEL & FAX: +81-43-424-1810
- Acoustic Laboratory (Annex)
- 42-1 Roppo-cho Inage-ku Chiba-shi, Chiba 263-0004, Japan
- TEL & FAX: +81-43-306-9490
Date of Establishment
April 17, 1974
Industry Registration
- Registered measuring certification enterprise for sound pressure levels No.691
- Registered measuring certification enterprise for vibration acceleration levels No.1174
- First class registered architectural office, Tokyo governor registration No.11534
- Authorization for construction work, MLTI authorization (Spec.20) No.22796
Business Purpose
- (1)Design and supervision of architectural and acoustic work
- (2)Representation for various procedures related to architectural and acoustic work
- (3)Undertaking contracts for architectural and acoustic work
- (4)Marketing materials related to architectural and acoustic work
- (5)Manufacturing and marketing acoustic facilities and systems
- (6)Renting and managing acoustic facilities and systems
- (7)All other work incidental to the above items
Capital
30 million yen
Annual Sales
3.9 Billion yen (fiscal 2007)
Executives
- Representative Director: Hidehiro Shizunaga
- Managing Director: Shinji Ohashi
- Director: Tadayuki Yamanashi
- Director: Toyoshi Nishizaka (Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd.)
- Director: Katsuhiko Hiyama (Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd.)
- Auditor: Yo Usami (Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd.)
Number of Employees
84 employees (April 1, 2008)
Clients
Various government and municipal offices, public corporations, hospitals, schools, research organizations, and businesses involved in a wide range of industries, including steel, metals, construction, textiles, chemicals, electronics, automobiles, machinery, broadcasting, music, and other industries.
Main Banks
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
Mizuho Corporate Bank
Landmarks
- April 1953:
- Acoustic construction operations established in Rock Wool Division of Construction Materials Department of Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd.
- April 1959:
- Independently established as Acoustic Construction Division of Construction Materials Department of Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd.
- January 1961:
- Acoustic design office established in Construction Materials Department of Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd. with design work to be carried out by Acoustic Construction Division
- March 1972:
- Acoustic design office reorganized into corporate organization under the name of Nichion Co., Ltd. with 5 million yen in capital
- April 1974:
- Capital of Nichion Co., Ltd. increased to 15 million yen, renamed under the trade name Nittobo Acoustic Engineering Co., Ltd. and continuing with the commercial rights of the Construction Materials Department of Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd.
- August 1984:
- Installed acoustic laboratory
- April 1990:
- Installed acoustic experiment facilities (anechoic room)
- April 1991:
- Section of administration (general affairs and construction) relocated to new office
- April 1992:
- Installed acoustic simulation room
- July 1992:
- Established Osaka Branch
- September 1998:
- Established Osaka Branch (Technical Dept)
- June 1999:
- Increase capital to 30 million yen
- November 2003:
- Acquired ISO 9001,14001 certification (Technical Dept.)
- June 2005:
- Installed Acoustic R&D
- June 2007:
- Installed Acoustic R&D(Annex)
- October 2008:
- Established Nagoya Branch
Commercial Products
- Products
(1)Planning and Construction
Recording studio
Television and radio broadcast station
Hall and theater
Cinema(Multiplex Theater)
Acoustic laboratory(anechoic room, reverberation room)
Audio room and listening room
Live Music Club and music practice room
(2)System products
Sound Source Analysis System: Noise Vision
Microphone Traverse System: MT Series
Aircraft Noise Monitoring System: DL Series
Acoustic Materials Evaluation System
Listening Testing System: Shinji
OrthoStereophonic System: OSS
Sound Field Simulation System
Impulse Response Measurement System: AEIRM
High-quality Monitoring Speaker System: NES Series - Consulting
(1)Acoustic Work
Panning
Acoustic design
Project drawing, Shop drawing, Details
Construction Control
(2)Sound and Vibration Countermeasures
Planning for sound and vibration isolation
Silencer design
(3)Acoustic Surveys and Measurements
Environmental surveys (noise and vibration)
Estimation of sound performance (transmission loss and floor impact sound)
Sound field measurement (reverberation time and impulse response)
Sound source analysis (multi-channel measurements and acoustical holography)
Measuring certification enterprise
(4)Acoustical Experiments and Research
Scale model and full-scale experiment
Anechoic room experiment
Entrusted research
(5)Acoustic Simulation
Noise prediction (factory noise, traffic noise, store noise, aircraft noise)
Acoustics simulation (hall and studio)
Visualization and auralization
(6)System Development
Hardware
Software
Participating Groups
- Acoustic Society of Japan
- Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan
- Japan Post Production Association
- Japan Association of Professional Recording Studios
- Japan Environmental Measurement & Chemical Analysis Association
- Acoustical Materials Association of Japan
- Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Japan Automobile Federation (Kanto Headquarters)
- Institute of Noise Control Engineering/Japan)
- Audio Engineering Society, Japan Section
- Environmental Acoustic Research Institute
Awards
- 1997
- Good Design Award (Facilities Division) Fun House Sapporo Studio
- 1998
- National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan (Technology Division) Vertically inclined cyclorama with enhanced acoustics (Fuji Television)
- 1999
- The Acoustical Society of Japan's 7th Technological Development Prize, "Listen" Technical Listening Training System, CD-ROM Shinji Personal Edition
- 2004
- The Acoustical Society of Japan's 12th Technological Prize, Sound Source Analysis System: Noise Vision
- 2004
- 17th Nikkei New Office Prize (Progress Prize) Headquarter and studios of J-Wave, Inc.