2023年、あけましておめでとうございます。
社会の情報交流ダイナミズムが感染症によって停滞を余儀なくされて丸３年。
人生でこういう時間を過ごすことになるとはまったく予期していませんでしたが、多くのみなさんもそういう気持ちが強いだろうと思います。年賀状代わりにWEB＆SNS「つながり」でのご挨拶。
写真は大阪四天王寺の池のカメさん軍団と、北海道鶴居村のツルさんたち。
わたしは高断熱高気密・住宅性能革新の発祥地、北海道と寒冷地域・東北で住宅メディアを発信し続けてきています。視点はユーザーの「いい家が欲しい」という素朴な願い。北海道という積雪寒冷地が基盤なので当然、あたたかくいごこちのいい家の追究が原点。明治開拓期以来、北海道ではこの大テーマに挑戦する家づくりが大前提。開拓使という明治の先人たちが作った「期限付き中央官庁」の使命はまさに寒冷気候の中で人びとの暮らしを守っていくこと。この使命感から、後継の地方自治体・北海道も旺盛に追究してきました。
それこそ「官学民」の総力を挙げての取り組み。北欧・北米の高断熱技術からそのコアを導入し、日本の木造工法を進化させた。その最前線でいま「北方型住宅ZERO」というあらたな目標設定が行われました。わたし自身もその制度設計諮問会議に参加させていただき、ユーザー視点での意見も発言させていただいてきました。
幸いにして基本的な制度骨格も整い、この１月には社会的なアナウンス拡散が開始される予定。
ゼロエネルギーという社会の大目標に向かって寒冷地・北海道はあらたな挑戦を開始します。
一方で関東以南地域でも、高断熱高気密の住文化は大きく進化を見せています。全国各地の優良な作り手はそれぞれの地域の中で「地域一番店」的な位置を獲得するようになってきた。住宅における省エネ技術はいまやユーザーがもっとも肝要とみなす基礎技術といえるでしょう。
こういった趨勢を踏まえReplanではさらにユーザーの住情報接触の革新を企画しています。住宅情報は雑誌を基盤としつつ、WEBでの情報交流が基本になってきています。わたしどもの事業でもWEB領域での発信が中核になってきています。この状況に革新的に対応する基盤開発を経産省の「事業再構築」補助事業として推進してきました。開発段階を終了し、2023年度からは事業化フェーズにいよいよ発進。
ブログでは最近は「歴史ネタ」が増加傾向ではありますが（笑）、この新事業が開発段階であって守秘的な局面であったこともそのひとつの要素でした。現実に進めている事業内容をオープンにはしにくいというプレッシャーもあった次第。
住環境がより一層健康長寿社会の基盤技術となって行くことを願い、よりわかりやすい情報発信に努めていきたいと思いますので、よろしくお願いします。
みなさんの本年のご多幸を祈念いたします。
English version⬇
2023 Turtles and Cranes Wish for Health and Longevity Happy New Year!
The "New Year's greeting card" web site. We are pursuing the evolution of housing information itself and will start commercialization this year. We are now pursuing the evolution of housing information itself and will start commercialization this year.
Happy New Year 2023!
It has been three full years since the information exchange dynamism of our society was forced to stagnate by an infectious disease.
I never expected to spend this kind of time in my life, and I am sure many of you feel the same way. Instead of New Year's greeting cards, I greet you through the social networking service "Tsunagari.
The photo shows a group of turtles at a pond in Shitennoji, Osaka, and cranes in Tsurui Village, Hokkaido.
I have been providing housing media in Hokkaido, the birthplace of high thermal insulation, high airtightness, and housing performance innovation, as well as in the cold region of Tohoku. My perspective is based on the user's simple wish for a good house. Since Hokkaido is a snowy and cold region, the pursuit of warm and comfortable homes is a natural starting point. Since the Meiji pioneering period, the basic premise of house building in Hokkaido has been to create houses that challenge this major theme. The mission of the Kaitakushi, the "central government agency with a fixed term" created by our Meiji predecessors, was to protect people's lives in the cold climate. With this sense of mission, the succeeding local government, Hokkaido, has also been vigorously pursuing this mission.
This is exactly what the "government, academia, and the private sector" have been working on. The core of the highly insulating technology from Northern Europe and North America was introduced to evolve the Japanese wooden construction method. At the forefront of this effort, a new goal, "Northern-style housing ZERO," has now been set. I myself have participated in the System Design Advisory Council and have been able to voice my opinions from the user's point of view.
Fortunately, the basic framework of the system is in place, and social announcements are scheduled to begin in January.
Hokkaido, a cold region of Japan, will begin a new challenge toward the great social goal of "zero energy.
Meanwhile, in the Kanto region and southward, the culture of highly insulated and airtight housing is also making great strides. Excellent builders from all over the country have come to acquire the position of "local No.1 store" in their respective regions. Energy-saving technology in housing is now considered the most important basic technology by users.
In light of these trends, Replan is planning further innovations in the way users come into contact with housing information. While magazines are the foundation of housing information, information exchange on the Internet is becoming the basic method of information exchange. The web has become the core of our business as well. We have been promoting the development of an innovative infrastructure to respond to this situation as a subsidized project for "business restructuring" by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). We have completed the development phase and will finally launch the commercialization phase in FY2023.
One of the factors behind this was that this new project was in the development phase, which is a confidential phase. There was also pressure to keep the details of the project in the open.
I hope that the living environment will become a fundamental technology for a healthier and longer-lived society, and I will make every effort to provide information that is easier to understand.
I wish you all a happy new year.
