Softbank Team Japan are expected to break ground at the site of their Bermuda base next month.

Sir Russell Coutts, the America’s Cup Event Authority chief executive, confirmed that the challenger for the 35th America’s Cup will construct their base along the South Basin in Dockyard where Artemis Racing were temporarily based.

“They [Team Japan] are targeting to have that [base] completed by the end of the year, and be fully operational by the beginning of next year,” Coutts said. “So they are going to start sailing their AC45 sports boat in Bermuda from early 2016 onwards.”

Dean Barker, the Team Japan chief executive and skipper, is optimistic that the project will be completed on time.

“There’s a lot of work to do in the short-term, but we are pretty happy that we are going to be up and running pretty soon,” Barker, who won the 30th America’s Cup with Team New Zealand in 2000, said.

“We are in the process of getting the base in Dockyard designed, and up and running, and then we can have our testing-training boat that we can sail in January.”

Team Japan were the latest team to enter America’s Cup in April.

“We have a lot of work to do, we have to put a full team together and get operational in Bermuda,” Barker said. “These other teams have been really busy since the Cup finished in 2013. A lot of these guys just keep going.

“We have a lot of ground to make up but we have a very good structure and the ability to do it.”

Team Japan’s sailors competed together for the first time at last month’s America’s Cup World Series in Portsmouth.

“This signalled the start of our campaign and I think we can come away with a huge list of things we can do better and improve on,” Barker said.

“It was encouraging for us that we were able to mix it up at times, but we just made too many mistakes.

“But, we will be a lot better prepared by the time we get to Gothenburg [the next round of the World Series from August 27 to 30] and hopefully we can put together a better result there.”