Lend Lease Group

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Lend Lease Corporation Limited

Type	Public
Traded as	ASX: LLC
Industry	Real estate
Founded	1958 (Sydney)
Headquarters	Millers Point, New South Wales, Australia
Key people	David Crawford (Chairman) Steve McCann (CEO and Managing Director)
Products	Construction, project management, residential care
Employees	17,000 (2012)
Subsidiaries	List Lend Lease Investment Management Lend Lease Project Management & Construction Lend Lease Residential Development Lend Lease Communities Lend Lease Development Lend Lease Infrastructure Lend Lease Public Private Partnerships Lend Lease Apartment Lend Lease Venture Capital Lend Lease Retirement
Website	www.lendlease.com

Lend Lease Group (officially Lend Lease Corporation Limited) is a multinational property and infrastructure company headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

History

The Company was established by Dick Dusseldorp in 1958 to provide finance for building contracts being undertaken by Civil and Civic. In 1961 the Company acquired Civil and Civic from Bredero's Bouwbedrijf.

In 1999 the Company formed Actus Lend Lease with the acquisition of Actus Corporation's MILCON and technical service construction management business, and augmented this business with professionals from Lend Lease Design and Lend Lease Development. Also in 1999 the Company acquired Bovis from P&O, which now forms Lend Lease Project Management & Construction. Then in 2000 it bought AMRESCO's commercial mortgage business In 2001, Lend Lease acquired Delfin Property Group (now Lend Lease Communities) for $172 million. It went on to buy Crosby Homes (now Lend Lease Residential Development) for circa £240 million in 2005.

In 2005 the company moved its headquarters from Australia Square in Sydney to The Bond on Hickson Road.

In 2009, Lend Lease Corporation acquired Babcock and Brown Communities, rebranding the business as Lend Lease Primelife. At the time, this acquisition made Lend Lease Australia's largest provider of retirement villages.

In 2010, Lend Lease announced their first foray into the consumer market with Lend Lease Solar. The subsidiary was wound up in early 2011, with no explanation as to why the division had closed.

As of 17 Feb 2011 Lend Lease announced wider ranging changes to its group of brands. This announcement means the retirement of the Bovis, Delfin, Vivas, Catalyst and Primelife brands which will now referred to using the unified Lend Lease brand.

In late February 2011, Lend Lease acquired DASCO in order to position itself to take advantage of the impending Obama administration Health sector boom. The company was immediately rebranded as Lend Lease DASCO, and operates independently of the Lend Lease Americas business.

In March 2011, Lend Lease completed the acquisition of Valemus Group (previously known as Bilfinger Berger Australia) from Bilfinger Berger Group, subsidiaries of Valemus include: Abigroup, Baulderstone and Conneq (formerly Bilfinger Berger Services). The Valemus brand was retired and replaced with Lend Lease in 2011.

Operations

The company operates in more than 40 countries around the world. In all of these, the Lend Lease Project Management & Construction division constructs and manages large building projects. The company runs additional businesses in certain markets, including apartment development, greenfield residential development, investment management of unlisted property funds, property management, Real Estate sales and leasing, Public Private Partnerships, Infrastructure Development and Venture Capital investment in innovative technologies.

Americas

• Lend Lease Investment Management is the largest developer of public-private defence housing in the United States. The company also owns retail assets throughout the US.

• Lend Lease Project Management & Construction (previously Bovis Lend Lease) was the major contractor for the Ground Zero Memorial in New York, in addition to a number of other major public buildings throughout the US.

• Lend Lease Dasco is a United States leader in the development, financing, leasing and management of medical office buildings and outpatient facilities. Lend Lease specialised exclusively in the development of medical real estate for more than 23 years, has developed more than 3.8 million square feet, acquired 1.5 million square feet and currently manages more than 2.0 million square feet of medical office space.

Asia

• Lend Lease Project Management & Construction (previously Bovis Lend Lease) constructs significant projects for Lend Lease's Investment Management Business, and Lend Lease's Development Business. Post Construction, Lend Lease's Retail Business manage the day-to-day operations of retail assets. In Asia, Lend Lease operations throughout Singapore, Malaysia, China, Japan & Taiwan. Projects and assets include the construction of the Petronas Towers.

Australia

• Lend Lease Development - Concentrates on large scale urban regeneration in key areas. Currently, the group has secured significant urban regeneration projects in Sydney at Barangaroo South, in Melbourne at Docklands, Victoria, in Brisbane at the RNA Showgrounds - The Green, and around Adelaide's Adelaide Oval.

• Lend Lease Communities (previously Delfin Lend Lease) falls within Lend Lease Development, and is Australia's largest developer of Master Planned Communities. One of Lend Lease's more controversial Communities projects is their development for housing and industry of the former Australian Defense Industries (ADI) land at St Marys (Ropes Crossing & Jordan Springs) in Western Sydney. Their ADI property is the largest intact area of the biodiverse and endangered plant community, the "Cumberland Plain Woodland". Some of the group's major Communities projects include Springfield Lakes, Queensland, Caroline Springs, Victoria, Alkimos, Western Australia and Mawson Lakes, South Australia

• Lend Lease Project Management & Construction (previously Bovis Lend Lease) operates across Australia both for internal Lend Lease businesses and external clients. The Project Management & Construction Business was previously known as Civil & Civic and was successful in constructing Australia's first 5 star as built (The Bond, Sydney - Lend Lease's Global Headquarters) and 6 star as built (The Gauge Melbourne) commercial buildings. The Project Management & Construction Business has undertaken a range of significant and iconic buildings including Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Royal Children's Hospital, Gold Coast University Hospital, ANZ Centre, Aurora Tower (Brisbane), Aurora Place (Sydney) & Sunshine Plaza (Sunshine Coast).

• Lend Lease Retirement (previously Retirement by Design and Primelife) operates Retirement Living, Serviced Apartments and Aged Care living options across the country. In addition, Lend Lease's Retirement Business is Australia's largest retirement communities developer.

• Lend Lease Investment Management owns and operates built form investments on behalf of the group and various unlisted fund investors. The business manages a number of major retain centre including Cairns Central, Sunshine Plaza, Lakeside Joondalup, Mid City Centre, and Greensborough Plaza. The Group also manages investment portfolios which include part of the Central Plaza Complex in Brisbane, and other a-grade office, retail, industrial and community development sites around the country.

• Lend Lease Infrastructure (previously both Valemus and Bilfinger Berger Australia) is the second largest construction and engineering specialist business in Australia.

It is active in the civil engineering, building and property, mining and resources, telecommunications, infrastructure services, engineering services and environmental services industries.

Major projects undertaken by Lend Lease Infrastructure to date include:

• Sydney Opera House - completed in 1973
• Anzac Bridge – completed in 1995
• Graham Farmer Freeway - completed in 2000
• Kurilpa Bridge - completed in 2009
• Clem Jones Tunnel – completed in 2010
• Gateway Bridge Duplication – due to be completed in 2011

• Lend Lease Public Private Partnerships - utilises a stake in the investment vehicle Capella Capital. Lend Lease provides equity where appropriate for Capella capital projects, with Lend Lease being the preferred developer, builder, project manager, construction contractor on the investment.

Continental Europe and Middle East

• Lend Lease Project Management & Construction (previously Bovis Lend Lease) operates throughout the European Union and the Middle East on various property and infrastructure related construction projects. Lend Lease's projects in this region include the Torino 2006 winter games facility, Durrat al Bahrain, Warsaw Trade Tower, Prague Ruzyně Airport T2 & Sheremetyevo International Airport T3 Moscow.

United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland

• Lend Lease Investment Management operates and manages assets owned by Lend Lease managed property funds. These include shopping centres such as Bluewater, Touchwood Solihull and previously the Overgate Centre also operates a retail development investment business in the UK, the third largest in that market, and is a developer of retail properties in its own right. It also conducts many "public-private partnership" developments with the UK government, particularly concentrating on hospital and defence housing estate developments.

• Lend Lease Residential Development (previously Crosby Lend Lease) has been designing and constructing homes for over 80 years. The business now focuses primarily on inner city urban regeneration opportunities within the UK. Projects include i-land - Birmingham, Clarence Dock - Leeds, Hungate - York & Potato Wharf - Manchester.

• Lend Lease Project Management & Construction (previously Bovis Lend Lease) has significant history in the UK having originated in the 1850s as W C Bovis. The division constructed the 2012 London Olympic Games Village, London's Millenium Dome, The Curve Theatre, Leicester, Media City UK, Royal Festival Hall & BBC's Scotland Headquarters

See also

• Australian real estate investment trust
• Shopping property management firms

External links

• Lend Lease corporate site
• Primelife site