Steve McCann Key points: • Increasing population growth in major cities will require urban regeneration and supporting investment into transport infrastructure. • Key challenges including an ageing, growing population, efficient utility and transport costs and climate change see a largely non-discretionary case for change. • The community will support major changes, like urban densification and major motorway and metro rail projects – provided the case for investment is clear and well made.
Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Lendlease Lendlease has a proud track record of creating some of the best places around the world through urban regeneration, proudly partnering to deliver these outcomes in safety, sustainability, and health and wellbeing. The last two years have been quite good for us on the city-making front. Lendlease’s portfolio of major urban regeneration projects has grown by around $8 billion dollars, with new developments secured in Singapore, Malaysia and the United States. Lendlease was selected as the major developer for projects such as the London Olympic Village and the remarkable Barangaroo, and is responible for more than $40 billion worth of construction in New York, including the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. This recently led Federal Trade Minister Andrew Robb to declare that Lendlease is at the epicentre of delivering high-quality services, both in Australia and around the world. Lendlease has been at the forefront of both the social and the economic infrastructure sectors for more than 50 years. The organisation has partnered 38
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with governments to design and construct largescale bridges in Australia’s major cities, including the Anzac Bridge in Sydney, which enjoys its 20th anniversary this December, and the Story Bridge in Brisbane. Through our great forebears – Civil and Civic, and Baulderstone – Lendlease is proud to have delivered the Sydney Opera House. Beyond these, Lendlease also helped to deliver the Clem7 in Brisbane, and the Cross City Tunnel and M5 East Tunnel projects in Sydney. In delivering some of the nation’s most notable roads, not only does Lendlease aim to create the best places; we also work hard to connect them. Through an integrated model of investment, development and construction, Lendlease is in an enviable position to both work in, and learn from, some of the best cities across the world. Lendlease has delivered more than 350 healthcare projects around the world, including major public-private partnerships in the United Kingdom, as well as the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Bendigo Hospital in Victoria, and the Sunshine Coast University Hospital.
