Company type | Subsidiary |
---|---|
Industry | Construction |
Founded | 1951 |
Founder | Dick Dusseldorp |
Defunct | 1999 |
Successor | Bovis Lend Lease |
Headquarters | , Australia |
Area served | Australia New Zealand |
Parent | Lendlease |
Website | Lend Lease Projects |
Civil & Civic was an Australian construction company. Founded in 1951, it was acquired in 1961 by Lend Lease Corporation.
Civil & Civic was founded by Dick Dusseldorp in 1951 on behalf of Dutch building companies Bredero's Bouwbedrijf and The Royal Dutch Harbour Company as an Australian building contractor. [1] Its first contract was to supply and erect 200 prefabricated houses for the Snowy Mountains Authority which had been established by William Hudson, engineer of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. [2]
Hudson's greatest obstacle in the completion of the scheme was the provision of labour and materials. Without a resolution to these two problems the realisation of the project was doubtful. But 31-year-old Dutch immigrant Dick Dusseldorp conceived a plan to prefabricate frames for worker housing in Finland, plumbing in England, ship materials via Cooma and recruit labour from the Netherlands to erect the homes. Dusseldorp established Civil & Civic to take on and manage the multimillion-dollar contract. [2]
Civil & Civic went on to become Australia's leading provider of project management services in the construction industry, delivering a number of landmark projects including Stage I of the Sydney Opera House, [3] Australia's first all concrete skyscraper ( Caltex House), [4] and the world's first high-rise strata title apartment building ( Blues Point Tower). [5]
In 1961 Civil & Civic was acquired by Lend Lease Corporation, but the company continued to trade under the Civil & Civic name, also constructing the world's tallest lightweight concrete construction building ( Australia Square), and the tallest building in the world outside North America ( MLC Centre) at the time of completion. [6]
In July 1999 Civil & Civic was rebranded Lend Lease Projects. After Lend Lease Corporation acquired Bovis from P&O in October 1999, the former Civil & Civic business merged with the former Bovis business to form Bovis Lend Lease. [7] [6] [8]