Lend Lease Infrastructure

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Lend Lease Infrastructure
(trading as Lend Lease)
Strategic Business Unit
Traded as ASX:VLM Now ASX:LLC
Industry Construction, Civil engineering
Founded2004
Headquarters Sydney, Australia
Key people
Nick Greiner, Chairman Peter Brecht CEO
Revenuesee Lend Lease Group
Number of employees
20,000 (2011) [1]
Parent Lend Lease Group
Website www.lendlease.com

Lend Lease Infrastructure (formerly Valemus and Bilfinger Berger Australia, trading as Lend Lease) is the second largest construction and engineering specialist business in Australia and a division of Lend Lease Group. [2]

Contents

It is active in the civil engineering, building and property, mining and resources, telecommunications, electrical, infrastructure services, engineering services and environmental services industries. [3]

History

Lend Lease Infrastructure was originally established as Bilfinger Berger Australia (BBA) in 2004 as the holding company of Bilfinger Berger AG (BBAG)’s investments in Australia. BBAG had acquired Baulderstone Hornibrook in 1993 and Abigroup in 2004. Bilfinger Berger Services was created in November 2005 by transferring the services businesses owned by Abigroup and Baulderstone to a new services focused company. In November 2009 it was announced that consideration was being given to floating BBA on the Australian Securities Exchange via an initial public offering (IPO) [4] and in June 2010 BBA changed its name to Valemus [2] but the listing was abandoned in July 2010. [5] In March 2011 the company was acquired by Lend Lease Group. [6]

Operations

Lend Lease Infrastructure consists of three operating companies which are autonomous entities:

Major projects

Major projects undertaken by Lend Lease Infrastructure included:

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