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UK Business
Experience
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 Arts and leisure
Lend Lease Projects has an ongoing role at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London where we are project managing a number of discrete projects forming part of the museum’s £150 million Future Plan. We have completed 15 projects to date including the Architecture Gallery, the John Madejski Garden, the Stained Glass and Sacred Silver Gallery and the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art.
We are also project managing the £111 redevelopment of the Royal Festival Hall site on London’s South Bank with a retail development, forming Phase 1, completing in August 2005. Phase 2 involves the refurbishment of the main auditorium that will re-open in the summer of 2007. A new extension building, providing staff accommodation, was completed in April 2006.
For the National Museums of Scotland, we are assisting in the £40 million transformation of the Royal Museum in Edinburgh.
Our experience in the leisure sector has focused on hotel roll out programs for Accor and the management of exhibition venues including Earls Court in London. We have also been involved in a range of sports projects, many of which form part of our higher education portfolio.
Image: The John Madejski Garden, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
 Communities and regeneration
Lend Lease Projects delivers a comprehensive regeneration service to create a ‘sense of place’ in which people can live, work and enjoy life. We invest much time in understanding the aspirations of the community. We are able to determine the right range and level of services to be provided, such as education and healthcare, and our commitment to economic, environmental and cultural sustainability, including job creation, lies at the heart of the company’s urban regeneration philosophy.
For Sunderland arc (a partnership between English Partnerships, One North East and Sunderland City Council), Lend Lease Projects is providing program and project management services to assist in the redevelopment of approximately 800 acres around Sunderland city centre with specific responsibility for delivering two mixed-use schemes at Stadium Park and Farringdon Row.
Lend Lease Projects is also providing development project management expertise to First Base Partnership, an investment and development company that designs, builds, funds and manages stylish, high quality and affordable homes in London and the south east.
Image: Farringdon Row, Sunderland arc
 Education and healthcare
Lend Lease Projects is currently a program and project management service provider to Partnerships for Schools on the UK Government’s ‘Building Schools for the Future’ (BSF) program.
We have also recently been appointed to project manage the first of 13 new primary schools in Solihull as part of a c£1.5 billion regeneration program, a £25 million redevelopment of Heston Infant School & Nursery, Heston Junior School and Heston Secondary Community School in Hounslow and a £28.4 million scheme at East Barnet Secondary School under the BSF program.
We have previously worked with a number of further education establishments but recent and current project management experience has focused on the higher education sector. Our clients include Anglia Ruskin University, Combined Universities in Cornwall, the University of Wolverhampton, Imperial College London, Roehampton University (Surrey) and the University of Derby.
In the healthcare sector, Lend Lease Projects provides design and project management staff for hospital projects as well as specialist healthcare and clinical planners to carry out feasibility studies, briefing and audits. Assignments have included Manchester Joint Hospitals, the MedicX roll out program and Interhealth’s Independent Sector Treatment Centre in Runcorn.
Image: IT Complex, University of Wolverhampton
 Government
Lend Lease Projects has an excellent track record in working with both central and local government. In particular, we have provided a multi-disciplinary team for the £750 million, four-year Jobcentre Plus roll out program, working on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Jobcentre Plus is one of the first large scale ‘fast track’ roll out projects to be carried out by the public sector and has drawn on Lend Lease Projects’ program management skills to deliver multi-site projects on a local, regional and national scale, adopting a true partnering approach with the DWP, contractors and suppliers. We have also provided design, commercial, project and health and safety management services.
In 2005 Lend Lease Projects secured a place on the OGCbuying.solutions (OGCbs) framework through the OJEU procedure under which we qualified to provide project management and full design services to the public sector. The OGCbs framework enables government departments and authorities to achieve greater efficiency and is creating value for money improvements in the government’s procurement budget.
To date, Lend Lease Projects has received six commissions under the OGCbs framework for a diverse range of public sector clients.
Image: Jobcentre Plus, Department for Work and Pensions
 Offices
Lend Lease Projects understands the exacting requirements of its clients, be it as investor, owner/occupier or landlord, to provide high quality and flexible office space.
As a national framework project manager for BT, our move management expertise was applied to its headquarters building in London when the occupancy doubled from 900 to 1800. The project required careful management of each individual’s technical and accommodation needs while ensuring continuity of business during the refurbishment works.
Lend Lease Projects also project managed a national program of works for the BBC involving the new build, fit out or refurbishment of radio broadcasting studios, offices and support facilities.
Lend Lease Projects has also established a reputation for delivering a first-class technical due diligence service to major investors in the commercial market. In a relationship that has developed over four years we have received instructions from Deutsche Bank Real Estate for 32 assignments relating to over 3.3 million square feet of acquisitions in the commercial office and logistics sectors in the UK. We have consequently provided this service in Milan and Singapore. We have recently offered this service to Blue Capital GmbH.
Image: BT Centre, London
 Retail
Lend Lease Projects is able to draw on a powerhouse of knowledge and skills in developing, designing and building retail assets. We provide design and project management support on both new developments and current asset enhancements, focusing on the commercial objectives of owners and the ongoing trading requirements of retailers.
The five award winning retail centres are Bluewater in Kent, Chapelfield in Norwich, Touchwood in Solihull, Overgate in Dundee and TresAguas in Madrid. Other retail schemes include a 330,000 square feet extension to Golden Square in Warrington, currently under construction, Park Place in Croydon and the Arndale in Eastbourne. Planning permission has also recently been granted for a two-storey extension to Overgate and planning is being sought for a 55,000 square feet exhibition and events venue at Bluewater.
Lend Lease Projects is also working alongside IN ‘n’ OUT, a new UK business specialising in Drive-Through-Service and Xpress MoT centres, for which we are providing an integrated offer that includes program and project management, design, planning supervision and construction management services. IN ‘n’ OUT plans to open 300 centres across the UK over the next five years.
Image: IN ‘n’ OUT Centre, Northampton
 Technology
Lend Lease Projects can draw on more than 30 years’ design and project management experience in the creation of industrial and high technology facilities that provide maximum productivity with absolute safety, and working to the strictest timelines.
We develop solutions that meet our clients’ business objectives, engineered from first principles by our specialists around our clients’ process, production and technology requirements.
Complex projects require coordinated design and project management. We are able to provide a single point of responsibility for all these functions.
We can also provide process IT, quality management and validation staff who can qualify and set to work specialist systems and equipment.
Our clients include those from the food, life sciences, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, electronics, manufacturing and other high-tech industries.
Image: TWI, Cambridge
 Telecommunications
Lend Lease Projects has the management and technical expertise to service the continually evolving and expanding telecommunications sector on a global scale.
Lend Lease Projects is able to service the needs of major telecommunications companies, both vendors and operators. We work closely with our clients, planning the development and project delivery of commissions such as:
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Complex technology requires management experience and commitment to deliver the right results on time. Our understanding of our customers’ needs, and our confidence in providing customised solutions guarantees that Lend Lease Projects stands out from the rest.
Our relationships are our key to success and we are trusted to deliver. Current global clients include AT&T, BT, Cisco, Cogent, EADS, Ericsson, Flag, IBM, ITT, Lucent, the Ministry of Defence, NEC, Nokia, Nortel, Telstra and Vodafone.
Image:Hutchison 3G Roll Out, NEC 3G Mobile Systems
 Transport
Lend Lease Projects has an impressive track record in the UK rail sector, working for government agencies, railway operators, developers and commercial entities on main line, suburban, metro and light railway projects. We have carried out feasibility, project development and strategic planning exercises through to management of the construction phase including quality, value, risk and safety.
We have worked continuously with Network Rail for the past ten years and since 2001 with the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA), now re-assigned to the Department for Transport (DfT), as one of its project and program management suppliers.
We are also providing project management delivery services to Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE), Transport Scotland, Virgin Trains, National Express. Other appointments include those for London Underground, Tube Lines and Metronet PPP.
These projects give weight to Lend Lease’s worldwide experience in the transport sector that includes over 50 appointments at some of the world’s most famous airports including London Heathrow, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, Chicago O’Hare, LaGuardia New York, Barcelona, Robin Hood Doncaster, Sheremetyevo International, Liverpool John Lennon, Palma de Mallorca, Prague and Ben Gurion International.
Image: Project & Program Management Supplier Panel, Department for Transport
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