Civil & Civic was an Australian construction company. Founded in 1951, it was acquired in 1961 by

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Civil & Civic was founded by

Dick Dusseldorp Gerardus Jozef Dusseldorp (2 December 191822 April 2000) was a Dutch water engineer and the founder of Civil & Civic, the financing arm of which later emerged as Lendlease, one of Australia's largest companies. Career Born in Utrecht in the Neth ...

in 1951 on behalf of

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building companies Bredero's Bouwbedrijf and The Royal Dutch Harbour Company as an Australian building contractor. 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

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.Modern Townships for Snowy Mountains Workers
'' Sydney Morning Herald'' 12 January 1954 page 11 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

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and recruit labour from the Netherlands to erect the homes. Dusseldorp established Civil & Civic to take on and manage the multimillion-dollar contract. 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,Sydney Opera House Guide
NSW State Records & Archives Australia's first all concrete skyscraper ( Caltex House),Ceramic Facing at New Caltex House
'' Cumberland Argus'' 13 November 1957 page 10 and the world's first high-rise strata title apartment building ( Blues Point Tower).Towering ambition
''Sydney Morning Herald'' 27 September 2002 In 1961 Civil & Civic was acquired by

, but the company continued to trade under the Civil & Civic name, also constructing the world's tallest lightweight concrete construction building (

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), and the tallest building in the world outside North America (

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) at the time of completion. 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

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