Seamus has over 20 years of experience in property, construction, design and development. He is a leader of creative and diverse real estate teams defining the challenges and opportunities that modern cities face, developing strategies to enable quality execution on very large scale complex urban regeneration projects.  He is keenly interested in the early stage development propositioning and vision which enhance value and place outcomes, and encourage multi-disciplinary teams to strive for excellence. During his 15-year Lendlease tenure, Seamus has worked on multiple projects both in Australia and internationally. An architect by background, Seamus looks at precincts from a unique perspective and finds a distinctive vision for Place

Welcome to the future of design discussion bringing together leaders in interior design, sustainability and innovation to explore new approaches to creating future communities.

Tiffany Buckins, IKEA Australia Head of Interior Design, Mr Jason Grant, Interior Stylist, Dr Thea Brejzek, Professor of Spatial Theory UTS and Seamus McCartney, Head of Product and Strategy and Place at Lendlease delve into how we can create adaptive, local communities and what the community of the future will look like. (13:15min onwards)

The Place Makers Series, hosted by Amanda Steele, CBRE’s former Executive Managing Director, Property Management, explores Sydney, Singapore and Tokyo to discover how imagination and clever design are creating places that matter: green space and urban regeneration shaping spaces, new precincts for new generations that bring in the community, as well as retail and office towers that encourage connection and creativity by surrounding people with art murals and installations.

Smarter Cities: In this series, Jason de Sousa explores urban life and how it's changing around us with people focused on creating better places, cities and new ways of getting things done.

"A blank canvas might seem easier to work with, however [it] comes with none of the authenticity that an existing city or urban framework has," says Seamus McCartney, Lendlease's head of urban strategy and place development.

April edition of QANTAS magazine.

Seamus McCartney talks to QANTAS magazine about how Lendlease’s commitment to sustainability is a differentiator for the business.

When it comes to mixing kids and careers, mothers are still more likely than fathers to take extended periods of time off work.

Love it or hate it, that norm remains strong: only one in 20 fathers take primary parental leave, according to the ABS, and 85 per cent fathers and partners surveyed by the Human Rights Commission took fewer than four weeks of leave.

So what happens when fathers try to shake up the status quo? It depends.

We spoke to three men who took parental leave from work to find out more.