National Excellence Awards 2026

At this year’s Total Construction National Excellence Awards, we’re proud to celebrate the incredible talent within our team.

Striving for excellence is at the heart of everything we do. The dedication and passion of our team members allows us not only to deliver value and quality to our clients, but contributes to our purpose of making a positive difference to people’s lives through excellence in construction.

Congratulations to the following award winners. Your hard work and passion does not go unnoticed, and we appreciate the value you bring to Total Construction.

As always, safety comes first. The Safety Award goes to the project completed in the past year that scores the highest on metrics including attitude to Workplace Health and Safety, BMS process adherence, Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR), Medical Treatment Injury Frequency Rate (MTIFR), and client satisfaction including CPR safety ratings.

This year, the Safety Award goes to the Kennards Self Storage Guildford NSW project!

Congratulations to Project Manager Fernando Machado, Contracts Administrator Nigel Deng, Contracts Administrator John Melia and Site Manager Chadi Ghafary.

The National Quality Award is named after our co-founder and director, Bill Franks, for his passion for continuously improving quality standards.

Projects are scored against a number of metrics including attitude to quality, BMS and CPR process adherence, defect management process adherence, defects at handover, and quality of the finished works.

This year’s Quality Award goes Peters in Mulgrave, VIC!

Well done to the project team – Construction Manager Lou Cardamone, Site Manager Nathan Humphrey, Contracts Administrator Andres Huertas, Project Coordinator Chao Liu, HSE Coordinator Clayton Mullett, Site Foreman David Zorzanello, and Quality Manager Brett Storen.

Congratulations to Matthew Canning. Matt is a reliable and valued team member who collaborates well within his team. Matt has shown a great
willingness to learn and engage himself, through consistently showing up to site and learning through his resources in the team. He has demonstrated his commitment to advancing his career in the industry.

Congratulations to Lilla Kaptay. Lilla consistently approaches every task with honesty and care, ensuring work is completed to the best of her ability. Lilla stepped up and took the lead to ensure the tender remained on track. She selected trades she felt confident managing and simply got on with the job. There was no hesitation and it was clear she saw it as a team responsibility to deliver.

At Total Construction, we proactively seek to build a culture guided by our purpose and core values. We celebrate the individuals that embody our core values and make a positive difference to those around them.

Congratulations to the following individuals:

• Collaboration: David Alessi, Design Project Manager NSW
• Integrity: Chadi Ghafary, Site Manager NSW
• Respect: Nigel Deng, Project Manager NSW
• Accountability, Ric White, Pre-Construction Manager QLD
• Ingenuity: Don Peteranna, Senior Project Manager VIC
• Mentorship: Michael Tabatabaian, Senior Estimator VIC

Well done to all National Excellence Awards winners and we look forward to seeing the entire team at Total Construction continue to strive for excellence!