Northern Territory company Sitzler has been recognised for its diverse civil projects throughout the past 12 months, named 2019 Large Civil Construction Business of the Year at the National Business Leadership Awards held on the weekend.

Hosted by Master Builders, the awards acknowledge and celebrate successful building and construction businesses that harness best practice and innovation across their business, are exemplars of ethical commercial conduct and make positive contributions to local communities. 

Denita Wawn, CEO of Master Builders Australia, said Sitzler's award reflected the business’ outstanding capacity and capability to deliver large civil/engineering construction projects that met client needs in an environmentally and socially conscious manner.

“Sitzler is an iconic name in the construction industry across Australia’s north and they have built a national presence as a preferred contractor on the back of their reputation for delivering projects in the civil, infrastructure, defence, space innovation and commercial sectors,” she said. 

In the past five years, Sitzler has delivered in excess of $300M of civil projects that stretch from Exmouth in WA and Timber Creek, Delamere, Arnhem Land, Borroloola and Groote Eylandt in the NT in addition to projects within the Darwin metro region. 

Clients of the company include Department of Defence, NT Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics, Indigenous Land Councils, multinational construction firms, mining companies and private developers.

Projects have covered a wide range of civil disciplines including bulk earthworks, road construction, bridgeworks and piling, major flood mitigation projects and construction of subdivisions.

Since it was established in 2009, Sitzler’s civil division has tripled in size to include 4 full-time Project Managers along with dedicated estimating, survey and design capability.

In the field, they have a team of seven highly experienced Supervisors and Leading Hands with more than 150 years of combined civil construction experience between them.

Ms Wawn said Sitzler had also invested heavily in the acquisition of new plant and equipment to significantly increase their ability to provide civil solutions for their clients.

"A fully-equipped earthmoving fleet and a team of highly experienced multi-skilled key personnel has enabled Sitzler to self-perform the majority of civil work in the past five years,” she said

“Sitzler’s ongoing success in the delivery of complex and challenging projects in remote and isolated locations has demonstrated their ability to overcome the unique challenges faced in such conditions whilst maintaining a record of on-time completion.

“Importantly for a business delivering major projects in Australia’s north, Sitzler has maintained its commitment to respectively engage with local Indigenous communities at all levels across their projects.

"This has allowed Sitzler to create significant employment opportunities and hands on experience for local Indigenous people."

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