11 controls before crews are placed under pressure on site. This aligns with Milleen Group’s Construction Manager role framework, which places strong emphasis on mobilisation readiness, workforce planning, sequencing, delivery assurance, and early escalation of site constraints. At Milleen Group, every successful project starts before mobilisation. The team focuses heavily on understanding the scope, constrains, commercial position, programme requirements, access, ground conditions, temporary works, plant requirements, labour strategy, subcontractor interfaces, and client expectations before works commence. As Andrew told us, “Our approach is straightforward: win the right work, plan it properly, deliver it safely, protect the client’s outcome, and leave a clear standard behind.” This is steered by Milleen Group’s ethos of lowdrama delivery, believing clients should feel that the team is in control, that problems are being identified early, and that solutions are being brought forward before issues escalate. Milleen Group’s internal Delivery Flywheel reinforces this model: exceptional project delivery builds trust; trust creates opportunity; profit is reinvested into better systems, people, and capability; and that capability strengthens the next project. Milleen Group’s strategic approach to service delivery has earned its team recognition with the BUILD Client Collaboration Excellence Award 2026 – Australia. Reflecting on this achievement, Andrew shared: “Clients choose us because we understand the practical realities of site delivery. We know that a successful project depends on the quality of the plan, the readiness of the work front, the capability of the team, the discipline of the systems, and the willingness to communicate early when risks emerge.” With this forward-thinking approach, Milleen Group generally targets work that is high-consequence, technically demanding, or programmesensitive. This includes civil infrastructure, high-voltage and renewable energy works, mining and industrial infrastructure, foundations, piling, complex concrete, utilities, and local government infrastructure. Most recently, the company has been significantly evolved in energy infrastructure and battery energy storage projects, including civil and foundation works associated with major high-voltage and renewable energy assets. A shining example of this has been the specialist civil works delivered for the Eraring Battery Energy Storage System expansion. This project included overhead transmission line foundations, 900mm piles with 12-metre permanent casings and 22-metre double wall temporary casings, the construction of a third 330kV transformer compound, and associated foundations and services. Projects of this nature require a high level of planning, methodology control, and site discipline. The key challenges include working around live or high-consequence electrical infrastructure, coordinating piling and civil works with strict programme interfaces, managing ground and access constraints, ensuring safe plant movements, and maintaining high quality records for critical assets. “What we are particularly proud of is that this type of work demonstrates exactly where Milleen Group adds value: taking complex, high-risk construction requirements and turning them into practical, executable site methodologies,” Andrew told us. “Our teams are not simply providing labour and equipment; they are solving construction problems.” Furthermore, Milleen Group takes great pride in its contributions to broader energy transition infrastructure. The company’s project history includes work connected with BESS, substations, transmission infrastructure, and high-voltage enabling works, which aligns strongly with the region’s future economic direction and wider Australia’s transition toward cleaner energy infrastructure. For Milleen Group, the remainder of 2026 will be focused on disciplined growth, stronger systems, and deliberate positioning in markets where its team can create the greatest value. Driven by the operating theme of “Win the right work. Deliver it right.”, the team’s strategic direction is clear: to become a specialist construction and engineering delivery group known for complex civil, foundations, energy, industrial, and infrastructure works. This year, the team’s key priorities will encompass deepening its position within strategic growth lanes; strengthening its bid and nobid discipline to select opportunities based on capability; enhancing scalable delivery, using internal resources and trusted contractors where appropriate; improving leadership capacity by developing supervisors, product managers, and operational leaders; and enhancing its systems and reporting through the improvement of project controls, cost visibility, forecasting, and performance dashboards. Internally, the team is also continuing to mature the business through improved role frameworks, KPI scorecards, professional development plans, plant and equipment controls, leadership training, and operational governance. These implemented improvements are designed to support growth without losing the control, culture, or delivery quality that have come to define Australia’s Engineering-Led Infrastructure Contractor of the Year 2026. “We are not chasing growth for its own sake,” Andrew concluded. “We are focused on the right projects, with the right clients, at the right margin, with the right delivery model and risk profile. In practical terms, 2026 is about building the platform for the next stage of Milleen Group: a more structured, scalable, and commercially disciplined construction and engineering business.” Contact: Andrew Stones Company: Milleen Group Web Address: www.milleen.com
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