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since March 12, 2025
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Being busy doesn't necessarily mean you're running a healthy building business. In fact, chasing more sales, taking on the wrong projects and carrying too much overhead can be exactly what gets a builder into trouble. In this episode of The Good Builder Podcast, Aaron Ng sits down with Mark Vassall…

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Most builders can tell you who their customer is. But there’s a big difference between knowing your customer and actually designing your business around them. In this short episode of The Good Builder Podcast, Az looks at Queensland builder Mayde and the strategy behind its first-home buyer model. …
What actually makes someone a good builder? For Ben from Stroud Homes Brisbane North, it isn’t simply knowing how to build a house. It’s knowing how to bring the right people together. Ben’s path through construction is anything but conventional. From roofing and carpentry to concreting, rigging, m…
What actually makes a good builder? For Alex Palazzolo, founder of ATLI Building Co. in Melbourne, the finished home is only part of the answer. A quality build should be the minimum. What separates a good builder is everything that happens around it: communication, certainty, trust and the experie…
Does the energy feel a bit off at the moment? There’s a lot weighing on people. Cost of living, government decisions, what’s happening in our communities, pressure in business and the constant stream of things coming at us every time we pick up our phones. For this public holiday Monday solo, Az st…
What happens before a client signs a building contract could be one of the biggest opportunities for builders to improve their business. Site feasibility, zoning, overlays, setbacks, siting, quoting and working out what can actually be built on a block have traditionally meant manual checks, multip…
What does being a good builder actually look like when you strip away the systems, processes and business jargon? In this episode of The Good Builder Podcast, Az sits down with Mitch Thompson from Vista Built in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges for a conversation about building better homes, better teams …
540 construction companies entered voluntary administration on a single day in August. It sounds catastrophic. But there’s an important detail buried underneath that number. In this Monday Builder Briefing, Az from The Good Builder takes eight minutes to unpack three stories Australian residential …
Australia needs more bricklayers. But according to Andy Shaw, simply putting more apprentices into the system won’t solve the problem. Andy is the founder of Brickies Network and has spent more than 35 years in construction. He started as an apprentice bricklayer, built and ran his own bricklaying …
At 23, Carrick was installing aerials when the ladder slipped out from under him. He fell two storeys onto a concrete driveway, broke vertebrae in his back and his wrist, and lost his job before the ambulance had picked him up off the ground. Six months off work. His mum washing him in the shower. …
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