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Hosted by The Good Builder · 🇺🇸 US · EN-AU · 330 episodes
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This week in home building news! Catch up with Az and a colourful array of guests, to hear about who's killing it, who's innovating, and who's getting into strife in the world of new home construction.
The Good Builder hosts The Good Builder Podcast, a news show with 330 episodes published.
Alex Harris from Wattyl on the couch for the first time, and Bec from Adapt Modular back for a second run. They join Az to talk about what the construction industry keeps getting wrong about its people, and what a few op
Az unpacks five red flags to watch for before entering a business partnership. As The Good Builder has grown, the partnership approaches have grown with it. Some are worth taking. Many are not. This episode covers the si
Josh Tyrrell signed with GJ Gardner Homes at twenty nine, opened in October 2016, and has since built around 250 homes across Warragul, Drouin, Morwell and Traralgon. Today he has 18 staff, an average contract price near
Most builders were never taught marketing. For most of the last decade they did not need to be. Orders came in, the phone rang, and whatever budget existed went to whichever sales rep called first. That market has tighte
Rod Gibbs has had three jobs in construction. He has done almost everything inside them. He started out tiling, switched to carpentry, and served his apprenticeship at Glover Building Group before becoming a partner in t
Phil runs WD Constructions in Melbourne. He started in 2018 with one week of work at a mate's house and a first child on the way. Six years on he has never spent a dollar on advertising. Every job has come through word o
Most builders open an AI tab, type into it like it's Google, close it, and get back the same generic content everyone else is posting. Hard hat emojis. Crane emojis. Transforming spaces, one build at a time. Builders are
Az runs through the week that was. Every state is quoting a big housing number. Queensland says 100,000 homes. New South Wales says 150,000. Victoria says 300,000 unlocked. South Australia says 50,000. Add them up and th
Most builders treat a communication breakdown as a people problem. Dan Okart says it is a clarity problem, and it starts at the top. Dan from A Thousand Feet Deep is back with Az for a third Monday in a row. The brief wa
Aaron Applefield has worn nineteen different hats in twenty years at Brett's. Ask him what he does and he reframes the question. His core, he says, is simpler than any job title. He is a coach. In this episode Az sits do
A big week at The Good Builder. Az runs through three announcements and three headlines moving the residential building industry right now. The announcements first. The Milwaukee Tools Winter Sucks campaign kicks off, wi
Burnout. Staff churn. Chasing defects. A team that only works when you're standing over it. Dan from One Thousand Feet Deep says none of those are the real problem — they're the cracks that show up when a building busine
While the rest of the industry went backwards in FY26, Stroud Homes was the only franchise in our Top 100 report to grow — in both revenue and numbers. So we sat down with James Stroud to work out why. It's not a growth-
Brendan and Hayley Kelly have spent two decades building XP Finishes into one of the Gold Coast's most respected finishing trades — named Trade Business of the Year in 2025 — but as they say themselves, they're only as g
Fewer homes, more money...that's the Queensland building market in one line. In this Monday episode, Az runs through what's just dropped, what's coming, and the one tool he reckons is one of the most critical pieces of t
Australia tends to think it has home building figured out. Michael Hopkins isn't convinced. A bricklayer by trade, Michael learnt the trade in Wales, worked across Germany, and has spent 30 years on sites in Australia. H
Every builder is up against the same question right now. How do you build more homes, faster, without dropping quality or blowing the margin? This episode makes the case for answering it differently. Az sits down with Ad
The Top 100 Queensland Builders report dropped on Friday. Most builders will scroll past the first 30 pages to see if they beat the bloke down the road. This episode is about everything else in there. Host Az walks throu
Most builders think margin disappears on site. Owen Chambers says it disappears earlier than that. Owen joins Az from The Professional Builder, the coaching team working with thousands of residential builders across Aust
Builders think their customers care most about build quality. Customers say it is communication. Az and the team from Increase Construction dig into where AI actually earns its place in a building business, from sales ca
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