Building biologist Zara D'Cotta spent years searching for a home that wouldn't make her sick. What she discovered changed how she works and it should change how builders build. Most builders care deeply about the homes they deliver. They obsess over details, push back...
A generational shift for NSW planning The NSW Government’s Planning System Reforms Bill 2025 has officially passed through both houses of Parliament, marking the most significant overhaul of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 in decades. For an...
When you think of wellness, construction sites aren’t usually the first setting that comes to mind. Dust, deadlines, and physical strain often take priority over meditation or mindfulness. But Australian cladding manufacturer Weathertex is looking to change that...
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and miss it, but that we aim too low and reach it.” – Michelangelo Dan Urquhart dropped that quote mid-conversation on The Good Builder Podcast, and it landed like a hammer on concrete. Because if there’s...
Since launching The Good Builder, we’ve had hundreds of conversations with builders, trades and suppliers right across the country. What’s become crystal clear? People are ready to talk. We’re seeing site managers and apprentices open up. Business owners sharing their...
This week marks Men’s Health Week (9–15 June 2025), a pivotal time to spotlight the health challenges men face, particularly in the construction industry. At The Good Builder, we recognise the immense pressures builders and tradespeople endure, tight deadlines,...
There’s a simple truth in our industry; it’s easy to talk about mental health, but it’s a lot harder to create the spaces where those conversations actually happen. That’s why we started TGB Fridays, and why last Friday night’s very first event on the Sunshine Coast...
Queensland Day just got a whole lot louder. On Friday, June 6th — the same day QLD turns 166 — we’re launching something new for the home building industry. It’s grassroots, it’s for the crew on the tools and the legends behind the scenes, and most importantly, it’s...
We're big fans of the Level Up Podcast and thought we'd share a few of our insights from a recent podcast from Duayne. In the latest episode of Level Up with Duayne Pearce, Duayne sits down with holistic health coach Hector Del Nido, and it couldn’t have come at a...
We recently caught up with Tom Egan, founder of Avia Homes. If you haven’t listened to the podcast with Tom yet, head over to Spotify and check it out. In less than three years, Tom took Avia from an idea to a $100 million construction company. How? He did it by...
We’ve had the pleasure of chatting with some cracking guests on the podcast lately people with real stories, sharp thinking, and plenty of heart. It just so happens that a few of them are women. Women who’ve built businesses, led teams, redefined roles and reshaped...
You don’t always have to buy a ticket to win the lotto, just ask Aaron Morris. The building industry stalwart who is best known as the Group Head of Sales for the Stoddart Group was walking around the Sunshine Coast without a worry in the world last December, looking...
Two blokes and a warehouse of brilliantly bright workwear are trying to tackle the scourge of suicide in the construction industry one shirt at a time. After losing a close mate to suicide, Dan Allen and Ed Ross started Trade Mutts, a social enterprise workwear company by tradies for tradies.
Every Australian should expect to come home safe and well from work each day – but in the construction industry that is all too often not the case. About 30 people are killed on building sites each year in this country, and according to SafeWork Australia, there are a...
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A new bill before Queensland Parliament would let the state compulsorily acquire private land to help deliver projects of state significance. Owners keep their right to compensation, but the usual avenues to contest the underlying decision on its merits would be...
A long-established Perth and Melbourne truss fabricator has secured just over $3 million in state funding to automate its Western Australian plant, and the detail behind the grant tells builders something useful about where component supply is going. A.G. Trusses, a...
Most of the housing debate in Australia comes down to a few familiar levers. Interest rates. Migration. Planning approvals. Tax settings. All of them matter. But there is a number that gets far less airtime, and it may be the most important one of all. Over the past...
Queensland names the first three proponents for the inaugural site under its Land Activation Program, locking in more than 450 homes across townhouses, aged care and affordable housing. For builders, this is the moment the program stops being policy and starts being a...