The 2026 Australian Worker Exposure Survey puts construction at the top of the national table for cumulative exposure, for silica and for lead. It also shows the industry running the country’s highest rate of high level exposure to three agents that rarely make the...
Job demands, poor support, isolated work and conflict on site are not soft issues in the regulations. They are named hazards a business has a legal duty to manage, and that duty does not scale with headcount. Most builders think of work health and safety as falls,...
On 1 December 2026, the list of airborne contaminant limits that applies on every Australian building site is replaced. Most of the coverage so far has treated this as a change of name. It is more than that. Sitting in the comparison table are reductions that land...
Most builders think of their business as something they build. Foundations, frames, roofs, teams. What Aaron Applefield puts to them is a different question. What are you bringing to it? Applefield sat down with The Good Builder Podcast for a conversation that started...
Silica is one of the slowest, quietest hazards on a building site. A test that reads a worker's breath is trying to catch it before the damage is done, and this month it moved into its next phase. Here is where it is really up to, and what it means for the way you...
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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The 2026 Australian Worker Exposure Survey puts construction at the top of the national table for cumulative exposure, for silica and for lead. It also shows the industry running the country’s highest rate of high level exposure to three agents that rarely make the...
Australian construction reports artificial intelligence adopted at scale at nearly twice the global rate. It is also less confident than the rest of the world about improving productivity. The distance between those two numbers is the whole story. Australian...
Every estimate, variation, delay and defect a building business records says something about how it actually performs. The widening gap is between the builders who read that record and the builders who file it. A building business generates information constantly....
Multiplex is back on site at Melbourne Square for the fourth time. The way AURA got to a groundbreaking says as much about apartment construction right now as the tower does. Multiplex has started work on AURA, an $800 million, 67 storey residential tower at the...