The Good Builder Podcast has hit 300 episodes. It started as a conversation between two people who cared about the industry. It has become something much bigger than that. Three hundred episodes. When Renae and Aaron started this thing, there was no guarantee anyone...
PrimeBuild Recruitment founder Luke Cotterell spent more than a decade on tools, in offices and on sites before he ever placed a candidate. That background is exactly why the builders he works with keep calling him back. There is a version of a recruiter that...
Not everyone gets excited about sponsorships. For most builders, it’s another logo on a jersey, maybe a lunch in a corporate box. Nothing wrong with that, but is that really all it can be? We reckon Ausbuild has a pretty good story here. What’s the story? Ausbuild’s...
Let’s be honest most of us aren’t scrolling through TED Talks at the end of a big day. But chucking on a good podcast while you’re behind the wheel, on the tools, or just barbecuing a brisket? That’s something else. In the pod this morning, Az and Pete rattled off...
Alright, brace yourselves for a cracking new way to kick off your day! Starting today, March 26, 2025, at 6 AM AEDT, Az and Pete from The Good Builder are launching their Daily Podcast, a punchy 15-minute rundown of all things home building, streaming Monday to...
The Good Builder podcast is back with Episode 2, and this one’s packed with a few more laughs, hard truths, and industry insights. Pete and Az get into everything from youth crime (their solution? Put ‘em to work on-site!) to 3D-printed homes, a quick cyclone re-cap,...
We’re Hitting the Ground Running It’s official, we've just dropped the first The Good Builder Podcast episode, and we’re coming in hot! From breaking industry news to builder profiles and the best (and most interesting) stories in construction, this is the podcast you...
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Analysis of ASIC data released this month shows 3,435 construction companies entered external administration in 2025-26, down from 3,596. It is the first annual fall since the wave began. What sits underneath it is more complicated than a recovery. For four years, the...
Why more builders are moving procurement out of the inbox and into the system they already run their jobs from. There is a moment most builders know well. The job is mapped out, the costs are still moving, and the plan for the week is clear enough. Then you open your...
A chipped benchtop or a scratched pane of glass rarely stops a job. But across a build, that kind of damage quietly costs both the builder and the trades real time and real money. Here is why it happens, and how Goop Guys' surface protection removes the cost before it...
The Good Builder’s Top 100 report found one franchise network added builds in a year the market lost them. On the podcast this week, James Stroud gives an explanation that has almost nothing to do with the market. Queensland’s hundred largest residential builders...