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There's Nothing These Guys Won't Turn Into a Brick: Will Stewart, Natural Brick
October 5, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minSend us Fan Mail What happens when you put hemp into a structural brick? Will Stewart, director and co-owner of Natural Brick, joins us to unpack how his team is rethinking one of the most familiar building products around, from what goes…
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An Ex-AFL Ruckman's Plan to Put Solar on 500 Footy Clubs: Tom Campbell, Footy for Climate
September 21, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minSend us Fan Mail Most climate conversations in sport start with the elite game. Tom Campbell starts with the clubrooms: a grassroots footy club whose power bill dropped from $9,000 a year to $900, with the $8,000 difference going straight…
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Australia is Running Out of Timber: with Matt de Jongh, Responsible Wood
September 7, 2026 · 1 hr 17 minSend us Fan Mail Australia is the seventh most forested country on earth, yet it imports around $5 billion more timber than it sells, and the gap grows every year. Matt de Jongh, a forester of about 25 years and now with Responsible Wood…
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We're Building to Yesterday's Climate: The NCC Risks Builders Face, with Ailie Gallant, Climate Scientist
August 24, 2026 · 1 hr 8 minSend us Fan Mail Australia's National Construction Code climate zones and NatHERS and PHPP models built on them, are calculated from climate averages that are no longer holding. When Brian raises this, Monash University climate scientist…
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How Far Should You Push Performance? Rethinking High-Performance Building with Andy Marlow of Envirotecture
August 10, 2026 · 1 hr 13 minSend us Fan Mail Andy Marlow's definition of efficiency in passive house and airtightness will annoy some people: it's doing the bare minimum required to clear the hurdle, which he says is much the same as being really bloody lazy. Andy is…
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Working 80-Hour Weeks & Losing $400K: Kyle Zanetto & Luke Davies on Running a Profitable Building Company
July 27, 2026 · 1 hr 15 minSend us Fan Mail Kyle Zanetto lost close to $400,000 in a single year working eighty-hour weeks. Luke Davies sat $75,000 in overdraft with a maxed-out mortgage and had to sell his house. Both now run successful Tasmanian building companies…
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Ep #66 Underinsured and Wide Open: The Insurances Builders Must Have with Daniel Webber
July 13, 2026 · 1 hr 11 minSend us Fan Mail Most builders are more exposed than they realise, and usually find out at the worst possible moment. In this episode, Daniel Webber of Webber Insurance, a broker who specialises in complex construction risk, walks through…
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Ep #65 Solving Construction's Skills Shortage: Apprenticeships & Workforce Development with Ben Bardon
June 29, 2026 · 55 minSend us Fan Mail In this episode, Ben Bardon, CEO of the National Australian Apprenticeships Association (NAAA), shares his journey from working as a painter and decorator to becoming one of Australia's leading voices on apprenticeships…