Crushing It In Construction

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. Building something great requires a strong foundation-whether it’s a skyscraper, a business, or even a podcast. Just like in construction, where every beam and bolt serves a purpose, the right tools and insights can shape the industry’s future. But what happens when the technology meant to help builders becomes more of a hindrance than a sol...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. Are you a subcontractor who's lost in an endless list of manual tasks and processes? This week sees Daniel Ouliaris step into the chair - he's a former concreter and now Founder/CEO of Neo Intelligence. Neo came about when Daniel and his brothers chose to reinvest money from their successful concreting business into designing softw...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. This week's guest is none other than Peter Bottero, Founder/Director of Tensile Design & Construct. Tensile have a unique niche within the industry. They specialise in structural cables, rods and tensioned mesh - transforming interiors, decorating facades and implementing cutting edge urban green roofing to help cool our cities. He...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. And a warm welcome to Jeremy Dyer, Managing Director of Total Fitouts. Jeremy takes us through the unique way his business operates - sharing how the franchising model works perfectly for fitouts, and provides a heap of benefits to everyone involved. As he says, business is all about relationships. Whether that's getting your face out t...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. It's our 100th episode! Who better to join us to mark our first century than Director of DBG Projects, Brett Marris. Brett has a few stories from his time in business, and he shares candidly on his upbringing, his route into the industry, and some of the hardships he's faced along the way. With DBG Projects now putting a difficult...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. Joining to talk us through life as Founder and Managing Director of Perth-based Classic Contractors, is Mark Stewart. Mark has issues with our industry, and he isn't afraid to spell it out: we need to get rid of retention, get our teams working in the office together, and promote the importance of connection. Sharing how CC are handling...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. Want to know what an intrapreneur is? Or how to score $13 million revenue in your first year? It’s time to meet Daniel Mikus, co-founder and co-CEO of asphalt experts MR Roads in Queensland. Daniel doesn’t beat around the bush - he wants to see the company listed on the ASX in the next three to five years. Right now - it’s all about growth,...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. It's time to learn from a Managing Director with some stories to tell about growing a company from the ground up. This week's guest is Garreth Higgins, from Offaly Civil in Queensland. Recounting his route into the industry, he shares how a few too many beers one night led to landing Offaly's first contract the next day, how h...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. It's time to face a brutal fact:  nearly 3400 construction industry businesses have gone bust in the last 18 months. Here to share his blueprint for keeping your business afloat in an increasingly difficult economic environment is Director and Head of Operations at Haddarco, Abdullah Haddara. Founded as a one-man operation by Haddara Sn...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. It's time for a masterclass from residential building business coach Mick Hawes, of Builders Business Blackbelt. He takes us through how he found his niche, and reveals how he helps great builders get better at being entrepreneurs . Revealing exercises and processes that he uses at his in-person training days, Mick brings some brilliant...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. Joining the discussion this week is hydraulic engineer and Managing Director of Sparks+Partners Consulting Engineers, Leon Dimino. Leon takes us through his rise to the top, touching on his time as Woolies youngest ever grocery manager, a terrible week on the tools as a concreter with his dad (he hung up his shovel), and his decision to beco...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. And welcome to 2025, as we rapidly approach 100 episodes... Kicking us off in the New Year is Logan Mullaney, Group CEO of the rapidly rising concrete innovators InQuik - the second Mullaney to sit in the hotseat after Logan's brother Ben back in episode #33! Logan shares his fascinating journey - from high school drop-out, to getting h...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. It's a great pleasure to welcome Jarrad Tait onto the show this week from Adelaide Hills Lawns & Gardens. Jarrad developed an early passion for the outdoors, and in the midst of enjoying stints as a cricketer in the UK he settled into seasonal landscaping work back in Australia. One thing led to another, and soon he had the tools, t...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. Tuning in from Sydney this week is Verity Construction head honcho James Clark. Since relocating from Adelaide and setting up shop on his own, Verity have been growing from strength to strength - becoming specialists in the building of childcare, schools and medical centres from design to handover. He chats about the benefits of finding thei...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. And a warm welcome to this week's guest Richard Austin, CEO of Australia's leading fire safety engineering outfit Omnii. Richard is a management expert who has spent his career rising through the ranks of numerous industries, his sights set on seniority. His wealth of insights are now on hand to help you kick forward - covering the...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. We're keeping the momentum by welcoming John Carolan into the hotseat, Founder and Director of SKOPE Constructions in New South Wales. John is here to share the rise of SKOPE, his own journey from on-site labourer to managing executive, and most importantly, the impact that a new marketing strategy has had on their business. With the he...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. We're back! And we're kicking things off again by chatting to New York State's finest electrician-entrepreneur, skilled trades advocate, professional race driver and LinkedIn commenter, Doug Winston. Doug chose his path at 18 years old, rejecting uni to follow in the footsteps of his high-earning electrician cousin. Now with 3...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. Tuning in this week from across the pond is Oregon native, and founder of the ever-growing Baldwin General Contracting, Yohn Baldwin. Yohn shares his story, from childhood life lessons growing up on a farm, to becoming a high-flying touring musician, to packing it in and utilising his range of hands-on skills to grow from solo operation to 1...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. This week's masterclass: video. Too many construction companies are either ignoring it altogether, or churning out cookie-cutter landfill that doesn't show off their business, or do anything for their company culture. So that's why we've recruited James Davies, Marketing Manager of Martin Brothers - the Brisbane landscape...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. And welcome to a fascinating approach for running a top construction business, brought to us by Maz Group Managing Director Marty Craggill. As a two-time Australian Superbike Champion, Marty learned a ton in his racing days that he believes has channelled directly into the way he runs his business. Whether it's the standard of safety, t...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. After being recommended to get him on as a guest 12 months ago, the timings have aligned, and we welcome Stephen Hill into the CIIC hot-seat. Now CEO of BildGroup, Stephen's early plans to become a commercial pilot led him into a side-hustle in construction, before re-aligning his sights, getting an engineering degree and working his wa...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. We're joined this week by Sally-ann Eather, Executive Manager of Eather Group in New South Wales. Eather Group have been popping up everywhere recently, not least because they recently won the prestigious Telstra Best of Business National Award, in the Indigenous Excellence category. Sally-ann joins today to talk us through the company&...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. Joining this week is Martin Preece from Building Environs Recruitment in Melbourne. Now, recruiters often get a bad rep. But Martin is one of the good ones, and he's here to share everything you need to know to maximise the business-recruiter relationship and scope out the best talent in the industry. This is a masterclass for employers...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. Back again with fresh momentum and more guest interviews in the pipeline, we kick things off again by chatting with Gary McLaughlin of Railtrain Holdings Group. Originally from Scotland, Gary made the move to Perth fourteen years ago to work for a huge Tier 1 operator and run big budget, multi-year projects - before electing to join Railtrai...

Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. We're now up to Episode 80! Who better to join for a conversation about the impressive rise of Silverstrand Developments than Managing Director Darren Broderick. Based in Queensland, but operating all over Australia and New Zealand, Darren joined Silverstrand in 2012 - taking the leap from Project Manager to Estimator, before coming onb...