Crushing It In Construction

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name is Jordan Skinner, I am your host,  and this week I'm chatting with Jason Zafiriadis, the Chief Commercial Officer of Earth Friendly Concrete.  And in this episode, Jason and I dive into sustainability within construction and how companies can help reduce the carbon footprint of our industry. We also talk abo...

Hello everybody,  and welcome to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name is Jordan Skinner, I am your host,  and this week I'm chatting with John Fusco from Fusco Constructions in South Australia. Fusco Constructions has been around for a very long time and they are a well-respected family-run company here in South Australia. And in this episode, I talk wi...

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast,  I'm Jordan Skinner,  I'm your host, and this week I'm chatting with Peter Wilkinson from SamWilko Advisory. Peter's been in and around the construction game for over 30 years and today he helps business leaders and senior managers by building business capability In  bid manageme...

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast, my name's Jordan Skinner, I'm your host. And this week I'm chatting with Lisa Kinross, CEO of the Civil Contractors Federation in Victoria. In this episode, Lisa and I talk about all sorts of different stuff, including how companies can better transfer knowledge between generations wi...

Hello everybody and welcome to episode 24 of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name is Jordan Skinner, I'm your host, and this week I'm chatting with Simon Gorman from Reeves Envico.   And in this episode we're talking about taking on international work, something Simon and his team pretty much did straight out of the gate when they started the company. Now, in my head, I...

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name's Jordan Skinner, I'm your host,  and this week I'm chatting with Adrian Panozzo from the Civil Contractors Federation in Victoria. Now, all of us understand that mental health within the construction industry is a massive issue. You can't walk down the street in the worl...

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name's Jordan Skinner, I'm your host  and this week I'm chatting with Matthew Glascott from Glasscott Landscape and Civil. Matt has an extremely interesting story because while he was building a hugely successful landscaping company he was also venturing out into other businesses l...

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name is Jordan Skinner,  I'm your host, and this week I'm chatting with Caytlyn  Mead, the CEO of the Robinson Civil Group. The Robinson Civil Group is a family business that's experienced a huge amount of growth over the last few years, and now they have roughly 80 full-time staff...

Hello everybody and welcome to episode number 20 of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name is Jordan Skinner, I'm your host,  and this week I am chatting to Scott Clements from Inertia Engineering.  In this episode, Scott and I talk about how companies can more effectively communicate their value. This is a really important topic because the companies that do a really great job of c...

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name is Jordan Skinner, I'm your host and this week I am chatting with Phil Chapman, Managing Director of CMW Geosciences.  Now, CMW  is spread across Australia and New Zealand with over 200 people and I thought it would be good to chat with Phil because they've recently added a people...

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name is Jordan Skinner, I'm your host, and this week I'm chatting with Shivendra Kumar. Shiv is a business advisor and he specializes in helping small - medium sized construction companies maximize their growth potential.  He is also the host of the Competitive Contractor podcast.  Now...

Hello everybody and welcome back to this week's episode of Crushing It In Construction. My name is Jordan Skinner, I am your host, and this week I am chatting with Michelle Blicavs from the Association Of Consulting Surveyors. Michelle is the CEO of the association and in this episode we talk about how effectively telling your company's story can really help to attract and retain more hi...

Welcome to this week's episode of Crushing It In Construction. My name's Jordan Skinner, I am your host, and this week I am chatting to Jarrad Clift from Lucid Consulting. Jarrad is the CEO of Lucid and in this episode, we talk about his journey and how he actually became the CEO.  Lucid started off as a relatively small operation based out of Adelaide, but today they have over 250 peopl...

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. I'm your host, Jordan Skinner, and this week I am chatting to Grant Hailes of Beveridge Williams. Grant is the managing director of Beveridge Williams and he has worked at the company for pretty much his entire career. In that time, he's obviously seen all of the company's up's a...

Hello everybody and welcome back to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. I'm your host Jordan Skinner, and this week I'm chatting with Gerry Doyle from Tonkin Engineering.  Now, right out of the gate, I'd just like to thank Gerry for his patience when recording this episode, because we had to actually record the entire thing twice due to some technica...

Hello everybody and welcome back to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. I'm your host Jordan Skinner, and this week I am chatting to Dion Killiby from Western Project Services. Dion has a really interesting story, he comes from a family of writers and academics and he said that he was kind of the black sheep in the family and that doing things like starting a...

Hello everybody and welcome back to this week's episode of Crushing It In Construction. My name's Jordan Skinner,  I am your host and this week I'm speaking with the CEO of the Australian Constructors Association, John Davies. John and I had a really cool conversation and I enjoyed our time together. We touched on a range of topics, including things like, why are we seeing so many i...

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name is Jordan Skinner, I am your host, and this week I'm speaking with Dawn Watt. Dawn has a really interesting journey, she is originally from Canada and she moved to Newcastle just over 20 years ago and she is now the CEO of Coffey Testing. But she never actually intended on becoming a CE...

Hello everybody and welcome back to episode number 10 of the Crushing It In Construction podcast. My name is Jordan Skinner, I am your host and this week I had the pleasure of speaking with Susie Pascoe. Susie is the group managing director of Sterling Infrastructure, and Sterling is a leading provider of asset management services to the transport infrastructure sector.  Susie and her husband purc...

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction podcast. I'm your host Jordan Skinner, and this week I'm speaking to Philip Byrum from Orion Consulting. Phillip is the director of Orion consulting and,  he only started the business in 2015 and they are already at over 80 people and they are buying businesses as well. In this episode, Philip and I talk about some of th...

Hello Everybody and welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. This week I'm speaking with Michael Hatton. Michael is the founder and managing director of Total Surveying Solutions based in Sydney. Michael is a really interesting guy and in this episode we talk about his career. We also talk about some of the struggles that he faced in the beginning, trying to get the business o...

Hello everybody, and welcome back to the crushing it in construction podcast. In this weeks episode, I'm talking to Kari Armitage. Kari is the managing director of Quarry Mining. Based out of New South Wales. Kari has a very interesting story. She started off in civil engineering as a cadet, working for a civil engineering consulting firm. She then was asked by her father to come back and hel...

Hello everybody and welcome to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! This week I am speaking with Jeremy Palmer from Quattro Project Engineering and I talk to him about his journey and some of the challenges he went through growing the business. He touches on some of the various stages the company went through while growing and tells us why the desire to truly help and empower your employees is...

Hello everybody and welcome to the “Crushing It In Construction” podcast. In this weeks episode we are chatting with Tony Guidera, the director of Guidera O'Connor, a company that specializes in delivering water treatment, wastewater treatment and pump station projects for councils and the government sector. In this episode he shares how he grew the business to nearly 200 people and shares so...

Hello and welcome to “Crushing it in Construction” podcast In today’s episode, we have the pleasure of talking to Kate Burrows. She is the founder and Managing Director of the Tender Training College and is passionate about helping people to improve their tendering skills and to secure their futures. Kate has more than 15 years of experience in tendering, and has helped clients win more than $25 b...