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Retaining walls are one of the most misunderstood structures on an Australian build site. Get them right and they hold back tonnes of saturated soil for fifty years. Get them wrong and you are looking at a collapsed wall, a damaged neighbouring property, and a very expensive insurance conversation. The block you choose, and how […]
Ask any builder who has been on the tools for more than a decade and they will tell you the same thing: defects are not a sign of failure, they are a sign of construction. Concrete cracks. Timber moves. Tilers hit a bad day. Subcontractors miss a flashing detail at 4:55pm on a Friday. The […]
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If you’ve ever walked past a half-built shed, a retaining wall, or a granny flat in Australia, chances are you’ve seen a stack of grey, hollow concrete blocks waiting on a pallet. Around the country we call them besser blocks — a name so embedded in the trade that most builders forget it was originally […]
Most failed construction software rollouts you hear about at the pub aren’t really product failures. The software wasn’t broken. The features worked. The price was fine. What went wrong is the bit nobody talks about until it’s too late: onboarding. The cabinet maker who paid for two years upfront and never logged in. The framing […]
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Here’s an uncomfortable truth most Australian builders only confront after something goes wrong: the certificate of currency sitting in your bottom drawer is probably out of date, almost certainly has the wrong sum insured, and may not actually cover the type of work you’ve been doing for the last two years. Underinsurance in the construction […]
Most Australian builders we talk to are drowning in numbers. Spreadsheets, dashboards, accounting reports, project trackers, time-sheet exports – thousands of data points and almost no decisions made from any of them. The owner knows the business is busy. They feel like jobs are profitable. They hope cash will be there next week. Hope is […]
