Send Martin & the team a Text message In this week's podcast episode, we talk with Dr. Natalie Galea – Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Adjunct Senior Lecturer at The University of New South Wales, and former Australian Olympian! After representing Australia at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in Judo, she worked in the construction industry for 15 years until 2015; a career that took her through Australia, North Africa, and the Middle East - delivering large-scale buildi...
Sep 06, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message In this podcast episode, we talked with Alice Hanna – People and Culture Manager at Kapitol Group. Alice has recently been nominated for Australian and HR Manager of the Year and has worked tirelessly to have helped Kapitol Group pick up #1 Best Places to Work in Australia for 2022! She knows her stuff! Alice gives us her insights on the importance of the role of people and culture in the business, creating a good culture within a large builder and the s...
Aug 23, 2022•1 hr•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message In this week's podcast, we talk with Gemma Nugent – the principal lawyer at SoundLegal. She is a construction, engineering and consulting contract specialist. Gemma holds a unique perspective on the Construction & Property industry, having worked extensively with subcontractors, contractors, principals and consultants on major infrastructure, construction and consulting projects in both the private and public sector. Gemma started her legal care...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message In this podcast episode, we talked with Barry Laycock - Director of Slattery, a national Quantity Surveying firm based in Melbourne. Barry give us his expert opinion of the strong fundamental position of the Melbourne Construction & Property Sector and some insight into the pressures currently faced by the industry. In addition, we discuss the important function Quantity Surveying plays through design and project de-risking, the differences between t...
Jul 26, 2022•59 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message In this week's podcast, we talk with Aaron McEwan – a Psychologist, Business Coach, Strategic Advisor, and Vice President for Research & Advisory at Gartner, a specialist consulting organization within the HR space. Aaron is about as well placed a specialist as anyone in Australia to discuss the future of work conditions in a post pandemic world and relate his knowledge to the Construction and Property industries. We spoke at length about Hybrid...
Jul 12, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message In this podcast episode, we talked with Marty Sadlier - Founding Director & Owner of MCG Quantity Surveyors, a national Quantity Surveying firm with nine offices around Australia. We talked about cost inflation, insurance, and issues relating to Australian properties with a bit of focus on the residential home building market. We also spoke about the perfect storm of cost escalations and his feedback on when we can expect prices to slow down in the b...
Jun 28, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message In this week's podcast, we talk with Nathan Theos, a well-known construction professional who has worked for large Tier one organisations like Probuild, Multiplex, and Built. He’s also the Managing Director at Construction Collaborative, his own company. We spoke about his view on the D&C contract, ECI and competitively tendered projects, combative relationships in Construction and how to resolve them, managing challenging projects (including We...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message In this podcast episode, we talked with David Down - a vastly experienced Senior Estimator who has worked within some of Melbourne's most iconic builders and currently pricing some of the largest towers hitting our skyline at Crema Group. We spoke about how he started his career in the construction industry, his experiences in estimating, and how he became a well-renowned Estimator. We also talked about his previous projects, the pressures and chall...
May 31, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message In this podcast episode, we talk with Mark Pomeroy - of Pomeroy Pacific, one of Australia's premier development and project management firms with 52 years of funding and delivering successful projects. We spoke about his experiences in running their family business successfully, the peaks and troughs, the diverse projects they have been a part of, and got into the detail managing risks within the construction and development space. Amongst other thi...
May 12, 2022•59 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message In this week's podcast, we talk with Jason Folino - joint Victorian State Manager at Buildcorp Interiors, a leading Fit-out and Refurbishment contracts across the East Coast of Australia. We cover his experiences as a business leader through the Covid lockdowns in Melbourne whilst covering culture, leadership and teams - including some of the projects that Buildcorp have delivered such as their 2021 Master Builders Victoria ‘Excellence in Constructi...
May 03, 2022•57 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message In this week's podcast, we talk with Andrew Pettenon, Director/Owner of RMB Design. Andrew has a unique background in the construction industry starting off within on-site roles working for Mirvac and Icon then being (arguably) the first Design Manager in the Melbourne commercial building industry. We spoke about the issues and problems relating to contracts - specifically Design & Construct contracts, getting KPI's and deliverables right, ...
Apr 19, 2022•59 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message In this week's podcast, we talk with Seamus Egan, New Business Manager here in Melbourne for Besix Watpac - the international Construction and Engineering Group. Seamus has a wealth of building project experience, from London to Melbourne - he has worked on and delivered a significant number of projects running into hundreds of millions. We talk about his career in the industry, how it started, how it's progressed. About teams and projects, and...
Apr 05, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message In this week's podcast, we talk with Jefa Greenaway - who describes himself as Aboriginal, Advocate, Academic and Architect (he explains more in the podcast). He is a well known thought leader in the Indigenous design advancement into the built environment and a really engaging professional to speak with and learn from. Of course he is well known as the Director of Greenaway Architects an award-winning architectural practice and a Qantas 100 Inspiri...
Mar 01, 2022•52 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message This week I was jointed by Sarah Louise Jackson, who has spent the last 25 years capturing the images of Melbourne's iconic buildings, the skyline and projects that have been delivered across the built environment. Sarah works on behalf of builders, developers, architects and building owners to capture images of their buildings and building projects - documenting for us, the beauty and complexity of the built environment through images, time lapse, ...
Dec 21, 2021•51 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message In this week's episode we talk with Peter Mercoulia (Jnr) who, along with his Brother and Cousin are taking over the reins of the succesful tier 3 commercial builder, Merkon Construction. Originally founded by Peter Mercoulia (Snr) and Jim Mercoulia - the brothers who founded the business 35 years ago, the 'new generation' of the family are redefining a succesful Melbourne builder and refining the organisation to meet the constant evolutio...
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message In this weeks podcast we talk with John Vilas-Boas, Managing Director of Level 10. Level 10 are a Melbourne based townhouse builder who partner with developers to build communities across the Melbourne metro region. John has worked hard to cultivate a company with strong values and create a culture to deliver quality construction projects and create an environment where employees, clients and suppliers work together to add value to one another to deliver...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message This week on The Building Talks podcast we caught up with Luke Mackintosh, of EY (Ernst & Young). Luke has over 20 years in the Corporate Real Estate Advisory space, leads the market on Built to Rent and heads up an Award Winning Advisory Team. Built to Rent has become a widely reported building project here Melbourne with more and more developments being announced; this asset class is almost certain to have an impact on the Melbourne Skyline and we&...
Nov 16, 2021•58 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message This week we talk with Sarah Slattery. Sarah is the Managing Director of Slattery, Melbourne's leading Quantity Surveying and Cost Planning consultancy with offices across Australia. We discuss Sarah's career and Slattery's 40 years in the industry, business culture, managing teams and people through Covid and workplace flexibility. We also touch upon her postion and responsibilities as the first Woman Managing Director in a QS consulting ...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message This week we talk with Sarah Valentine who is a business leadership, coach and behavioural profiler who works for a number of businesses in the building and development industry here in Melbourne. This week we uncover the definitions of: Business Culture and how to define your business culture The importance of Values within a business and their effect Leadership and the effects of poor leadership The challenges of Working From Home and maintaining a pos...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message This week’s episode we have Hannah Clement who is the group head of Civic Infrastructure at Development Victoria; currently overseeing the team delivering the $1 Billion, Melbourne Arts Precinct. Hannah has already had an enviable career. Setting out as an Engineer, she successfully transitioned into Project Management and has, for the last 10 years or so, been back in Melbourne delivering some of our most well known civil projects. Her experience spans ...
Oct 02, 2021•55 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Send Martin & the team a Text message Today we talk with Brett Howlett, the Project Director of the $500m Seafarers project being developed by the Melbourne Developer, Riverlee - recognisable to Melburnian's by the historically significant 'Malcolm Moore Crane' which was originally built in 1948 and acknowledged as part of the most intact cargo berth in the Port of Melbourne from the pre-containerisation era. We discuss property development in Melbourne and what the future of ...
Sep 16, 2021•49 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast 
