Mindful Builder · Matthew Carland and Hamish White
The future of training and education in the building industry
August 24, 2025·38 min·4 clips
A builder expresses the core frustration of the industry: "The answers are there," but implementing change feels impossibly slow and hard.
As heard by us
A blunt look at why the building pipeline still leaves people unready for the work ahead.
Mindful Builder frames the apprenticeship problem as a practical industry argument. Three builders press Trent on why the system still feels stuck as the way people build, what workers need, and who the industry supports keep changing.
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