I was out at our Moore Street site in Cambridge today. We’ve just passed the pre-floor plumbing inspection—shout out to the Waipā District Council Building Consent Team for being practical and helpful. Now we’re ready to pour the slabs next week.

In the meantime, the boys are flat out tying steel between the polystyrene pods. It’s proper back-breaking work. None of them love it, but it’s absolutely critical. This stage might not look flashy, but it’s the foundation—literally—for everything else.

The pods you see here are for insulation, but they also help form the slab. So they reduce the amount of concrete needed and they make the homes warmer and more efficient. They’re both insulation and a key building element.

Respect to the crew on the ground doing the real work. This is what it takes to get houses built. Governments don’t build houses. Policies don’t build houses. Even developers don’t build houses—I wasn’t out there on my hands and knees today.

The tradies do the work! The builders, plumbers, sparkies, roofers, landscapers, earthworks crews, and all the other people involved—putting in the physical labour and skilled work that’s essential.

I’m lucky to have a great team. And this is one of the reasons I keep building—because I enjoy creating. I enjoy working together with good people, skilled people, to make something real. Something that matters.

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