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The Daily Dose #246 | From Single Mum to QBCC Licence Holder: Bec Askin on Grit, Modular Building, and Doing It Anyway
Episode 246
Published 2 months, 1 week ago
Description
Bec Askin didn't plan to be in construction. It just became her life. And then she made it her own.
In this episode, I sit down with Bec from Adapt Modular (a division of Campbell Construction Co.) to talk about her 25 years in the industry, studying for her QBCC licence while raising two kids solo during COVID, and why she's now heading up a modular building division doing work that genuinely matters.
We talk about:
- How Bec went from admin to licence holder while doing it all on her own
- The barriers women still face on site (and why it's more about acceptance than it is about progress)
- What Adapt Modular is building and who they're building it for (including a disabled bathroom for a school two hours north of Birdsville)
- Why long service leave for admin workers is broken and needs fixing
- The NCC, modular building codes, and why the industry is fighting with itself over prefab
- What a good builder actually looks like (Bec's answer is one we've never heard before)
Bec is the kind of person who doesn't make a big deal of what she's done. I had to push her to tell the story properly.
Worth the listen.
#constructionindustry #builderlife #womeninconstruction #buildingbusiness
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