The Daily Dose #182 | Inside JG King’s 40-Year Rise: Steel Frames, Eight-Star Homes and the Leadership Philosophy Every Builder Should Hear
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John King does not do headlines. He does the work.
In this episode, we sit down with the Managing Director of JG King Homes, one of Victoria’s most respected family-owned builders. Across four decades, the King family has built a business that covers the entire state, pioneered steel framing, survived every cycle, and now leads the charge on eight-star energy rated homes at no extra cost.
John takes us inside that journey — from painting welds in the steel plant as a teenager to overseeing one of Australia’s most vertically integrated and future-focused building companies.
We unpack how JG King’s early move into steel frames shaped their entire identity, how a complete reinvention of their window technology pushed them into true high-performance homes, and why their culture of “grow your own people” has kept them strong for 40 years.
For builders, suppliers and anyone who wants to understand what real long-term thinking looks like in construction, this is one of the most insightful conversations we have ever recorded on The Good Builder.
Listen in and learn from one of the industry’s quiet giants.
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