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Luka Noad

Luka Noad

Third-year building apprentice at Builders Academy NZ; podcast guest on Better Builder Podcast

May 28, 2026

17:48
Yeah.
17:48
And then, um, yeah, you get your books and we do our theory.
17:52
So you, every six weeks you get assessed on your theory.
17:56
It'll be like retaining walls, you know, like what height does it need to be and all that.
18:01
And then your skills percentage of your apprenticeship is through your boss and your assessor.
18:46
And then what do you feel like after year one? Do you feel like, you know, after year one looking back, do you kinda go like, "Yeah, I feel like I've learned a lot," and m- Or do you feel like you're not getting anywhere? Like, what is, what is that sort of feeling like?
18:57
I think year one you're quite, it's easy to adapt, like, the mindset that you're just there to do, like, the simple jobs, fixing, digging a hole.
19:06
And I think once you realize that it's actually all part of it and it's how the team operates and what needs to go into build these houses-

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