Australia builds half as many homes per hour worked as it did in 1995. The rest of the economy went up 49%. If the whole economy had performed like housing, the average Australian income would be about 41% lower.

Australia is in a housing crisis. Tim Volkman wants to build us out of it with robots.

Tim Volkman is the co-founder of 3D Construction QLD, the Brisbane-based licensed builder behind Australia's first multi-storey 3D printed home. In this Emeka Conversations episode, Tim sits down with Emeka Edwin to unpack why a cheap iPhone has more technology in it than the rockets that put a man on the moon, while bricklayers in 2026 are still doing the same job the exact same way they did in 1996.