Team Amuso

09/30/2026

We’ve worked with bricks for years, but we’d never seen them like this. 🧱

A few weeks ago we were lucky enough to get behind the scenes at Brickworks Building Products Brickworks’ Horsley Park operations, and the sheer scale of it was incredible.

We spend our lives working with the finished product, so seeing what actually happens before those bricks ever make it to site gives you a whole new appreciation for the process.

The machinery, the automation, the technology and just the sheer volume of bricks moving through this place… pretty impressive.

And yes, I took WAY too many videos, so there’s plenty more where this came from.

Want to see more behind the scenes?

09/25/2026

09/23/2026

Never underestimate where a few bricks can take you. 🧱

If you’ve been around the industry a while, there’s a good chance you know who Mark Ellenor is. If you don’t, Mark is CEO of Brickworks Building Products Brickworks, but his involvement in our industry goes well beyond the title.

After almost 27 years with Brickworks, including five years leading its North American operations, he also sits across and chairs several industry boards.

So getting to sit down with Mark over lunch, talk all things bricks and industry, then tour the Horsley Park brick and masonry operations was pretty special for us.

And the scale... 🤯 130 million bricks a year through Plant 2 alone.

Seeing what goes into a brick before it ever reaches a bricklayer’s hands gave us a whole new appreciation for the other side of our industry.

Running two businesses while raising two young kids definitely has its challenges, and life behind the scenes doesn’t always look like the highlight reel. But this one absolutely is.

This one sits right up there with the experiences and memories we’ll never forget.

Huge thanks to Mark and the Brickworks team for having us.

Pretty grateful for where bricks have taken us and our family. 🧱


DA Bricklaying DAT Tools®️

09/01/2026

What an experience! Full episode here - https://youtu.be/04wOvC20vMY

09/01/2026

WHAT. A. NIGHT. ✨

An incredible evening at the 2026 Master Builders Victoria Master Builders Victoria Excellence in Construction Awards, celebrating some of the very best people, projects and craftsmanship in our industry.

We were incredibly grateful to attend as guests of Brickworks Building Products Brickwork and spend the night connecting, celebrating and catching up with so many great people across the industry.

And it was nice to swap the work boots for black tie for a change! 🥂

A huge thank you to Josie, Cindy and the Brickworks team for having us. We never take opportunities to be in rooms like this for granted, and it was a real privilege to be there.

Congratulations to all the finalists and winners. The calibre of work being celebrated was seriously impressive.

Feeling very grateful, very inspired… and still a little blown away by the night. 🤍

08/31/2026

SYDNEY, WE’RE COMING! 👊🧱

Two weeks to go and we’re seriously pumped for this trip!

We’ve got a big few days planned in Sydney, connecting with some great people across the bricklaying and masonry industry, catching up with familiar faces, making some new connections and sharing plenty along the way.

A huge part of the trip will be joining Bricklayer Contractors Australia for their Breakfast & General Meeting, where we’re really proud to be presenting “Our Tools & Our Industry.”

We will be presenting alongside the amazing Think Brick Australia and we’ll be sharing our story, the journey behind DAT Tools, some of what we’ve learnt along the way and our insights from being part of this industry both here in Australia and overseas.

And this is only one part of what we’ve got planned while we’re in Sydney... 👀

If you’re a Sydney brickie or part of the industry, come along to the BCA breakfast or keep an eye out while we’re in town. We’d love to connect!

📍 Sydney
📅 16 September 2026
🎟️ BCA members & non-members welcome

Sydney, see you soon! 🔥

08/24/2026

08/13/2026

We didn’t submit this story. MASONRY Magazine came to us and asked us to tell it.

In case you missed it, our piece ran in the MASONRY Masonry Magazine June quarterly issue, and seeing it laid out in print, on the other side of the world, is something we’re genuinely stoked about.

Huge thanks to Tom, the Spec Mix MC we’ve known since 2019, for tracking down the digital layout so we could see how it looks for the readers.

Link in bio to read the full piece. Thanks MCAA for this opportunity to contribute, incredibly proud and grateful.

08/05/2026

Some of the best parts of this industry happen away from site.

We know we’ve been a little quiet on here lately, life and work have had us flat out, but there are a lot of updates on the way, so bear with us.

In the meantime, Tara was a guest of Brickworks Building Products Brickworks at the HIA Vic - Residential building industry news, training & events Building Women Lunch this week, and it was one of those days that’s a good reminder of how much value there is in just being present and connected across the industry. Brickworks have backed us for years, right back to our early Team Amuso days through to where things are now, and it’s always genuinely good conversation when we catch up with their team.

Guest speaker Chelsea Roffey shared her story on the day. She played a part in getting maternity leave introduced for AFL umpires, which lands a bit differently as a family that’s built around the trade and the kids growing up alongside it. She also spoke on diversity more broadly, on what it takes to pioneer space in a non-traditional domain. Fitting, given how much of our own journey has been exactly that.

07/10/2026

We’ve followed James Starbuck’s journey for a long time, watching him build something honest, real and raw.

Next Wednesday, Damian and I are heading into the studio to record with the legend himself for Jimmy Talks Construction. As far as we know, we’ll be the first bricklayers he’s had on the show.

We’re grateful for the invitation and genuinely looking forward to meeting him in person. Expect bricklaying, business, the trade, family, all of it. Nothing’s off the table.

If there’s something you want us to ask or bring up on the day, drop it in the comments. We’ll do our best to get to it.

Pumped for this one! ✊