Custom homes and renovations across Canberra and surrounding areas.

New builds, knockdown rebuilds, extensions and renovations.

One licensed builder on your site from the first meeting to the final coat.

NSW Builder Licence 457516C, Unrestricted

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ABN
15 983 290 067

ACT Builder Licence 2024343, Class A

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One builder.

One contact.

End to end.

Hi, and welcome to Aspire Construction's website. I’m Mahdi Shanyar, a licensed builder in the ACT and New South Wales, and I work with a small group of trusted trades I have used for many years.

I keep it personally managed and focused on purpose, four to five homes a year, by choice. It means the person who priced your house is the person on site answering for it, every day, until you are settled in it.

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Recent work

Hear from our clients and trusted architects

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Aspire, gets an A+ from us. Cool, calm and collected and that’s just the beginning.


The team offer sound advice and guidance to put you at ease with the works to be undertaken. The projects run smoothly and on time, with all subcontractors and materials organised meticulously by them to meet the deadline.


It’s always a pleasure to have them come and do work for us, knowing you can trust them and also be confident in the work when completed. A friendly bunch to boot!!

– Craig M.

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We’ve worked with the team from Aspire Construction on many projects, ranging from complex renovations to new homes. Their dedicated approach to on-site management and long-term relationships with trades ensures all our projects are completed to a very high standard.

We look forward to continuing our collaboration to deliver wonderful projects for our clients.

– Tash B.

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I just wanted to say again how very happy I am with the work you and your team have undertaken in our home. It has made such a difference to us both, and we are beyond grateful to you all for your care and attention, as well as the quality of your workmanship. And thank you for accommodating our – sometimes difficult in terms of timing – many requests. You all worked so smoothly and seamlessly, and it is now truly a joy for me to walk into the bathroom, along the corridor, even just in the front door. I cannot thank you enough.

- Liz DT.

A builder's licence, the long way round

Before Aspire, there were ten years in the army, including officer training at Duntroon. Then years of hands on building work for other reputable builders, learning the trade the right way. Then his own licence. The discipline came first. Everything else came after.

Read Mahdi's Story

How a build actually runs

Nobody hands you a set of drawings and leaves you to work it out on your own. Here is how a build runs, from the first conversation to well after you have the keys.

01

Initial consultation 

Bring the block, the drawings, or just the idea.

02

Cost plan development

Broken down trade package by trade package, before you sign.

03

Project plan

Mapped stage by stage, so you know what is coming.

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Come and have a look at the work

The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. If you have drawings, bring them. If you have not started, that is fine too.