A completed JKC custom home at dusk — wide verandahs and timber entry
Family-Owned · Townsville & Western Queensland

Building and Renovating Since 1972.

Major residential and commercial builders across North and Western Queensland — house lifts, renovations, custom homes and commercial.

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50+Years
Family-Owned
  • QBCC Licensed
    & Insured
  • MBA
    Award-Winning
  • Master
    Builders QLD
  • Owner-Led
    Every Project
What We Do

Built for the heavy lifting.

House lifts, major renovations, custom new homes and commercial builds across North and Western Queensland — the structural, complex work most builders avoid. If it needs engineering before it needs paint, it's ours.

  1. Proper planning
  2. Real engineering
  3. One point of contact
A house standing high on steel props above an excavated pad, mid-raise
Montgomery StRaised and held on steel while the lower level goes in
What We Build

Four things, done properly.

We don't just build new homes — our team is experienced in restoring and extending on the existing. Find the project closest to yours.

All services
A Queenslander standing high on steel props above an excavated pad, mid-raise

House Raising & Build-Under
A living area stripped back to the timber frame with new louvres and steel roof battens installed

Major Renovations & Extensions
A completed custom home at golden hour, seen across the lawn

Custom New Homes
The Flinders Discovery Centre — a JKC commercial build

Commercial Building
A completed JKC custom home — the entry, verandah posts and garden at dusk

View Our Work
Patrick and Reiannan Kenna with their three sons in the garden
John Kenna, who started JKC Building in Winton in 1972John Kenna · Winton, 1972
Two generations · est. 1972

Built across generations

A building company should still be there when the job is finished.

John Kenna started building in Winton in 1972. 54 years on it's still 100% family-owned — run by Patrick and Reiannan Kenna, in amongst raising their three sons — with the accountability that comes from putting your family name on the project.

Meet the family behind JKC

Builds from Townsville across North and Western Queensland — about 650 kilometres by road along the route shown.

Where we build

Townsville is home. The west is where we grew up.

TownsvilleHome base · est. 1972
via Charters Towers
Hughenden≈ 380 km
Richmond≈ 495 km
Julia Creek≈ 650 km

Distance changes the logistics. Not the standard.

The work has always gone further than Townsville. You can't improvise supply chains, trade scheduling or site access from 600 kilometres away — we've been doing it long enough to know what matters, across the region and remote. Distances shown are approximate road kilometres from Townsville.

Where we've built
What Clients Say

In their words, not ours.

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  • ★★★★★

    Patrick and team worked with us to renovate & extend our 35 year old home in accordance with building plans that we provided. The entire team were: Great to work with, professionalism A+++, accommodating/flexible regarding changes. Our home renovation/extension project was completed on time and within budget. I highly recommend JKC Building be considered to others.

    Trevor DutchGoogle review
  • ★★★★★

    We had an overall good experience with Pat and he's team from JKC, any issues that arose it was never too much trouble to deal with. He completed our house in a quick and timely manner and to high standards. would recommend him for any of your building needs.

    Olivia RutherfordGoogle review

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If the project's the right fit, we'd like to hear from you.

We're not the right builder for every job — and we'd rather be upfront about that than waste your time. Start with a conversation about what you're trying to build.

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