Trade Up Building Innovation Expo for Sustainability
Trade Up Building Innovation Expo for Sustainability
AKA 'TUBIES'
(Formerly known as the Trade Up Cup)
Saturday 18 October 2025
URBNSURF SYDNEY, NSW
Surfer tickets grant you full access to the whole event and include 60 minutes of surfing as part of the competition. Participant tickets don’t include surfing, but provide access to all other aspects of the day including the participant pack worth hundreds of dollars.
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$100 Off Early Bird Tickets Until the End of February!
Are you a tradie who loves nothing more than getting piped after dropping tools for the day? Then this is the event for you!
Bring your surfboard, boog, hand plane, whatever your craft, you're welcome. Join the state’s best tradies and frothiest surfers throwing buckets in URBNSURF's wave pool and building the future at this exclusive Surfers for Climate event.
The icing on the cake? Jed and Vaughan from the Ain't That Swell Podcast will be hosting the day and delivering a live podcast just for you. Ya Keeding?!
Grab your mates or join a team to go head-to-head in crowning the ultimate surf tradie team.
What’s in store:
- Surf heats in the wave pool
- A sustainable building expo
- Ain't That Swell live podcast
- Ice-cold beers
- Thousands of dollars’ worth of prizes from our sponsors
Don’t wait! Snag $100 off early bird tickets for our 2025 events, but only until the end of February. Get in quick and secure your spot today!
Surf ya brains out for an hour with ya crew
That's right - every surfer ticket holder gets 60 minutes of pool time to shred! Your individual score will add to you teams overall success. Top male and female performances take the glory - so get training!
Ain't that swell podcast live
Ain't That Swell with Jed Smith and Vaughan Blakey will be capturing all the action with a live edition of the podcast. You know what they're all about. It's gonna be massive and full of laughs. They're also going to host a special Salty Brains Trivia during the day as part of the competition format. You're keeeeding?!
OTHER IMPORTANT INFO:
Teams
Join as an individual; your scores reflect your individual effort but contribute to your team. Rally your colleagues, gather your mates, and form a powerhouse team of 4 surfers.
Parking
There’s 2 hours of free parking available, but it gets quite expensive after that. Be sure to validate your parking ticket at URBNSURF or Applejack. Since this is an all-day event, we recommend using Uber or other rideshare services for convenience.
Children
This event may not be suitable for children.
Refund Policy
No refunds. Tickets can be swapped, please update the name on the ticket to the new attendee.