ECO Builders history

Rockefeller Center (1932) utilized both operable windows and sky gardens.

The history of green building dates back much further than the 1970’s.

In early 1980’s, Tony and Lyn Carter, founders of Eco Sustainable Homes, renovated an old home and then designed and built their own first home from mud brick in Central Victoria.

In the early 1990’s Tony and Lyn moved on to research Rammed Earth as a medium and travelled to WA, where at the time Rammed Earth had been utilised for many years; In 1990 25% of all new building permits were for Rammed Earth homes in Margaret River.

Tony became a registered builder in 1992, and began trading as Rammed Earth Enterprises, a small boutique company specialising in Rammed Earth Dwellings.

2. Office of the Federal Environmental Executive, “The Federal Commitment to Green Building: Experiences and Expectations,” 18 September 2003.

Wilson, Alex. “Your Green Home: A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly New Home.” (New Society Publishers, 2006).

In 2012 the business was split and Tony and Lyn now trade with Eco Sustainable Homes Pty Ltd as the registered building business and with Rammed Earth Enterprises Pty Ltd. as the subcontracting Rammed Earth wall building business.

buildeco was set up in 2013 to bring to the market a variety of modular eco-design based house types to meet the expanding self-build and custom-build market.