Meet the Director
Meet Kyle Zanetto, the visionary founder of Zanetto Builders and Tasmanian Young Builder of the Year 2023. His love for the building industry is unwavering and he is on a mission to redefine the building industry through education and collaboration.
Kyle is leading a team of skilled tradesman individuals where a world of luxury homes and cutting-edge Passive House design converge.
As the driving force behind Zanetto Builders, Kyle's commitment to innovation and environmental consciousness has propelled the company to the forefront of the luxury and healthy home market in Tasmania. With a keen eye for detail and unwavering dedication to quality, Kyle has an unyielding commitment to the culture and growth of those around him. Kyle Zanetto has established a legacy that brings together like-minded individuals to push toward a common goal. In his spare time, he loves to remain active and spend time with his two beautiful dogs at the beach.
Young Builder of the Year · 2023
Six years from first job to the state's Young Builder of the Year.
Kyle took Master Builders Tasmania's Young Builder of the Year in 2023, six years after founding Zanetto Builders and while still in his twenties. It is an award for the person rather than the building — judged on business management, leadership and contribution to the industry, not on a single house.
The path there was not a straight one. He worked in a supermarket from the age of fourteen, started a carpentry apprenticeship at sixteen, spent four years finishing the trade, then two more studying business before starting the company in 2017 at twenty-four.
What the judges were looking at was the way the business runs: open-book pricing with the margin published, a 48-hour feasibility so nobody commits to a build blind, and a 35-step process put on the website in full rather than summarised into six vague ones.
Since then: 29 state and national building awards, a team of 38 across three Tasmanian offices, and thirteenCertified Passive House Tradespersons — the largest certified team in the state. He still sketches his own concepts by hand, and still writes about what he is learning.
He also has a deep passion for design, having personally sketched and built two nationally recognized award-winning homes. To bring this vision to life Kyle has created a new term and business called DARKITECTURE, showcasing the construction of dark toned projects.
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As part of his mission to change the building industry, Kyle has a passion for teaching his learning to others. Kyle has co-founded an online educational platform calledFuture Builder, designed to improve the lives of those in the construction industry, teaching his learnings to others.
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Accredited August 2026
HIA GreenSmart® Professional.
Kyle completed the Housing Industry Association'sGreenSmart® Professionaltraining in August 2026 — the HIA's sustainable-building program for builders and designers, covering energy, water, materials and siting. It sits alongside hisPassive House Institute certificationin both building envelope and building services.
Separately, and not to be confused with it: homes built by this team won three national titles at the 2026 HIA Australian GreenSmart Awards, including GreenSmart Home of the Year.
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Kyle leads the team behind 26 industry awards, including national recognition, and the certified Passive House team — Tasmania's Passive House building experts — that delivered Bluebush, one of Tasmania's first certified Passive House homes, independently verified at 10 kWh/m²·yr.
The philosophy is simple and public: build once, build properly, and show the client every number along the way — open-book, from the 48-hour feasibilityto handover.
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