Luxury residential
Contemporary and natural water environments for water-centric lifestyles, with sound, movement, lighting and fire for day and night moods.
2023 Pinnacle Award winner
Water. Well Done. From Driftwood, Texas.
Pools, spas and water environments designed and built across the Hill Country.
Ebbn Milks, President & Founder
Light, fire, sound and motion.
“Form and function must work hand in hand while incorporating the elements of a complete design: light, fire, sound and motion.”
Ebbn started in the pool industry in 1998, cleaning pools for a summer job, and moved the company to Aqua Builders in 2010. Every project is treated as a piece of art work, built in balance with function and efficiency.
The Aqua Builders storyLight
Drawn for noon and for nine at night
Exterior lighting design and installation sits inside the construction scope, beside the water, so a rooftop pool reads as well under a hard Austin sun as it does once the palms are uplit.
Fire
Flame set against water
Fire features are built alongside the water features, interactive water and lighting elements, part of how ambient day and night moods are made rather than an add-on at the end.
Sound
Copper scuppers into a dark pool
Scuppers, rain curtains, fountains and creeks. Sound and movement are considered while the pool is still a drawing, so the water you hear from the house is a decision, not an accident.
Motion
Water that people play in
Splash pads, lazy rivers, waterslides, water rides and multi-level play structures. Aqua Builders is one of the few firms in the country that designs, builds and maintains them.
Do you design the pool as well as build it?
Yes, and look after it once it is full. Design, engineering coordination, construction and monthly maintenance are one team, run from one office on FM 150 in Driftwood.
Commercial and hospitality
Hotels, resorts, condo developments, master planned communities and baptismal pools, from the urban core to lakeside and hill country.
Interactive water and amenity centers
One of the few firms in the country that designs, builds and maintains splash pads, lazy rivers, water rides and waterslides.
Design and consulting
2D and 3D perspective work, Revit modeling with BIM clash detection, full CAD sets and master planning with every engineering discipline.
Construction planning and implementation
Survey and layout, excavation, architectural and structural concrete, masonry, hydronics, civil and rain reclamation, metal work and lighting.
Maintenance and renovation
Full-service monthly pool maintenance, phased installation and cosmetic or full renovations of existing pools.
Wellness
Water chemistry done properly, plus home wellness: steam and digital shower systems, stainless steel pools and hydrotherapy spas.
Google, 4.5 from 8 reviews
From design to after completion.
“We love our pool and all its cool features! Aqua Builders was fast, professional, attentive to detail, and we are amazed with their design and the beautiful pool they built. You always can call or text from design to after completion of pool.”
Westlake cliffside
One hillside, four kinds of water.
A residence built down a limestone bluff: an upper pool and spa off the lawn, a cliff wall of hand-laid stone, and a grotto pool fed by the water falling past it.
Named job, East Austin
The Carpenter Hotel, Austin.
A vintage oasis enclosed by a grove of heritage pecan trees and terra cotta barriers in the heart of ATX. Aqua Builders worked with the local design team on an outdoor space that matched the boutique hotel while keeping the bones of the mid century modern property intact.
- Development
- The Mighty Union
- Architect
- Specht Architects
- General contractor
- DPR Construction
- Pool
- Aqua Builders
2023
Pinnacle Award
Luxury Pools + Outdoor Living, for “Waterfront Elegance”: multiple pools, fire features, a rain curtain and a sculptural fountain.
Hotels and resorts
- The Fairmont Austin, pool and spa
- East Austin Hotel
- The Plaza San Antonio Hotel & Spa
- The Saint Vincent Hotel, New Orleans
- The Reserve at Lake Travis
- TAMU, College Station
As seen in
Vogue · Architectural Digest · Texas Monthly · Austin Monthly · Mansion Global · Modern Luxury Interiors Texas · Paper City
Press and client letters1998
Ebbn’s first pool construction company
2010
The company becomes Aqua Builders
Hill Country, lakeside, downtown.
Around thirty residential builds, from Tarrytown remodels to Lake Austin and Westlake cliffsides, and pools on Austin rooftops.
Where the water has gone
Bring the site. We will bring the water.
- Lake Austin
- Lake Travis
- West Lake Hills
- Tarrytown
- Rollingwood
- Barton Creek
- Clarksville
- Driftwood
- San Antonio
- College Station
- New Orleans
Call the office or send a few lines about the property. One of our project managers will contact you about beginning the proposal process.
18992 FM 150, Suite 103, Driftwood, TX 78619 · Mon-Fri 9am-5pm