diff --git a/gulpfile.js b/gulpfile.js
index 17b068e1ac..636ff3ab73 100644
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ var path = require('path');
 var gulpTraceur = require('./tools/transpiler/gulp-traceur');
 var clean = require('./tools/build/clean');
 var transpile = require('./tools/build/transpile');
-var html = require('./tools/build/html');
 var pubget = require('./tools/build/pubget');
 var linknodemodules = require('./tools/build/linknodemodules');
 var pubbuild = require('./tools/build/pubbuild');
@@ -18,7 +17,6 @@ var dartanalyzer = require('./tools/build/dartanalyzer');
 var jsserve = require('./tools/build/jsserve');
 var pubserve = require('./tools/build/pubserve');
 var rundartpackage = require('./tools/build/rundartpackage');
-var copy = require('./tools/build/copy');
 var file2moduleName = require('./tools/build/file2modulename');
 var karma = require('karma').server;
 var minimist = require('minimist');
@@ -94,22 +92,6 @@ var COMMON_PACKAGE_JSON = {
   }
 };
 
-var SRC_FOLDER_INSERTION = {
-    js: {
-      '**': ''
-    },
-    dart: {
-      '**': 'lib',
-      '*/test/**': '',
-      'benchmarks/**': 'web',
-      'benchmarks/test/**': '',
-      'benchmarks_external/**': 'web',
-      'benchmarks_external/test/**': '',
-      'example*/**': 'web',
-      'example*/test/**': ''
-    }
-  };
-
 var CONFIG = {
   dest: {
     js: {
@@ -128,7 +110,6 @@ var CONFIG = {
     dart: 'dist/dart',
     docs: 'dist/docs'
   },
-  srcFolderInsertion: SRC_FOLDER_INSERTION,
   transpile: {
     src: {
       js: ['modules/**/*.js', 'modules/**/*.es6'],
@@ -178,19 +159,6 @@ var CONFIG = {
         pipes: {}
       }
     },
-    dart: {
-      src: [
-        'modules/**/*.md', '!modules/**/*.js.md', 'modules/**/*.png', 'modules/**/*.html',
-        'modules/**/*.dart', 'modules/*/pubspec.yaml', 'modules/**/*.css', '!modules/**/e2e_test/**'
-      ],
-      pipes: {
-        '**/*.dart': util.insertSrcFolder(gulpPlugins, SRC_FOLDER_INSERTION.dart),
-        '**/*.dart.md': gulpPlugins.rename(function(file) {
-          file.basename = file.basename.substring(0, file.basename.lastIndexOf('.'));
-        }),
-        '**/pubspec.yaml': gulpPlugins.template({ 'packageJson': COMMON_PACKAGE_JSON })
-      }
-    }
   },
   multicopy: {
     js: {
@@ -298,36 +266,6 @@ gulp.task('build/tree.dart', ['build.broccoli.tools'], function() {
   return getBroccoli().forDartTree().buildOnce();
 });
 
-// ------------
-// html
-
-gulp.task('build/html.dart', html(gulp, gulpPlugins, {
-  src: CONFIG.html.src.dart,
-  dest: CONFIG.dest.dart,
-  srcFolderInsertion: CONFIG.srcFolderInsertion.dart,
-  scriptsPerFolder: CONFIG.html.scriptsPerFolder.dart
-}));
-
-// ------------
-// copy
-
-gulp.task('build/copy.dart', copy.copy(gulp, gulpPlugins, {
-  src: CONFIG.copy.dart.src,
-  pipes: CONFIG.copy.dart.pipes,
-  dest: CONFIG.dest.dart
-}));
-
-
-// ------------
-// multicopy
-
-gulp.task('build/multicopy.dart', copy.multicopy(gulp, gulpPlugins, {
-  src: CONFIG.multicopy.dart.src,
-  pipes: CONFIG.multicopy.dart.pipes,
-  exclude: CONFIG.multicopy.dart.exclude,
-  dest: CONFIG.dest.dart
-}));
-
 // ------------
 // pubspec
 
@@ -577,7 +515,6 @@ gulp.task('test.unit.cjs', ['build.js.cjs'], function () {
     var relPath = path.relative(__dirname, event.path).replace(/\\/g, "/");
     gulp.src(relPath)
       .pipe(gulpPlugins.rename({extname: '.'+ 'js'}))
-      .pipe(util.insertSrcFolder(gulpPlugins, CONFIG.srcFolderInsertion.js))
       .pipe(gulpTraceur(CONFIG.transpile.options.js.cjs, file2moduleName))
       .pipe(transformCJSTests())
       .pipe(gulp.dest(CONFIG.dest.js.cjs + path.dirname(relPath.replace("modules", ""))));
diff --git a/tools/build/copy.js b/tools/build/copy.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a1c67cbe6..0000000000
--- a/tools/build/copy.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * A utility that allows copying one file to multiple directories, such
- * as the LICENSE file.
- */
-var path = require('path');
-var util = require('./util');
-var ternaryStream = require('ternary-stream');
-var minimatch = require('minimatch');
-
-module.exports = {
-  multicopy: multicopy,
-  copy: copy
-};
-
-function createCopyPipe(gulp, plugins, config) {
-  var pipe = gulp.src(config.src);
-  Object.keys(config.pipes).forEach(function(pattern) {
-    pipe = pipe.pipe(ternaryStream(function(file) {
-      return minimatch(file.relative, pattern);
-    }, config.pipes[pattern]));
-  });
-  return pipe;
-}
-
-function copy(gulp, plugins, config) {
-  return function() {
-    return createCopyPipe(gulp, plugins, config)
-      .pipe(gulp.dest(config.dest));
-  }
-}
-
-function multicopy(gulp, plugins, config) {
-  return function() {
-    var pipe = createCopyPipe(gulp, plugins, config);
-    var modules = util.subDirs('modules');
-    if (config.exclude) {
-      modules = modules.filter(function(module) {
-        return config.exclude.indexOf(module) === -1;
-      });
-    }
-    modules.map(function(module) {
-      pipe = pipe.pipe(gulp.dest(path.join(config.dest, module)));
-    });
-    return pipe;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/tools/build/html.js b/tools/build/html.js
deleted file mode 100644
index cbcae891db..0000000000
--- a/tools/build/html.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-var util = require('./util');
-var file2moduleName = require('./file2modulename');
-var through2 = require('through2');
-var path = require('path');
-var fs = require('fs');
-var VinylFile = require('vinyl');
-
-// used for generating html files and bootstrapping benchmarks and examples
-module.exports = function(gulp, plugins, config) {
-  return function() {
-    return gulp.src(config.src)
-      .pipe(util.insertSrcFolder(plugins, config.srcFolderInsertion, config.modulesFolder))
-      .pipe(through2.obj(function(file, enc, done) {
-        var fileName = file.relative;
-        var moduleName = file2moduleName(fileName);
-        var moduleNameWithoutPath = path.basename(moduleName);
-        var self = this;
-        var scripts = util.filterByFile(config.scriptsPerFolder, fileName).map(function(script) {
-          var scriptTag;
-          var scriptSrc = script.src;
-          if (script.copy || script.copyOnly) {
-            scriptSrc = path.basename(script.src);
-            self.push(new VinylFile({
-              cwd: file.cwd,
-              base: file.base,
-              path: path.join(path.dirname(file.path), scriptSrc),
-              contents: fs.readFileSync(script.src)
-            }));
-          };
-          if (script.copyOnly) {
-            return '';
-          }
-          if (scriptSrc) {
-            scriptTag = '<script src="'+scriptSrc+'" type="'+script.mimeType+'"></script>';
-          } else {
-            scriptTag = '<script type="'+script.mimeType+'">'+script.inline+'</script>';
-          }
-          return scriptTag
-            .replace('$MODULENAME_WITHOUT_PATH$', moduleNameWithoutPath)
-            .replace('$MODULENAME$', moduleName)
-        }).join('\n');
-        file.contents = new Buffer(file.contents.toString().replace('$SCRIPTS$', scripts));
-        this.push(file);
-        done();
-      }))
-      .pipe(gulp.dest(config.dest));
-    };
-};
-
diff --git a/tools/build/util.js b/tools/build/util.js
index 2c74f08846..75f8f8979e 100644
--- a/tools/build/util.js
+++ b/tools/build/util.js
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ var Q = require('q');
 module.exports = {
   processToPromise: processToPromise,
   streamToPromise: streamToPromise,
-  insertSrcFolder: insertSrcFolder,
   filterByFile: filterByFile,
   subDirs: subDirs,
   forEachSubDir: forEachSubDir,
@@ -79,15 +78,3 @@ function filterByFile(pathMapping, folder) {
     throw new Error('No entry for folder '+folder+' found in '+JSON.stringify(pathMapping));
   }
 }
-
-function insertSrcFolder(plugins, srcFolderInsertion) {
-  return plugins.rename(function(file) {
-    var folder = file.dirname;
-    var srcDir = filterByFile(srcFolderInsertion, path.join(folder, file.basename));
-    if (srcDir) {
-      var folderParts = file.dirname.split(path.sep);
-      folder = [folderParts[0], srcDir].concat(folderParts.slice(1)).join(path.sep);
-    }
-    file.dirname = folder;
-  });
-}