More and more prefabricated houses are being built in Germany.

Will the corona pandemic continue to increase demand?

Jan Hauser

Editor in business.

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    Even before the corona pandemic, more and more prefabricated houses were approved and built across Germany, our market share has been growing for years. But in the past few months even more people are thinking about owning a home with a garden. In the pandemic, families in particular are relentlessly affected by cramped or otherwise suboptimal living conditions. You long for more space, flexibility and a safe haven. An individually planned and turnkey prefabricated wooden house in rural or suburban areas with a garage, private garden and study is the preferred form of living for more and more people in this country. We are increasingly taking this request into account when we have current inquiries from interested parties.Accordingly, the order books in our company and in the prefabricated house industry are currently well filled.

    If more people want to go out to the country, do they look more often at their housing costs and choose inexpensive prefabricated houses, or does the price hardly play a role?

    The price plays a role in every, especially every major investment.

    Most people only build once in a lifetime.

    They use their savings and take on liabilities to help them realize their dream of owning a home.

    It is all the more important for them, but also for us house builders, to ensure that the builder receives an award-worthy consideration.

    Nowadays, prefabricated houses are not necessarily the cheaper and certainly not the cheaper alternative, but they are - in the literal sense - the cheaper ones.

    Our sustainable, energy-efficient wooden prefabricated houses are a future-proof and sensible investment.

    Material costs rise in construction.

    Will this make prefabricated houses much more expensive?

    It is a normal market development when rising material prices result in a more expensive end product.

    The construction industry is certainly no exception. We prefabricated house manufacturers in the Federal Association of German Prefabricated Buildings attach great importance to an easily understandable and reliable cost calculation for the client.

    Finally, he moves into a house that he and his house builder have tailored individually to his wishes, needs and budget.

    The Greens accuse new buildings of a poorer ecological balance, others oppose their own homes for reasons of climate and space.

    How does the prefabricated construction industry deal with it?

    As a prefabricated timber construction industry, we are convinced that housing construction and environmental goals must not be played off against each other.

    Both are important, and both are also possible in the construction of new homes, as our thoroughly sustainable industry proves.

    The prefabricated building makes its offer in order to meet the high demand for own living space on the one hand and climate-friendly new buildings on the other.

    Our natural and renewable building material wood, which has a far better ecological balance than mineral or metallic building materials, as well as the well above-average energy efficiency of prefabricated houses make our industry a pioneer for climate-conscious building and living.

    We are even actively committed to further increasing the energy requirements for new buildings and to taking a closer look at the carbon footprint of buildings over their entire life cycle.

    In this way, we would like to make our contribution to important climate goals and an overall future-proof building stock.

    Jan Hauser asked the questions.