A traditional home easily keeps your crew busy for a year, from foundations to handover. With prefabricated timber frame walls, floor and roof elements from Carpentier, the shell is wind- and watertight within a few days and finishing can start straight away. The result: with the same people, you build at least five homes a year instead of one. More homes means more turnover, and with the same fixed costs, more profit too.
In a traditional build, your crew waits for masonry, drying times, floor slabs and the weather. With timber frame construction, most of the work happens in our workshop while you prepare the foundations on site. Once the slab is ready, we install the elements within a few days. Your crew then moves straight on to finishing, or to the next site.
The shell is up within a few days. Per home, your crew stays busy for ± 8 to 10 weeks with foundations and finishing. Indicative planning, depending on the project and crew size.
If you make €25,000 per home, five homes a year gives you €125,000 instead of €25,000. With the same crew.
Finding skilled workers is the biggest challenge in construction today. With timber frame construction, you get more out of the people you already have. Your fixed costs (equipment, office, vehicles, insurance) stay largely the same, so most of that extra margin becomes profit.
A shorter build time also means your payment instalments come in sooner and you pre-finance for less time. For developers and investors, every month counts double: a home that is ready months earlier is sold or let months earlier and costs less in construction interest.
Example based on a margin of €25,000 per home. Your own margin may be higher or lower.
Our technical department calculates your plans and draws the elements. In our own workshop, we produce the timber frame walls, floor and roof elements with CNC machining, insulated with cellulose and finished airtight. On request, we also fit the timber cladding with QuickClip in the workshop. You receive a clear assembly plan, or we assemble for you.
From 2028, the climate impact over the full life cycle will have to be calculated for new buildings larger than 1,000 m², and from 2030 for all new buildings. Our walls are fully circular and demountable, with CO₂ emissions around 27,500 kg lower per home than traditional masonry: around 70% less, or more than 110 kg of CO₂ per m². If you build five homes a year, you save more than 135,000 kg of CO₂ in total. On top of that, around 25,000 kg of CO₂ per home stays stored in the timber and cellulose. That gives your projects a stronger sales argument and a better residual value.
