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Brette Haus

Prefabricated Folding Houses

Latvia
Market: Real estate, Farming, Tourism, sport
Stage of the project: Prototype or product is ready

Date of last change: 24.03.2020
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Idea

Brette Haus is an elegant folding house, designed to be easily transported, installed on site and connected to the mains in three hours. All the sanitary equipment and electrical engineering are already prefabricated. Just plug it in!

Current Status

First house installed
LAtvian Startup Visa
Startup Wise Guys OPA-2 graduated
Assembly partnerships made
Marketing materials made
Building the distribution net

Market

Hospitality in tourism, agriculture, construction and events.
The primary focus is on out city b2b tourism market - glamping, camping, out city hotels, etc.
European market volume is 300 000 000 EUR
Accommodations want to increase their capacity as simple as possible.
Strong trend to innovation detected in camping industry.
Our first customer is a Hungarian hotel owner.
Speed mounting is also important in Event management.
Our target is 1% of that market volume in three years.

Problem or Opportunity

The European prefab house market is growing 7-9% every year since 2012.
The reasons for this are
demand for smarter and cheaper building processes
shortage of qualified labor
reliability for time and money estimates
More than that there are popping up several projects in this area:
Last year Amazon invested 6.7 million dollars in Plant Prefab.
This year Node housing startup was presented at Y Combinator Demo Day.

These are the signals for the total escalation of the prefabrication trend in construction.

Genuine idea of prefabrication was to simplify mounting and dismantling. But something went wrong and now you need a crane, several people, certified electrician and quality control officer at the installation sites. And after all these activities your wall prints might not match!
These technologies are getting too old.

Solution (product or service)

Using modern technology, we made tiny housing simple again. Brette Haus uses Cross-Laminated Timber, which makes self-supporting elements and allows them to fold in and out.
Thus, all our houses

Foldable and could be installed in three hours
Up to 100 sq.m of ready to use houses could be delivered by one truck and it meets the road regulations;
All sanitary and electrical engineering are already prefabricated. You can move in immediately
Being non-capital, it could be installed on any leveled ground
The container-liked size makes it easy and safe to store and deliver at any time
Natural ventilation process takes place in our houses because we use only solid wood.

Competitors

Novelty, price and speed are our success criteria
1. Wikkelhouse [Netherlands, starting at 1724 EUR per sq. m. ] https://www.wikkelhouse.com/
2. Habitafrex [Canada, starting at 900 EUR per sq. m. ] http://www.habitaflex.com/en
3. DUBLDOM [Russia, starting at 890 EUR per sq. m. ] http://dubldom.com/
4. Muurametalot [Finland, starting at 1400 EUR per sq. m. ] http://www.muurametalot.fi
5. Futteralhouse [Germany, starting at 1750 EUR per sq. m. ] http://futteralhaus.com/
6. Ticab house [Poland, starting at 500 EUR per sq. m. ] http://www.ticabhouse.com/en.html
7. Ten Fold Engeneers [UK, 1800 EUR per sq. m.] https://www.tenfoldengineering.com

Advantages or differentiators

Unfolding feature is unique and has been used only within an expensive market due to rare complex solutions. Our solution is cheap and simple. Our current prototype uses regular hinges for a heavy gate.

Finance

Rental model calculated to be 50 eur per day per tiny cabin and break-even in 3 years.
Sale price is 700-900 eur per sq.m

Business model

One-stop shop to satisfy busy customers.
Customization kills optimization. We offer 1st standardized housing solution from order to delivery.
Our lead time is 8 weeks from order to delivery which is 30% less than our competitors announce.
Direct sales model will push us and we will add a rental model in 2021

Money will be spent on

Rental business model

Offer for investor

10%

Team or Management

Incubation/Acceleration programs accomplishment

2019 Startup Wise Guys OPA-2

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