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