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Houses Parked among Greenery
Dziennik Polski, 04.09.2008


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The assembly of a modern factory-made house on the lot takes just a few days
One proof of the changes taking place in construction is that ready-made detached houses are manufactured in factory conditions. Just a dozen years ago this was a technical novelty, while now increasing numbers of European companies are moving in this direction. Such houses are built in countries including France, Germany and the UK.

A house in one day?
The key argument for ready-made houses of 3D modules is the time needed for their assembly and their fit-out standard. After founding the building, which takes a very short time, you can immediately move into interiors fully fitted out at the factory and offering every luxury like a kitchen with built-in state-of-the-art white goods, a comfortable bathroom, and the study for your home office work, a living room and a bedroom that are all completely fitted out.
Such a technology methodically developed in Krakow is called Bumati. The assembly of a house built in this technology on the plot takes just 1 to 5 days. "In the place usually busy with brick-layers and carpenters, you will only see a crane and fitters" – emphasises Michał Duda. The house, of a modular structure, comes to the lot completely fitted out. Its manufacture at the factory assures a repeatable, very high quality of every produced element. There is an analogy to automotive production: the person ordering the house, just like a car buyer, can select both the external finish option of the building that they like and its interior fit-out.

The Cube effect
Bumati houses, characterized mainly by their very large glazed areas and vast terraces, can be externally clad with e.g. acrylic plaster, tropical timber or HPL panels that fit very closely together and produce a futuristic cube effect. "The linear, modern form of the building, due to which all movement is horizontal, allows it to be integrated into any environment: mountains, a forest or the seaside" - Michał Duda emphasises.
On obvious advantage is the load-bearing structure of the buildings, unlike the steel and wooden structures generally used in Europe. Buma, leveraging its 17-year experience, is the only manufacturer in Europe to use expanded clay aggregate, a valuable ceramic material with very good thermal parameters. Monolithically cast layered walls of expanded clay concrete have very low thermal transmittance (U=0,20 W/ m2 K). Another notable feature consists in multi-layer roofs by the German-based Bauder, whose shape allows water to be collected and then used for household purposes. Among other systems, Bumati houses come equipped with automatic forced ventilation and precise heating control which allows the temperature to be individually adjusted in every room down to 0.2°C.
The intended buyers of Bumati houses include professionally-active people who, being short on time, want to avoid the lengthy ordeal of administrative formalities and the construction. "The options of house finish and fit-out are selected on-line, then it is accepted at the factory. Before the house is delivered to the plot on a special platform, the buyer can assess the workmanship quality of all its elements, including the kitchen furniture" - stresses Michał Duda.
Bumati houses can be founded above the ground, on small spot footings. Such a solution works very well in areas of high environmental value. "This is the ideal solution for places where you find interesting rocks, unique species of plants and lichens. This is why we say that you can park them among the greenery" – Buma representatives emphasise.
What is the price of such a house? It all depends on the floor area (the standard is 100-120 sq m, but you can get a much larger area by multiplying the modules) and the fit-out, which is a completely individual matter. The price of 1 sq m is no higher than what you will see in offers of high-standard apartments.

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