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Production

Built whole, before it ever sees the site.

Twenty-five minutes from Tallinn, our factory turns engineered timber into finished walls, roofs and complete modules — insulated, glazed, clad and quality-checked indoors, then shipped and assembled in days.

The factory in numbers

4000
Covered production space
8
Functional production areas
< 1 week
To produce a 150–250 m² home
100+
Factory-to-site transports a year

And the factory doesn't work alone. When a project needs more capacity, we produce with partner factories across Estonia and Latvia — with our own engineers and site teams running every project, whichever floor it leaves.

25 seconds on the line

Cut, framed, insulated, finished — a production run in one take.

The same line runs from a compact home to a 48-unit development.

The line

From 3D model to wrapped module — one roof, eight stations.

  1. 01 Engineer & cut Every element is modelled in 3D (Vertex BIM), then cut on a six-axis Weinmann WBS120 line.
  2. 02 Frame & sheath Walls, floors and roofs are framed and boarded flat at dedicated assembly stations.
  3. 03 Insulate & seal Insulation, vapour membrane and the service layer go in under factory QC — measured, not guessed.
  4. 04 Finish whole Windows, cladding and interior fit-out are completed before anything ships.
  5. 05 Wrap & load Elements and modules are weather-wrapped and loaded — one transport leaves roughly every working day.
  6. 06 Assemble on site Craned and joined in days. A finished module home is usable within a day of assembly.
A carpenter fastens timber battens over the airtight membrane of a prefabricated wall element with a nail gun Two carpenters fit charred-black cladding boards onto a wall element in the factory, with wrapped element packs ready for delivery behind them A heavy forklift moves long glulam beams through the factory hall past stacks of structural timber

Machinery & systems

The precision is industrial. The material is timber.

Weinmann WBS120 six-axis line

Automated cutting and machining of every framing component — repeatable millimetre precision, no site-carpentry drift.

Vertex BIM, design to production

One 3D model runs from engineering through the factory floor, so what's priced is what's produced.

ERP-tracked production

Our own production system logs every element through the line — around ninety entries a day when the floor is full.

Mitek 40-tonne truss press

In-house roof-truss production — including curved Passivhaus elements up to 13 metres.

Curved glulam roof cassettes being insulated inside the factory, a carpenter checking the framing

We even bend it — curved Passivhaus roof elements, produced in-house on the truss press.

Factory to foundations

Then it travels — and goes up in days.

The factory yard with weather-wrapped wall-element packages staged outside the production halls, ready for transport
01 Load
A curtain-side truck delivers prefabricated house elements to a rocky building site, the first house already standing behind it
02 Ship
A mobile crane lifts roof elements onto a terrace of dark timber-clad houses beside a lake during installation
03 Crane

Well over a hundred transports leave the yard each year — roughly one load every working day. A module home is usable within a day of assembly.

Quality, measured

n50 = 0.48

measured Passivhaus airtightness on a delivered public building — the walls left our line airtight, not patched airtight

Certified & recognised

  • ETA — European Technical Assessment Cert. No. ETA-13/0240 for prefabricated timber-frame element and modular houses (EOTA / ETAG 007), issued via VTT Finland.
  • CE marking Production runs to the ETA requirements; all parts and components used in the finished building are CE-marked.
  • Certified Passive House designers Passive House Consultant / Designer certification from the Passivhaus Institut, Darmstadt — the design competence behind our low-energy builds.
  • A+Awards 2022 — Special Mention Cliff, Architizer A+Awards (Concepts — Architecture +Prefab).
  • Energy-efficiency award 2016 “Most energy-efficient public building” — Kautokeino Health Care Centre, delivered to the Passivhaus Standard NS3700.

White-label & partner production

We also build for brands you already know.

A large share of our order book has always been production for other housing brands — their design, their name on the site hoarding, our engineering and factory behind it.

Catalogue-home production

Standing house models produced series after series to a partner's drawings and spec.

Element & module supply

Walls, floors, roofs, facade elements or complete modules — delivered for your own assembly crews.

Project-by-project tailoring

One-off developments engineered from your architect's design and produced under your brand.

  • OBOS
  • Nordbohus
  • Bonava
  • Husdrømmen
  • Thimo365

Partner production as published on qhaus.eu references; full project list on request.

The same line builds our own compact homes — configure one at CompactLiving.

Walk the factory, or just send the drawings.

We're 25 minutes from Tallinn — visits welcome. Or start with a brief and we'll come back with how we'd engineer, produce and assemble it.