| Type | Family driven |
|---|---|
| Industry | prefabricated houses in unique wood-glass construction |
| Founded | 1912 |
| Founder(s) | Johann Huf |
| Headquarters | Hartenfels, Westerwald, Germany |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people |
Georg Huf (CEO) |
| Revenue | 84 Mio. EUR (2007) |
| Employees | 434 (2007) |
| Website | huf-haus.com |
Huf Haus is a German company based in Hartenfels in the Westerwald region that manufactures prefabricated houses.[1][2] Huf Haus is the world's leading company in selling houses in the Bauhaus tradition based on german Fachwerk. The construction allows individual floor plans, including for office buildings. Huf houses are available as zero-energy buildings.
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1912 Johann Huf founded a carpentry workshop in the small village of Krümmel in the Westerwald. A year later the enterprise moved to Hartenfels. In 1948 his son Franz Huf took over management of the enterprise, and enlarged it to a supra-regional provider of carpenter's works, e. g. churches in the Rhineland, the large post administration office in Bonn (1950) as well as the German and Arabic pavilions at Expo 58. The so-called "Huf Fachwerkhaus 2000" was designed in 1972 together with the architect Manfred Adams.[3] The principles of this construction are still the standard in all Huf houses. Since 1996 the grandsons Georg Huf and Thomas Huf have led the company, and brought the products to the world market. They also established "The Huf Haus Village", a collection of Huf family houses, which represent the possibilities of building Huf houses.
On 20th September 2011 Thomas Huf died at age 51.[4]
Near the end of 2009 Huf Haus started new designed houses which they call "evolutionary" in its post-and-beam architecture but "revolutionary" in energy efficiency.
Because the expressive symbiosis of wood and glass finds recognition at major international architecture and design competitions, and among Huf Haus clients, who also acknowledge that it can be individually designed, the main stylistic elements have not changed.
By way of contrast the changes in energy efficiency are called "revolutionary" by Huf. [5]. Despite the generous use of glass the Huf Haus houses require only a heating rate of 34 W/m2 (at Hartenfels, Germany). The main reasons are:[6]
The company delivers around the world and they restrict their production to 200 houses a year to keep the unique character of the houses. Of these, about 50 a year are exported to the United Kingdom (UK). As a result, an independent "Huf Haus owners' club" has been established there.[7] Since 2009, Cleveland (OH) based dotGreen Inc. is the official sales office for the US market[8].
Huf Haus products have won several architectural prizes, including: