Kočovce, Słowacja
Single-family house in Kočovce
A precast concrete house in the Nové Mesto nad Váhom district of Slovakia, with distinctive gable walls cast as single units together with the pitch of the roof. The elements were made on our casting beds and travelled to Slovakia ready to erect. What remained on site was standing the walls, setting the roof timbers and covering the roof — the shell was closed within a few days.
The time a private house takes to build carries a cost that never appears in the estimate. A mortgage starts to be repaid before there is anywhere to live, and on top of the instalments comes rent for the flat lived in meanwhile. On a traditional build those two costs run in parallel for a year or two and add up to a sum comparable with more than one stage of the works.
- Year of completion:
- 2025
- Use:
- Single-family buildings
- Location:
- Kočovce, Słowacja
Scope of work
Precast does not shorten the whole build to a few days — services, finishing and inspections take as long as they take. What it does shorten is the part that is longest in a traditional programme and most dependent on the weather: the route from foundation to closed shell. Once the roof is on, work moves indoors and stops depending on the season.
That is why a shell closed in a few days matters more than its share of the cost would suggest. The point is not the days of erection themselves, but the fact that the remaining stages can start straight away — including in autumn, when a masonry build would be waiting for spring.
Scope of work: lightweight concrete external and internal loadbearing walls, gable walls with the roof pitch formed, international transport and erection.
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