Wildwood Modulbau
| Type | Private company |
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| Industry | |
| Founded | 1755 AN in Wildwood, Aerla |
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| Headquarters | Wildwood, Aerla |
| Area served | Aerla |
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| Revenue | ₣58 million (1757 AN) |
| Employees | 340 (1757 AN) |
Wildwood Modulbau is a privately held Aerlan modular housing manufacturer based in Wildwood (Modulbau is Commonspeak for "modular construction"). It was founded in 1755 AN to build factory-made houses for Aerla's parishes as a replacement for the country's neglected Public Relief Board social housing. The company makes timber-framed modules in its works and trucks them to site along the Great Aerlan Highway, and it sells to parishes rather than to the state. In 1757 AN it employed about 340 people and reported revenue of ₣58 million, roughly three times its 1756 AN figure.
History
Wildwood Modulbau was founded in 1755 AN by Jonas Ehrler, a production engineer, and Sanne Vandehaar, a former parish housing officer, in the municipality of Wildwood. The two had seen the condition of the social housing built by the Public Relief Board, long criticized as neglected and run down, and set out to build a better rural house at a price a parish could afford. The firm sold its first houses in 1756 AN and grew quickly through the following year, tripling its revenue as parishes placed repeat orders. Its growth has been limited by the capacity of its works rather than by any shortage of demand.
Products
The company builds volumetric modules, complete rooms framed in timber and finished in the works with wiring, plumbing, and fittings already in place. Its standard products are two-module and four-module rural house types, which are craned onto prepared foundations and joined on site. Because the modules leave the works nearly complete, a parish can order a group of houses and have them occupied within a single building season, a pace that conventional site building in rural Aerla cannot match. The finished modules are carried to site by road, which ties the company's reach to the Great Aerlan Highway and the roads that branch from it.
Wildwood Modulbau sells to parishes rather than to the state, and much of its early growth was funded by parish borrowing from the Aerlan Infrastructure Credit Company, the chartered lender whose countryside mandate directs credit to the smaller municipalities and rural parishes. That lending is what allowed parishes to place the repeat orders on which the company's expansion has depended.
Organization
The company is privately held and remains under the control of its two founders, with Jonas Ehrler as managing director and Sanne Vandehaar as director. As of 1757 AN it employed about 340 people, most of them in its Wildwood works. Its output is set by the throughput of the factory, and its stated priority has been to add production capacity rather than to widen its range.
