Photos: These German eco-houses are built for the Irish market

Houses ‘grown’ in Germany and factory fabricated are about to make their way to Irish market says Tommy Barker.

TIMING’S a funny old thing, as architecturally accomplished eco-houses ‘grown’ in Germany’s Bavarian forests, and factory prefabricated to within millimeters of precision by a big company called Baufritz, in a small town called Erkheim, are about to make their way to Irish shores.