Skilpod is a young company that started 2,5 years ago with the production of 3D prefab minihouses and extentions.
The idea grew when 2 friends (Jan Vrijs – Business Lawyer and Filip Timmermans – Industrial Engineer) where driving home from hospital after visiting a friend. He had to go back home to live with his parents for medical reasons. This was not so easy for this 29 year old guy certainly due to privacy issues. Filip was already studying alternative housing methods for a couple of years and was designing a new prefab construction method for his own house. Jan saw that the application would be ideal for their friend.
The solution would be an extension for the house that could be placed in less than a day, but with the quality or even better than a house. So no containers or other shed like structures. The idea was born. The 2 guys went looking for an investor and found one fairly easy: Raymond Crestkens, Owner of AKP and Allim, a big industrial building company in steel and concrete buildings, with a huge expertize in construction. He was immediately captured by the idea to build movable houses without losing the quality and feeling of a well-constructed regular house. Even preforming better. The joined forces and SKILPOD was born!
