About Us

A tradition of excellence in construction

Today, Streif is a leading timber frame solutions provider in the UK, capable of covering the whole process in house, from design and specification to manufacture and build. However, the company’s origins stretch back over 90 years across the channel to Germany.

Founded by Josef Streif in Frankfurt in 1929, Streif began life as Germany’s first specialised concrete formwork company. In just a few years, the company developed into one of the country’s major construction companies.

Our Commitment to Innovation and Progress

Among other achievements, STREIF’s patented formwork was used in the construction of the Frankfurt Exhibition Tower, The ICC in Berlin and the East Terminal at Frankfurt Airport.

A new era began with a diversification into the field of pre-fabricated housing in 1964. The seventies, eighties and nineties saw continual growth and by this time STREIF had established itself as the offsite market leader in family housing. Several sister companies were also created during these years and one of these companies, STREIF Industrial Facilities, gained an excellent international reputation in the setting up of factories for offsite production.

Fourteen complete manufacturing plants were planned, built and handed over during this period, including the world’s largest pre-fabricated housing factory in the Siberian city of Tyumen, which can produce up to 5000 houses per year.

A Strong Focus on Quality Construction

In the early 2000s, STREIF underwent a complete modernisation programme, and developed a design and manufacturing process that allowed its increasingly affluent clients to tailor make almost limitless house types from a large but fixed set of building components. Since then, STREIF’s main thrust on mainland Europe has been in the provision of bespoke turnkey houses for individual clients, and the continued supply of more generic house types.

2019 saw the ninetieth anniversary of the company and a continuing diversification and return into the field of larger project building for commercial clients in Germany, the UK and Luxembourg. Over the last decade, STREIF has built schools, care homes, halls of residence, apartment blocks, holiday parks and housing schemes among other projects, and as the advantages of offsite construction become more apparent to all concerned this market is expected to grow.

A tradition of excellence in construction

Our Commitment to Innovation and Progress

A Strong Focus on Quality Construction

Streif UK Ethos

Experience, Quality & Service