The Next Generation of Student Housing
Redefining Efficiency, Sustainability, and Functionality in Student Residences.
CREE Student Housing Solution
Building the Future of Student Accommodation
The CREE Student Housing Solution is a scalable, modular building system designed for student accommodations of any bed count. Using our prefabricated timber-hybrid system, it enables rapid construction, flexible layouts, and long-term operational efficiency. With its smart approach, the CREE Student Housing Solution meets the demand for affordable, high-quality, and sustainable living spaces for the next generations of students.
The innovative building solution redefines student housing with a streamlined construction process, ensuring maximum efficiency without compromising on comfort and design, ensuring semester-based openings.
Its modular design optimizes space, seamlessly blending private spaces with vibrant communal areas—designed to meet students’ needs for both privacy and connection.
Whether you’re a developer, investor, or student housing operator, CREE offers a proven solution for modern student accommodations – scalable, resilient, and built to last.
Faster Project Delivery
Functional Housing Layouts
Scalability & Adaptability
Flexible Interior & Exterior Design
Sustainable & Resilient Materials
Well-Being & Health
Benefits
Making It Your Ideal Choice
Developers
Fast project delivery with prefabricated structures, MEP, and bathroom components, significantly reducing on-site work, improving quality, and accelerating time to market. Up to 50% faster construction ensures semester-based opening.
Reduced labor and material costs due to streamlined off-site manufacturing and on-site assembly, without compromising on durability or design quality. Optimized layouts lead to lower construction and maintenance costs.
Meet and exceed environmental regulations with up to 60% reduction in carbon footprint over a building’s lifecycle, 60% reduction in construction waste, 50% reduction in concrete use, and 40% reduction in steel use. Designed to meet highest certification standards.
Modular system adaptable to various design requirements now and for refurbishments in the future. Suited for projects of any bed count, from small-scale student residences to large-scale developments.
High precision, consistency in construction, and superior build quality, supported by a well-established local supply chain and network approach, reducing on-site risks and unexpected costs.
Faster project delivery with prefabricated solutions, lowered construction and operational costs, boosting overall profitability and a higher exit value. The earlier stabilization of the asset compared to conventional construction leads to optimal cost control and quicker returns on investment.
Student Housing Operator
Smart energy-efficient MEP systems and sustainable designs further reduce long-term utility and maintenance costs, increasing financial predictability for student housing operators.
Optimized layouts maximize bed count and rentable space while maintaining high-quality living conditions in functional housing layouts. Designed to improve student retention, ensuring long-term stability for operations.
Faster Project delivery means earlier tenant occupancy, generating revenue sooner and ensuring a semester-based opening. Lower construction and operational costs improve long-term profitability.
Biophilic design creates healthier living spaces, improving academic performance, well-being, and student retention rates.
Investors
Faster project delivery with prefabricated solutions, lowered construction and operational costs, boosting overall profitability and a higher exit value. The earlier stabilization of the asset compared to conventional construction leads to optimal cost control and quicker returns on investment.
Reduced labor and material costs due to streamlined off-site manufacturing and on-site assembly, without compromising on durability or design quality. Optimized layouts lead to lower construction and maintenance costs and contribute to a greener footprint.
CREE enables projects to meet highest sustainability standards such as LEED, BREEAM, DGNB, and EU Taxonomy alignment. These sustainability credentials enhance property value and make projects more attractive for institutional investors and financing partners.
General Contractor
Prefabrication and off-site production reduce on-site errors, waste and minimize workforce requirements. A lighter superstructure requires less foundation work, while cleaner and safer construction sites improve overall efficiency.
A well-coordinated, repeatable building system minimizes interfaces and delays, ensuring smooth execution and cost certainty. Early air- and watertightness creates a factory-like work environment, enhancing quality and productivity.
Knowledge transfer increases margins and independence, while proven projects foster trust and enable long-term collaborations.
Architects
Proven modular system meets diverse design visions and requirements, offering extensive customization options and ensuring versatility across different projects.
Ensure precision of details and high accuracy of the CREE Systems prevent rework during execution.
Support from experienced network experts. The seamless integration of various stakeholders from the start ensures that every project benefits from cutting-edge technology, and high-quality standards.
Integrate cutting-edge, sustainable technologies into designs with less effort.
Design Flexibility
Flexible & Functional Housing Design
The CREE Student Housing Solution offers optimized layouts for maximum space and student comfort, balancing private and communal spaces.
The solution is designed to address the needs of students – biophilic elements, exposed wood and natural lighting contribute to healthier indoor environments, improving student well-being, academic performance, and long-term tenant retention.
Flexible and various room types to match market needs.
Single Room
15,8 m2
Quadruple Room
66,2 m2
Studio Room
15,8 m2
Twin Room
32,6 m2
CREE Student Housing Solution
360° Room Tour
Visit our virtual 360° room tour through a CREE Student Accommodation.
The tour is based on a sample project with 300 rooms, where you have access to 6 different room types.
Proven Success
Case Studies
The existing CREE Student Residences have already delivered impressive results.
With an average project delivery time that is 50% faster and a carbon footprint reduced by more than 60%, these CREE Student Accommodations set a new standard in innovation.
Guimaraes, Portugal
Taking timber-hybrid construction to the next level.
The First in Guimarães, Portugal consists of two 4-storey buildings – a hotel with 95 rooms, and a students’ residence offering 44 rented studio apartments as well as commercial space. Born as a beautiful product of aligned visions and collaborative partnership, this building complex shows a new approach to sustainable residential construction and demonstrates amazing new potentials for the use of the CREE System to the forward-thinking hotel developers worldwide .
Beja, Portugal
A journey of innovation & efficiency.
The Beja University Residence is setting new standards in sustainable student housing. Covering an area of around 11,000 m², the project has a capacity for 503 students. It has 327 accommodation units, including 126 are single rooms, 150 are double rooms, 25 are single studios and 26 are double studios. As well as living accommodation and given the importance of having common spaces to promote integration and leisure, the Residence will have social areas, study areas, common kitchens, dining areas, laundry, gym and technical areas.
CREE Student Housing Solution
Download Full Case Study
This case study not only provides key insights on the challenges and solutions of the exemplary projects “The First” in Guimarães, Portugal, but also highlights the efficiency, sustainability, and innovation of the CREE Student Housing Solution.
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Awards and Certifications
Certified Excellence
Sustainability is at the heart of each CREE Building Solution. Our projects have been recognized with prestigious certifications for their excellence in sustainability and innovation.
Austria 2022
CREE Product Solutions
Tailored Solutions for Your Building Needs
Our innovative solutions offer tailored options for various asset classes. Each solution combines sustainability, efficiency, and cutting-edge technology to elevate your construction projects to the next level.
