The Longhouse production team

About us · since 2009

Seventeen yearsand one name

We have never changed our legal entity, never rebranded and never started again with a clean sheet. All 640 houses sit with one company — and so do the guarantees.

Meet an architect — free

An hour or so at a big table. No obligation — even if you build with someone else.

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houses handed over since 2009

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people in production and on the crews

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offices: Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Åre

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missed handover dates in the past three years

01 History

How it grew

We grew out of orders, not out of investment. Which is why every year here can be pinned to a particular house and a particular person who took the risk first.

2009

The first house

Three people, a rented workshop outside Norrtälje and one client who took us at our word. The house is still standing; we call in every couple of years.

2013

Our own workshop

We bought the site in Norrtälje and installed the first press. From that point the timber was ours.

2016

An in-house studio

We took architects onto the staff. Until then we built other people’s designs and redrew their junctions far too often.

2019

The CNC line

Cutting moved to the machine. Tolerances fell to a millimetre and shell assembly time halved.

2022

Site inspection

Quality control became a department of its own, reporting straight to the quality director.

2026

640 houses

Four offices, 42,000 m³ of glulam a year and a two-month queue on the production line.

The glulam production workshop in Norrtälje

02 Production

The Norrtälje mill

A 4.2 ha site, two gluing lines, kilns holding 720 m³ at once, a CNC centre and a store of finished house kits. Every house we build leaves from here.

  • 4.2

    hectares of site

    Our own access roads and loading bay — the kit leaves in one piece, with no transfers.

  • 720

    m³ of kiln capacity

    Loaded in one go. Wet timber physically cannot reach the line.

  • 42k

    m³ of glulam a year

    Enough for roughly 180 average houses, including orders from other companies.

03 Team

People you can
actually walk up to

Every house has four names attached: architect, engineer, site manager and inspector. They are listed in the contract and you can write to any of them directly.

Astrid Bergström — head architect at Longhouse

Astrid Bergström

Head architect

Seventeen years in timber housing. She takes the first meeting herself: a brief for a house, she says, cannot be sent by email.

Erik Lindqvist — production director at Longhouse

Erik Lindqvist

Production director

Responsible for gluing and cutting. He is the one who stops a batch when the delamination test fails.

Elin Hedlund — head of client service at Longhouse

Elin Hedlund

Head of client service

She has lived in one of our houses since 2023, which is why she argues with production on the client’s side.

Johan Nyström — head of site inspection at Longhouse

Johan Nyström

Head of site inspection

A former builder, pedantic to the point of rudeness. His checklists read like an indictment.

04 Documents

Certificates
and awards

Click any of them and we will say what it certifies — and what it does not. Originals are shown at the meeting, copies sent on request.

We build about forty houses a year
and we do not want to build a hundred.

Because at forty we can still get to every site, know every client by name and go through every defect ourselves. This is not modesty; it is a ceiling we chose.

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