SIP house kits delivered across the EU: transport, assembly and what stays local

The factory is in Baia Mare, 70 km from the Hungarian border. What actually crosses the border, who assembles the house, what your local builder has to do anyway, and how transport is priced — for buyers outside Romania.

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Published: September 9, 20264 min read

The panels are cut at our own factory in Baia Mare, Maramureș, in northern Romania — 70 km from the Hungarian border. From there a SIP house kit travels by truck to the plot: across Romania, to Hungary, and to sites elsewhere in the EU. What changes with distance is not the house but the assembly formula and the share of work your local specialists do.

This guide answers the question foreign buyers ask first, before the price: what exactly arrives on my plot, who puts it up, what do I still have to organise locally, and what does the transport cost. The numbers repeat our delivery and assembly page — nothing here is a sales figure invented for the article.

What crosses the border and what does not

Arrives from the factory	Organised locally
SIP panels: exterior walls, load-bearing interior walls, floors	Foundation: strip, screw piles or slab, to our drawings
Roof structure and covering	Water, power and sewage connections
Windows and exterior doors	Building permit and the local design file
Execution documentation for the assembly team	Geotechnical study of the plot
Turnkey scope where agreed: installations, insulation, finishes, interior joinery, basic bathroom and kitchen	Access for a truck and a crane up to the building spot

A kit is a factory-made house without the ground works. The panels arrive cut to your design, numbered, together with the roof, the exterior joinery and the documentation the assembly crew works from. Everything that depends on your plot — the hole in the ground, the pipes in the street, the paperwork at the town hall — is local by nature and stays local wherever you build.

What changes with distance

Where you build	How the work is usually organised
Romania	Our own teams do everything, kit or turnkey
Hungary — the border is 70 km from the factory, Lake Balaton about 550 km	Our team assembles the structure; the finishing scope is agreed in the offer
EU, within about a day of driving	Either a full team from Baia Mare or a supervising engineer with your crew
EU, farther west	Usually a supervising engineer plus a local crew; the kit and the documentation travel, the labour is local

Transport is quoted in the offer by the distance from Baia Mare to your plot, together with the assembly — there is no separate €/km tariff that appears at the end. What distance really changes is who stands on the scaffolding.

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Two ways to put the house up abroad

	Our team from Baia Mare	Supervising engineer + local crew
Who assembles	People who assemble SIP houses every week	Your builder, working to our documentation
Our engineer on site	The whole assembly	At the key stages
Cost	Travel and accommodation for the team are in the offer	Local labour rates, usually lower the further west you go
Best for	Hungary and destinations within a day of driving	Sites far from Baia Mare, or where you already have a builder
What you must have	Prepared foundation and access	A crew that will follow the panel documentation

Inside Romania our own teams, trained on SIP technology, do the whole job. Further away the offer sets one of two formulas — and this is the single decision that changes the budget and the schedule of a foreign project.

Documentation, permits and the local designer

The structural design of a SIP house is done to the Eurocodes, the same family of standards across the EU — that is what makes the export of a house kit realistic at all. What is not automatic is the local part: every country has its national annexes, its permit file and its own list of stamps.

In practice it works like this. We deliver the execution documentation for the house — panel layouts, connections, loads. A local designer adapts it into the permit file your town hall expects, in the local language, and adds what only a local can add: the plot survey, the utility approvals, the energy certificate where it is required. Ask for a designer familiar with prefabricated panel structures; the file goes faster.

Getting the permit is your part of the schedule, and it is usually the longest one — the same rule as in Romania, where the deadlines are set by law and described in our guide on the real construction timeline.

The timeline of a foreign order

Kit production takes 2–4 weeks from order confirmation, and it runs in parallel with your permit file, not after it. Once the foundation is ready and cured, the structure — walls, floors, roof, exterior joinery — usually goes up within days. A turnkey house is handed over in at most 3 months from the deposit and the permits where our teams do the finishing; further afield the finishing is normally a local job and its calendar is your builder’s, not ours.

The order that matters: consultation and fixed price, contract and deposit, documentation into the permit file, production in parallel, foundation, transport and assembly, handover. Skipping the geotechnical study to save two weeks is the one shortcut that regularly costs more than it saves — it decides the foundation.

What it costs

The kit is about €500/m² and the finished house about €1,000/m² — the turnkey version costs roughly double the insulated kit. Both anchors, design by design, are on the prices page, and what exactly sits inside the kit figure is broken down in what a SIP house kit includes. For the finished-house formula with 2026 numbers by size, see turnkey house prices in Romania.

On top of the house: transport by distance, the foundation if your plot needs more than a strip, and the connections, which are paid to local providers and are never part of a house price anywhere. Inside the EU the kit moves as goods in the single market, so there are no customs formalities; how VAT applies to your particular purchase belongs in the offer and, for anything unusual, with your own accountant.

Do you deliver house kits outside Romania?

Yes. The factory is in Baia Mare, 70 km from the Hungarian border; the kit travels by truck and the offer sets who assembles it — our own team, or a supervising engineer working with a local crew.

What does transport cost?

It is quoted in the offer, by the distance from Baia Mare to your plot, together with the assembly. There is no separate per-kilometre tariff added at the end.

Can I use my own builder?

Yes, and for distant sites it is often the cheaper option. You get the execution documentation and our engineer at the key stages; your crew does the assembly under that supervision.

Will your documentation be accepted for a permit in my country?

The structure is designed to the Eurocodes, which apply EU-wide, but the permit file itself is national. A local designer adapts our documentation into the file your authority expects and signs the local parts.

How long does the whole thing take?

Production is 2–4 weeks and runs in parallel with the permit; the structure goes up within days of the foundation being ready; a turnkey handover is at most 3 months from deposit and permits where our teams do the finishing.

Do you do the foundation and the utility connections abroad?

The foundation is built to our drawings, normally by a local contractor; water, power and sewage connections are always done with local providers and are not included in the house price.

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