Research, development, environment

The Swiss Association for Certified Quality Houses VGQ initiates research and development projects and is committed to the environment.
Since 1999, the VGQ has maintained a comprehensive quality assurance system for first-class workmanship in system timber construction. It promotes innovative ecological building standards and the use of renewable, natural building materials. It focuses on people - both the client and their needs, as well as the specialists of our members with their specialist interests.

The Mission

The VGQ ensures the highest quality standard in timber construction - this concerns the inspection of the operating process as well as the construction quality of production, assembly and end product. This is additionally ensured by the external and independent testing centre. We promote the latest technologies and innovations based on research and development projects and offer our members and partners as well as the industry targeted further training every year.

Committed to the environment

The VGQ has been running the CO2 Institute Switzerland for around 8 years: a database that calculates and documents how much CO2 is extracted from the atmosphere through the use of wood. The image gallery holz-objekte.org makes timber construction in its great diversity accessible to the digital world.

Our VGQ members and VGQ partners live the mission

The VGQ unites suppliers of system and premanufactured houses as members who implement the VGQ quality assurance system in their companies, and partners who, as suppliers or specialist planners, actively make a valuable contribution to the optimisation of services, products and construction systems; they help shape the common quality concept and thus the mission.