The market
A mid-term, infrastructure-equipped housing layer for the crews wiring Europe — offshore wind on the coast, data-centre clusters inland, both gated by procurement compliance that nobody else has indexed.
Why now
Offshore wind build-out
DE/NL ≈ 30+ GW targeting 2030. Each phase moves a 400–800-person crew into a coastal staging port for 6–12 months and needs laydown yards, insured outbuildings, and heavy-vehicle access — not flats.
Hyperscaler data-centre clusters
Frankfurt, Hanau, Berlin, Hamburg-Moorburg, Amsterdam, Eemshaven — tile-on-tile builds run 18–36 months of round-the-clock construction crews that need mid-term infrastructure-equipped housing near site.
Compliance tightening
ISO 45001, employer & public liability, background-check mandates, and approved-supplier cycles are now table-stakes for any EPC contract. The procurement side already requires it; the supply side is unindexed.
Permitting near build sites
Local permitting makes purpose-built crew camps slow. Existing farmhouses with fenced yards and three-phase are already permitted — and they're the address procurement needs to bill to.
Note on sizing
Ranges are illustrative, drawn from public offshore-wind build-out targets and data-centre construction schedules. Project-site seed names (Borkum Riffgrund, Arkona, Wikinger, He Dreiht, Nordsee One, Frankfurt/Hanau/Berlin/Hamburg-Moorburg, Amsterdam, Eemshaven, Bremerhaven, Cuxhaven, Emden, Rostock/Sassnitz-Mukran) anchor real geography; crew and rate figures in the calculator are whitepaper-derived and not audit-grade.