Josef Gruber elected new president of EFV

Austrian Josef Gruber elected new president of the European Federation of national pre-manufactured building associations
 
In last year’s plenary meeting on September 30 Josef Gruber was elected new president of the association. He followed Georg Huf from Germany. At the same time the General Secretariat was moved to Austria, new secretary general is Christian Murhammer.
 
Josef Gruber is owner and managing director of the VARIO-BAU Fertighaus GesmbH and president of the Austrian Association of pre-fabricated buildings.
 
After his election Gruber said that he will focus his work on networking and co-operations of the pre-fabricated building business on a European level. This implies a regular representation in Brussels in order to further growth, to improve the quality of the products and above all to bring forward a more sustainable protection of the climate and environment owing to the state-of-the-art construction techniques of low energy or passive prefabricated houses.
 
About EFV
 
The driving principle of the EFV is the promotion of the competitiveness of prefabricated construction. The association does not pursue economic interests of its own.
 
The association particularly takes over the following tasks:
 

• General promotion of the idea of prefabricated building to European institutions, science, politics as well as media and public.
• Innovative research projects and further development of the prefabrication on the European level.
• Information about prefab-relevant questions; facilitation of the member’s connections and advancement of cooperative relationships.
• Establishing rules for fair competition considering the interests of the consumers

 
www.e-f-v.eu/eng/
 
EFV Board
 
President: Josef Gruber (AUT)
Vice president: Georg Huf (GER)
 
Members of the board:
Péter Fazekas (HUN)
Uwe Germerott (SUI)
Dr. Frank Gussek (GER)
Friedrich Schachner (AUT)
Erich Weichselbaum (AUT)
 
The board is responsible for the representation of the association in public; it constitutes the basic guidelines and organises the political activities of the association. The board is elected for a three year period, but will stay on duty until a new election. The board can assign committees that can develop decision guidance about essential branch questions. The head office is located in Vienna, Austria.