The said company has already built 3 houses within the close family circle. All without significant problems, so I would like to stick with them.
So far that sounds
actually good, but ...
However, I have the feeling they are a bit "sleeping through" the current new regulation.
... you will have to clarify that feeling, because in the past you cannot build your house tomorrow anymore. So either the provider can concretely illustrate in plans and price how your house will look according to the Building Energy Act 2023 - or not, then you will have to look for other mothers’ beautiful daughters. I would like to tell you more about this, but the provider is quite tight-lipped with information on his website, and I have no clients who have built with him. So you have to ask the crucial question there yourself. Orient yourself on what they are currently building and selling in the area of "Effizienzhaus 55," because that will be the essential basis that may need to be refined or expanded. So: how do they currently build for "KfW55"? If that is a different wall construction, that alone is no reason for concern. Is their "KfW55" wall construction like the "Energy Saving Ordinance," just e.g. 6 cm thicker built - or are they already switching from the concept "monolithic" to "ETICS" for this? From my Steine mantra you know: if they have so far sold this wall construction with 40% market share, that is good enough; if it has 20% market share, then they have too little routine with it. Similarly, it is with other components of an energy efficiency refinement: if this means a change of the "heating concept" for them, then experience also counts here again. For quite a few general contractors, a "tightening" of the energy efficiency requirements also means reorientation regarding the choice of the heating-ventilation subcontractor (and thus a changed "team lineup"). Your general contractor may therefore quite well "no longer be the same" as with the houses of your relatives. If the provider "only solves problems when they show up," the market cleanup after next could already be his last.