Quick procedure for adding protected space to an apartment
Quick procedure for adding protected space to the apartment.
Planning and Building Regulations, as a one-year temporary order. Works and buildings exempt from permits
Quick procedure for adding protected space to the apartment.
Planning and Building Regulations, as a one-year temporary order. Works and buildings exempt from permits
Updating the law regarding the addition of protected apartment space to a low-rise housing unit or a detached housing unit.
Adding a safe room to a private home for rapid occupancy and construction of safe rooms without a permit
How does inflation affect the real estate market?
Is there a way to slow inflation?
Is there a link between real estate activity and inflation?
What can the Israeli government do to encourage real estate activity?
Planning income-producing properties
In the State of Israel there are many buildings without use.
Abandoned buildings, closed factories, shops in outdated shopping complexes that are not in use.
How do cultural differences affect real estate purchases? The cultural differences between Israel and most countries in the Western world in the field of real estate transactions. These differences directly affect the type of real estate transactions, and the future goals in terms of residence and income from those transactions.
What is required to submit a planning information file?
How do I submit a request for a planning information file?
What are the screens required in submitting an application for a planning information file?
Validity of a measurement map
A measurement map is the basis for any building design, and afterwards, applying for a building permit.
Does obtaining a building permit constitute approval for the start of construction work?
Obtaining a building permit makes it impossible to start working, in practice in the field.
In the face of the new regulations, of the Planning and Building Administration, we had to issue a permit to start work on the site.
The supervision and enforcement departments of the planning and building committees and the municipal engineering departments, throughout the State of Israel, were instructed to immediately stop all work that began without obtaining a permit to start work.
In other words, a 'stop-work order'.
Did you know what an information file for a permit is?
An information file for a permit is the first, preliminary stage, before planning by architects has begun.
That is, before an application for a building permit was submitted to the Planning and Building Committee or the Municipal Engineering Department.
Did you know that some of the works in the licensing process in a shortened way are exempt from information for a permit?
The Planning and Building Administration, has been operating for the past few years,
On updating the Planning and Building Law, and its regulations.
This is a goal to streamline and shorten the licensing process.
Construction offenses are common in Israel.
We are usually required to take care of them and arrange them, when we sell or buy a property.
Sometimes we are required to submit a building permit for them, following a 'property survey' or as a result of a denunciation by one of our neighbors.
A trend that began already in 2020, with the cancellation and freezing of tenders for plots for private construction.
For a long time now, I have been wondering, between myself and myself, whether the decision makers in the State of Israel are consciously trying to shut down the architectural planning industry, and in particular the field of private construction?
What is the difference between a mobile and migunit protected space?
Every Israeli knows that in Israel, especially in border areas, there are mobile mugged spaces, as well as 'migonas'.
But most people don't really know what the differences between them are.
This article, comes to make some order between things.
An employment contract with a planner who is not an architect.
Professionals, who are not architects, present themselves as having a degree in architecture.
Among them are interior designers, architectural engineers and structural engineers.
Architects bear professional responsibility for the buildings they design. Responsibility that stands before the law, vis-à-vis the licensing and planning bodies, and the Ministry of the Interior.
Fast track for the construction of a safe room. On 19.12.2021, new regulations for adding safe rooms were published. In December 2021, the Home Front Command issued a decision calling on people to add a safe room in a shortened procedure, so that every home in Israel would be protected
Construction and illegal construction offenses in Israel. In the case of closing a balcony illegally, using an advanced-green construction method.
Why is there no small mobile homes in Israel? In many countries in the Western world, people choose to live in a small mobile home or the foreign name Tiny Houses. Unfortunately, in Israel, it is not really possible to live in small mobile homes.
This is due to several interrelated factors.
Why do I need an architect to design a house for me. I want a 160sqm house, but 'steal' me some small basement, a rental unit. I need you to sketch for me and get me a permit. No work plans, no supervision. Why do I even need an architect if I can take some building engineer or some young interior designer, who will just sketch for me
People who are not architects, present themselves as having a degree in architecture. Among them are interior designers, architectural engineers and structural engineers. Architects bear professional responsibility for the buildings they design. 'Save a shekel' – build cheaply
When we come to hire design and licensing services from architects, we pay for the labor fees.
The work includes: architectural planning, applying for a building permit, or another licensing procedure, producing work plans, and carrying out supreme supervision in the field. In addition, we can rent interior design services, tour of shops, professional consulting services, etc.
The average duration of the procedure from the initial planning of the house, to the completion of its construction, takes about two years. Sometimes even more.
It's not a 'fashion trend' to live in a small house.
or by the foreign name Tiny Houses
In many countries of the world, people choose to live sparingly.
For various reasons. Some are ideological, some are economic, and some are related to different characteristics of their way of life.
In Israel, many people turn to me to find out the construction costs of tiny homes.
The main reason for choosing this way of life is in order to reduce the costs of living – the cost of living, and hence the costs of building the project.
But if I look at the construction budget costs of these types of projects, I'm not at all sure they're cheaper.
Ground house architecture. My job as an architect is to maintain this atmosphere throughout all stages of the project. The beauty of the architecture profession is in the combination of architectural thinking and creativity
The expansion of the house can be reflected, as the addition of a room or several rooms to the house. Both as an addition of a floor, and as the addition of a meter, also expanding an existing floor or closing a balcony in favor of adding a single room, is an extension of a house.
As an expert architect of private construction alongside the characterization, design and planning of my clients' private home, I believe that it is my job to be also a kind of gatekeeper for them. The following article is based precisely on this approach, and lists the tests that allow me and you to economize our steps, and ensure a fun, exciting and free process of unwanted 'surprises'.
Are you also planning luxury villas?
I tried to understand with myself, as an architect, what distinguishes or significantly distinguishes between a 'standard' villa and a 'luxury' villa.
The difference is hardly reflected in the architectural design or construction of the structure itself, but in the cosmetic and design aspects, which concern the personal tastes of each and every one of us.
When we consider building ourselves a private home, we know that we need to hire an architect who will accompany us throughout the procedure. In addition to hiring a construction engineer, a contractor, and some of us even know that for the purposes of the task, a qualified surveyor must be harnessed, and several other consultants. Let alone when we think about renovating or expanding our home.
Following many conversations with families interested in building with easy construction methods, I have noticed that sometimes people do not really understand what this concept means.
This time, I deal with the issue of light construction more widely, and presented it as a whole.
I wrote the article in two parts, in order to make some order in this whole mess.
In the first part I will tell you about the light construction and we will go down together to the different resolutions that characterize it.
In the second part of the article, I will detail my 'role in power' as an expert architect on this subject.
Consulting to buy an apartment, what is his job? And how can he help? In the following article, I will explain my role as an architect, in providing advice on purchasing an apartment and a house with a variety of examples and aspects.
Adding a floor to our private home is definitely a 'weighty' decision for all that this implies, so I decided to focus on this article on the benefits of light construction.
The desire to increase the area of our home carries a lot of excitement, alongside the aspects and wonders about the process. My goal in the planning and architectural accompaniment work is to adapt expectations to the conditions in the area, after careful examination of the existing building and building rights, combined with the most practical and effective solution, to connect additional construction to the house. If you are thinking of expanding your private home, this article deals with points...