Updating the law regarding the addition of protected apartment space to a low-rise housing unit or a detached housing unit

Adding a portable safe room to a residential building

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 do cultural differences affect real estate purchases?

Residential Real Estate Acquisition Consulting

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.

Does obtaining a building permit constitute approval for the start of construction work?

Construction Site

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'.

Submitting an Application for a Building Permit – Information File for a Permit

Permits

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.

Submitting applications in a shortened licensing process

Permits

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.

Personal opinion – Has the State of Israel decided to stop private construction?

Plot for planning

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?

Mamad preparations for casting concrete

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

Invalid building licensing regulation

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 building a safe room

Construction of a standard safe room

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

Why is there no small mobile homes in Israel?

Tiny Houses

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.

Israeli Culture – Israeli Architecture

Israeli Architecture

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

'Save a shekel' – build cheaply

Israeli Architecture

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

Architect's cost for a private home

Demolition Order - Construction Offenses

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.

Tiny houses – is it really cheaper?

Tiny Houses

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 – What is my role in the force?

Dolev-Shalev family home

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

Expand a private home

The Litov Family Home - General Appearance

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.

What should you check before buying a detached house?

Pampering house for older people up to 130 sqm

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'.

Design and design of luxury villas

Raham family home, Binyamina

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.

Costs of building a private home

A house of 160 M does not include covered parking

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.

Easy construction

View of a steel skeleton under light construction

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 on the purchase of an apartment and a home

Consulting and styling for a contractor's apartment

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.

Extra floor for private home through light construction

Addition-Construction-In-Kibbutz

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.

Add a room to your home

Easy construction addition to an existing home

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...

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