Company profile: Yaakov Avital Ltd., quantity surveying
Yaakov Avital Ltd. is a quantity surveying company founded in 2024. The company prepares quantity takeoffs and bills of quantities, measured like a contractor, for residential, public, office, commercial and hotel projects, throughout Israel and remotely for projects abroad. The company's manager, Yaakov Avital, is a registered building technician with hands-on construction experience since 2012: with a developer, with contractors and in a tender department.
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The manager's CV is on the CV page, and the projects, with years and clients, are on the Projects page.
Company details
| Name | Yaakov Avital Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Company no. | 516990173 |
| Founded | 2024 |
| Manager | Yaakov Avital |
| Field | Quantity surveying: quantity takeoff and bills of quantities; pricing and estimates as an extra service |
| Service area | Throughout Israel, and remote work for projects abroad |
| Website | yaakovavital.co.il |
Areas of work
- A bill of quantities for contractors, for tender and for construction, divided into chapters and phases, in a structure that can be sent out to contractors for pricing.
- Quantity takeoff from PDF and DWG drawings and from BIM models (Revit, Autodesk Takeoff), with a quantity calculation file that shows where every quantity came from.
- Comparison of contractors' bids on a common basis.
- Pricing and estimates as an extra service: verbal feedback together with the client, with no commitment; for public bodies, an estimate by a known, published price list.
- Checking payment applications, quantities and variations during construction.
- Cross-checking quantities between the model, the drawings, the specification and the consultants' bills of quantities.
Project types
- Multi-storey residential buildings and Pinui-Binui urban renewal (demolish and rebuild, with new flats for the residents), with piles, shoring and basements.
- Public buildings and healthcare facilities: building extensions at hospitals in operation, and a review of the cost estimate for a hospital tower.
- Commercial and office buildings, including a lump-sum tender for a commercial building of about 33,000 m².
- Hotels and assisted living.
- Urban infrastructure.
- Private houses and interior renovations.
Working method
- Receiving the material. PDF and DWG drawings, the Revit model if there is one, specifications and consultants' bills of quantities.
- Breakdown and cross-checking. Division into chapters, types, zones and versions, and comparison between the sources.
- Producing the bill of quantities. Items, units, quantities, notes and sources.
- Summary and control. Chapter summaries, variations, gaps and decision points.
Every quantity rests on a source, every assumption is written down, and missing data is marked as missing, not as zero.
The manager's certifications and training
- Registered building technician. Listed in Israel's register of certified technicians, Ministry of Labour (search the register, in Hebrew). Building technician diploma from 2018.
- Certified works manager. Works manager certification in building and civil engineering construction (2020), from the Ministry of Labour (search the Ministry's register of service providers, in Hebrew).
- Occupational safety officer. Completed the course for occupational safety officers and passed the final exams: Handasa BaGova college, 331 study hours, 2020 to 2021 (certificate, PDF in Hebrew).
- Work-at-height instructor. Completed the course for work-at-height instructors (2020).
- Building defect inspection (home inspection). A government course for people with a background in the field, at Habonim College (the college's site, in Hebrew): 484 hours in 2021 to 2022, with the government final exams. Certificate no. 1471330.
- Court expert witness. Completed the course for court expert witnesses (2021).
- Revit Structure. Completed a Revit Structure course, 3D structural design in Revit: CivilEng Academy, February 2026 (certificate, PDF in Hebrew).
- Professional liability insurance. Insured under a professional liability policy.
Software
Revit · AutoCAD · Autodesk Takeoff · Navisworks · Excel · Dekel · Binarit · Ramdor · Ziv (contractor accounts) · MS Project · Priority · Python for automation
The AiN software
Yaakov Avital also develops AiN, software that produces a bill of quantities from a BIM model: it links the Revit model to the bill of quantities, and every quantity has a source in the model. Details on the AiN software page.
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