<h2>About Gindi Studio</h2>
<p>Gindi Studio is an architecture and interior design practice based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The studio is a collective of around 25 designers, architects and architectural engineers who describe themselves as wow makers - a reference to the Milton Glaser line the practice adopts as its standard: there are three responses to a piece of design, yes, no and wow, and wow is the one to aim for.</p>
<p>The studio is led by Vered Gindi, a registered architect who holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Tel Aviv University and a professional Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto. After extensive experience in Canada designing and delivering public buildings including schools and community centres, she returned to Israel and established the studio as a leading name in interior design for global and Israeli corporations.</p>
<h2>Design Philosophy</h2>
<p>Gindi Studio holds that intelligent design results from research, dialogue with clients and stakeholders, and genuine team effort rather than individual authorship. Its work aims to break down boundaries between different interior environments and create spaces people love working in.</p>
<p>Central to the approach is identifying the specific DNA and look and feel a client wants, then resolving it into a single coherent human experience of space. The studio places equal weight on practicality and user experience - a workplace must function efficiently and feel good to occupy, and the practice treats these as one problem rather than two.</p>
<h2>Services and Specialisms</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Architecture and interior design</strong> for complex projects</li>
<li><strong>Corporate workplace and office campus interiors</strong> - the core of the practice</li>
<li><strong>Public interiors</strong> - civic and shared environments</li>
<li><strong>Hotels and hospitality interiors</strong></li>
<li><strong>Graphic and product design</strong> integrated with spatial work</li>
<li><strong>Change management</strong> - supporting the organisational side of relocation alongside the design</li>
</ul>
<h2>Technology</h2>
<p>The studio combines architecture, interior design, graphics and product design with advanced technology that ties the disciplines together. It works with parametric design, BIM and 3D virtual reality to develop concepts into buildable reality, and is regarded as a leader in Revit within the Israeli market.</p>
<p>VR matters particularly in workplace design, where a client organisation must commit to an environment its staff have not yet experienced. Letting decision-makers walk through a space before construction reduces the risk of expensive late change.</p>
<h2>Change Management</h2>
<p>An unusual strength is the studio's involvement in corporate relocation as an organisational process, not only an architectural one. Moving a company into a new environment changes how people work, and resistance is common. Gindi Studio supports the internal communication and programme-building side of that transition alongside the design itself.</p>
<h2>Clients</h2>
<p>The practice has designed workplaces for major global technology and professional services organisations with operations in Israel, including Google, Microsoft, Mobileye, Oracle, Sapiens, BMC, Deloitte, and the development centres of General Motors and Daimler, alongside banking clients such as HSBC, Citibank and Bank Hapoalim.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Gindi Studio competes at the top of the Israeli corporate interiors market, where multinational technology companies expect international design standards delivered with local knowledge. Its combination of workplace specialism, technological capability and change management support is a genuine differentiator.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Gindi Studio</h2>
<p>For designers and clients working on workplace interiors, office campuses or corporate relocation, Gindi Studio offers a useful model of technology-led interior practice in the built environment.</p>

Gindi Studio is a Tel Aviv architecture and interior design practice specialising in corporate workplace, office campus, public interior and hotel projects.

Gindi Studio | Tel Aviv Workplace Interior Design

Gindi Studio

Gindi Studio is a Tel Aviv architecture and interior design practice of around 25 designers, specialising in corporate workplace interiors, office campuses, public interiors and hotels using BIM, parametric design and 3D VR.

<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>ShapeDo Ltd is a venture-backed construction technology company founded in 2014, with offices in Israel and London. It makes two products: <strong>ShapeDo</strong>, a collaborative design change management platform, and <strong>Purple Hammer</strong>, a desktop application for construction PDF and spreadsheet operations covering viewing, markup, measurement, comparison, takeoff and estimating.</p>
<p>Both are built on the company's drawing alignment and comparison engine, which can take two revisions of a construction drawing and make every addition, removal and alteration visible.</p>
<h2>ShapeDo - Design Change Management</h2>
<p>Construction projects run on drawings that change constantly, and information about those changes ends up scattered across PDF tools, spreadsheets, email and document platforms. Teams can usually find the latest drawing; what they struggle to know is exactly what changed since the last revision, who needs to review it, and what it does to quantities, cost and programme.</p>
<p>ShapeDo is the project-level, collaborative platform for keeping that under control. Its capabilities include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Automatic comparison of drawing revisions, highlighting exactly what was added, removed or altered between versions</li>
<li>Structured review workflows that route each change to the people responsible for assessing it, with assigned actions tracked to closure</li>
<li>Design issue logging and RFI management connected directly to the drawings in question</li>
<li>A complete, auditable history of drawing versions, reviews and decisions across the life of the project</li>
<li>Dashboards and records showing outstanding reviews and unresolved issues at project level</li>
</ul>
<h3>Across the Project Lifecycle</h3>
<p>ShapeDo is used throughout a project. During tendering and preconstruction, teams use it to identify design movement that affects scope, quantities or price. During delivery, design managers, project managers, commercial teams and consultants use it to coordinate reviews and keep change under control.</p>
<p>At the back end of a job, its records support change substantiation, final-account negotiations, claims analysis and dispute resolution, because the project can show precisely what changed, when, why and by whom.</p>
<p>Uncaught design changes are among the most common causes of contractor losses, and the reason is structural rather than careless: a revision can alter scope without anyone flagging it, and the cost only surfaces when the work is built. ShapeDo's purpose is to make sure no change goes unseen.</p>
<h2>Purple Hammer - Desktop PDF and Estimating</h2>
<p>Purple Hammer is a single-user desktop product for macOS and Windows, built for the construction industry's daily PDF and spreadsheet operations: viewing, marking up, measuring, comparing and organising drawing sets, and pricing what gets measured.</p>
<p>It suits anyone who spends their working day in construction PDFs, including site engineers and project managers, and goes deepest for estimators, quantity surveyors, contractors and specialist subcontractors - adding live estimating spreadsheets so measurement and pricing happen in one native application instead of the usual split between a PDF tool and Excel.</p>
<h3>Connected Takeoff and Estimate</h3>
<p>Measurements - lengths, areas, perimeters and counts - flow directly into built-in worksheets, where formulas, rates and cost databases turn quantities into a priced estimate. Because takeoff and estimate stay connected, a change in one updates the other.</p>
<p>When a revised drawing is issued, Purple Hammer aligns it with the previous version, shows the changed scope, keeps existing measurements intact, and lets the user re-measure and re-price only what changed rather than starting the takeoff again. On a large tender with several revision cycles, that difference compounds into days of recovered estimating time.</p>
<h3>Performance</h3>
<p>The application is engineered for speed on real-world drawing sets:</p>
<ul>
<li>A several-hundred-sheet PDF set opens in roughly a second</li>
<li>Automatic alignment and comparison of two revisions typically completes in one to two seconds</li>
<li>Pan and zoom run at 120 frames per second</li>
</ul>
<p>Performance matters more here than it might in other software categories, because estimators work against bid deadlines and a tool that stalls on a large set simply gets abandoned.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Markup and annotation</li>
<li>Calibrated measurement</li>
<li>Automatic drawing alignment</li>
<li>Overlays and blink comparison</li>
<li>Area and perimeter takeoff</li>
<li>Repeated-symbol counting</li>
<li>Drawing version history</li>
<li>Live estimating worksheets with formulas</li>
<li>Export of marked-up drawings and spreadsheet data</li>
</ul>
<h2>Who Uses It</h2>
<p>General and main contractors, specialist subcontractors, estimators, quantity surveyors, design managers, commercial managers, consultants, project controls teams and construction claims professionals across the AEC industry.</p>
<h2>Use Cases</h2>
<ul>
<li>Identifying scope movement between drawing revisions during tender</li>
<li>Routing design changes to the right reviewers and tracking them to closure</li>
<li>Producing measured takeoffs and priced estimates in a single application</li>
<li>Re-pricing only the changed scope when revisions land mid-tender</li>
<li>Substantiating variations and supporting final-account negotiation</li>
<li>Assembling evidence for claims and dispute resolution</li>
</ul>
<h2>The Two Products in One Line Each</h2>
<p><strong>ShapeDo</strong> helps project teams see, review and manage design changes collaboratively, and prove what changed later.</p>
<p><strong>Purple Hammer</strong> is a fast construction PDF and spreadsheet tool for viewing, markup, measurement and comparison, with estimating built in, so users re-price only what changed when revisions land.</p>

ShapeDo manages construction design change across drawing revisions; Purple Hammer is a desktop PDF app for markup, measurement, takeoff and live estimating.

Purple Hammer & ShapeDo | Drawing Change & Takeoff

Purple Hammer (shapeDo Ltd)

ShapeDo Ltd builds construction software: ShapeDo, a collaborative design change management platform that compares drawing revisions and routes reviews, and Purple Hammer, a fast desktop PDF and spreadsheet app for markup, measurement, comparison, takeoff and estimating.

<p>AHA (Auerbach Halevy Architects) is a leading Israeli architecture firm known for ambitious, large-scale residential and mixed-use developments. For the I.S. mixed-use complex, the team faced an extraordinary deadline: deliver a complete permit package for a 550,000 square foot project, five residential towers, a commercial podium, and five basement levels, in just one week. A project of this scale would normally demand weeks of coordinated documentation across a large team, with enormous pressure on both speed and accuracy. Any inconsistency across the towers or basement levels could jeopardize the permit submission. AHA partnered with SWAPP to make the timeline achievable. SWAPP's AI agents worked directly inside the firm's live Revit models, generating the repetitive documentation, views, sheets, tags, and schedules, across every tower and level to AHA's own standards, while the architects concentrated on coordination and the decisions that required judgment. Instead of manually rebuilding each drawing series for each tower, the team ran production as a controlled, rule-based process and reviewed the outputs. The result was a complete, consistent permit set delivered in a single week, at a scale and speed that would have been out of reach with a traditional manual workflow, and without sacrificing the quality or standards the firm and the authorities required.</p>

AHA delivers a 550,000 sq ft mixed-use permit package in one week with SWAPP

<p>SWAPP is operational intelligence for architecture. Instead of another chatbot bolted onto your workflow, SWAPP puts an agentic AI teammate, Frank, directly inside Revit and ArchiCAD, where it reads and writes your live model to do real production work: modeling, dimensions, tags, views, sheets, schedules, collision-solving, and QA.</p>
<p>What makes SWAPP different is that everything is grounded in your firm&rsquo;s own standards. SWAPP learns from your past projects, annotation habits, and QA rules, then enforces them on every new project. The result is complete construction document sets that look like your firm produced them, because, in effect, it did. Frank is the only AI Architect in the category that is not locked to a single authoring platform: it runs the same firm-tuned workflows in both Autodesk Revit and Graphisoft ArchiCAD.</p>
<p>The numbers are real. Firms use SWAPP to automate up to 80% of documentation tasks. Across a two-year span, SWAPP has delivered more than 35 million square feet of production-grade documents and saved over 104,000 production hours. Page designed a 270,000 sq ft student-housing project from concept to schematic design in three weeks with a 40% smaller team. AHA delivered a 550,000 sq ft permit package in a single week. MYS Architects reduced manual workload eightfold. HTA Design cut the team needed for Stage 4 documentation in half. SNHA, a Woolpert company, took work that used to take two weeks down to under 48 hours.</p>
<p>Every action Frank takes is traceable and reversible. Enterprise firms gate execution behind review steps, so automation earns trust over time rather than demanding it up front. SWAPP is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified and your data stays yours.</p>
<p>SWAPP now offers a low-commitment trial, so your team can select the capabilities you want and see Frank run on your own live projects before making a long-term commitment. It integrates with Revit, ArchiCAD, Autodesk Forma, Procore, Trimble, and the wider AECO ecosystem. Book a demo to see it on your work.</p>

SWAPP is operational intelligence for architecture. Its agentic AI teammate, Frank, works inside Revit and ArchiCAD, reading and writing your live model to…

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Capacity Increase:
Gindi Studio, a renowned architectural design firm headquartered in Tel Aviv, specializes in
office space design and has catered to some of the largest corporations in Israel. Over the
years, the studio has witnessed a surge in demand for its services.

“We have a magic tool called qbiq. Using the platform, we are able to deliver preliminary plans at light-speed, increasing our capacity and allowing us to take on more projects than we could initially manage”
Vered Gindi, Founder

Gindi Studio: Capacity Increase

<p>Qbiq is reshaping how commercial spaces are planned and visualized by leveraging advanced artificial intelligence. This innovative platform enables landlords, brokers, architects, and developers to generate test fits, floor plans, 3D walkthroughs, and material estimates in just minutes. By automating what typically takes weeks, Qbiq significantly reduces time to lease and design while increasing accuracy and scalability.<br><br>Designed to work with common file formats like PDFs, CAD, and DWG, Qbiq allows users to upload floor plans, set programming requirements, and instantly receive multiple layout options. Each layout comes with full documentation&mdash;editable CAD files, BIM-ready Revit models, and rendered 3D tours&mdash;making the platform a powerful tool from concept to delivery.<br><br>One of Qbiq&rsquo;s biggest advantages is its ability to support layout customization based on user-defined rules, including department sizes, adjacency preferences, and branding standards. The AI also provides quantity takeoffs, such as furniture counts and material data, helping teams better understand cost implications from the start. By streamlining both visualization and documentation, Qbiq empowers real estate professionals to move from plan to action faster and with greater confidence.<br><br>The company has already made a global impact. With over 650 million square feet of AI-generated designs and clients in more than 60 countries, Qbiq has proven its value across markets. Real estate firms using Qbiq report 40% faster leasing cycles and significantly higher efficiency. For example, Colliers Japan reduced its turnaround time for test fits to under 24 hours, dramatically improving client service and deal velocity.<br><br>Qbiq integrates seamlessly into existing workflows and exports fully editable plans, enabling architects and designers to build on AI-generated layouts rather than start from scratch. It also features enterprise tools like admin dashboards, user management, and custom planning engines tailored to specific corporate or project requirements.<br><br>Backed by top-tier investors including Insight Partners and JLL Spark, Qbiq recently closed a $16 million Series A funding round, following a $10 million seed round in 2023. The platform is rapidly gaining traction among leading architecture firms, design studios, and property management companies looking to scale operations, improve client engagement, and accelerate space planning.<br><br>Qbiq&rsquo;s combination of AI automation, customizable design logic, and real-time visualization offers a transformative approach to commercial space planning. Whether used for office fit-outs, coworking layouts, or landlord test fits, the platform delivers fast, data-driven results that align with real-world needs. Its ability to combine speed, accuracy, and design flexibility makes it a standout solution for the modern built environment.<br><br>As the architecture and real estate industries continue to embrace digital transformation, Qbiq is positioned as a leader in AI-powered design technology. By reducing friction in the planning process and enabling better decision-making, it is helping reshape how commercial spaces are imagined and delivered.</p>

qbiq

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13% Annual Revenue Increase: 
ROOMS by Fattal, a leading co-working chain, was looking to optimize their property's
potential to boost profitability. By utilizing qbiq, they were able to generate several layout
options for the floor, providing valuable insights into the space's efficiency and utilization,
ultimately maximizing revenue. 

“Though we had already constructed three floors in the building, qbiq identified 21 extra workstations that could be added
from our original construction plans” - Nadav Fattal, CEO

ROOMS Co-Work: 13% Annual Revenue Increase

<h2>About Avison Young</h2>
<p>Avison Young is a global commercial real estate services firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 1978, the company operates from more than 100 offices across some 20 countries and employs approximately 5,000 real estate professionals. It positions itself as a global real estate advisor invested in client success rather than as a transaction broker alone.</p>
<h2>The Principal-Led Model</h2>
<p>Avison Young's defining characteristic is its ownership structure. The firm is principal-led and majority owned by its Principals, a partnership arrangement that management retains deliberately.</p>
<p>This is more consequential than it first appears. In a brokerage business where individual producers are typically rewarded on personal commission, ownership by practising Principals changes the incentives - it rewards internal collaboration and referral between teams rather than the territorial behaviour that commission-only models tend to produce. The firm argues this aligns its advice with client objectives instead of with any individual's transaction pipeline.</p>
<h2>Integrated Service Approach</h2>
<p>The company deliberately eliminates service-line silos, organising capabilities around client requirements rather than internal business units. For an owner who needs valuation, leasing and property management on the same asset, that means one coordinated team rather than three separate engagements with competing internal interests.</p>
<h2>Services</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Leasing</strong> - tenant and landlord representation across all asset classes</li>
<li><strong>Investment sales</strong> - acquisition and disposition of commercial property</li>
<li><strong>Property and facilities management</strong> - day-to-day operation of owned assets</li>
<li><strong>Valuation and advisory</strong> - appraisal, due diligence and portfolio analysis</li>
<li><strong>Debt and equity financing</strong> - capital markets and structured finance</li>
<li><strong>Occupier solutions</strong> - workplace strategy, portfolio planning and location advice</li>
<li><strong>Advisory and planning</strong> - development consulting and asset strategy</li>
</ul>
<h2>Sectors Served</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Office</strong> - central business district and suburban workplace</li>
<li><strong>Retail</strong> - shopping centres, high street and mixed-use retail</li>
<li><strong>Industrial</strong> - logistics, distribution and manufacturing property</li>
<li><strong>Multi-family</strong> - rental residential portfolios</li>
<li><strong>Hospitality</strong> - hotels and leisure assets</li>
</ul>
<h2>Occupier Solutions</h2>
<p>The occupier side of the business advises organisations on how much space they need, where it should be and how it should perform. This has become considerably more complex since hybrid working reshaped office demand, and portfolio decisions now turn on utilisation data as much as on rent.</p>
<h2>Financial Position</h2>
<p>In 2024 the company completed a recapitalisation transaction with new capital investment, significantly strengthening its financial position while preserving the principal-led culture, with Principals and management retaining a significant majority ownership stake.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Avison Young competes with the largest global commercial real estate services firms, differentiating on its partnership ownership model and integrated, non-siloed delivery. Its clients include institutional investors, corporate occupiers, developers, lenders and public sector bodies.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Avison Young</h2>
<p>For developers, architects and consultants, commercial real estate advisors shape the economics that determine what actually gets built - what a market will lease, what an investor will fund and how an asset will be managed once complete. Avison Young is a useful reference point for that commercial layer of the built environment.</p>

Avison Young is a principal-led global commercial real estate firm offering leasing, investment sales, property management, valuation and occupier advisory serv

Avison Young | Global Commercial Real Estate

Avison-Young

Avison Young is a principal-led global commercial real estate advisory firm offering leasing, investment sales, property and facilities management, valuation, financing and occupier advisory services across office, retail, industrial, multi-family and hospitality assets.

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<p>Purple Hammer is native Mac and Windows construction takeoff and estimating software built&nbsp;around one idea: the drawing and the estimate should update together.</p>
<p>Every geometric markup is also a measurement and a live worksheet row. As users measure&nbsp;lengths, areas, perimeters, counts, volumes or wall quantities, Purple Hammer can pull rates from cost databases, calculate line totals and update the whole estimate instantly. There is&nbsp;no need to export quantities to Excel and manually stitch them back into a pricing model.</p>
<p>Key capabilities:</p>
<p>&nbsp; &bull; PDF markup, measurement and scale calibration<br>&nbsp; &bull; Metric and imperial quantities<br>&nbsp; &bull; Extremely fast (120 FPS pan &amp; zoom ; ~1 second to open a large set ; ~2 seconds auto-align)<br>&nbsp; &bull; Live estimating worksheets with Excel compatibility and extra estimating syntax<br>&nbsp; &bull; Flexible cost, assembly, crew, supplier and waste-factor via lookup databases<br>&nbsp; &bull; Power Syntax for project-wide, or specific meta scopes such as floor, building or discipline totals<br>&nbsp; &bull; Magic Measure (one-click measure)<br>&nbsp; &bull; Magic Count (find and counts repeated symbols by visual examples)<br>&nbsp; &bull; Vector, grid and raster-edge snapping<br>&nbsp; &bull; Watched-folder document control with rename-safe and move-safe tracking<br>&nbsp; &bull; Version history that keeps each drawing revision with its own takeoff<br>&nbsp; &bull; Automatic revision alignment, overlay and blink comparison<br>&nbsp; &bull; Multiple alignment candidates for drawings where different regions have moved<br>&nbsp; &bull; Marked-up PDF, Excel, PNG and comparison GIF export<br>&nbsp; &bull; Open MCP access for user-controlled AI workflows</p>
<p>&nbsp; Purple Hammer&rsquo;s document control works with the folders teams already use, without importing<br>&nbsp; managed sets or manually slip-sheeting revisions. When a revised drawing arrives, users can<br>&nbsp; align it with the previous version, see what was added, moved or removed, and re-measure<br>&nbsp; only the difference. The live estimate updates from those changes.</p>
<p>&nbsp; The native viewer is designed for large construction sets, targeting 120 FPS pan and zoom<br>&nbsp; and keeping project performance focused on the drawings currently in use. Purple Hammer runs<br>&nbsp; as a desktop application on macOS and Windows and includes a 30-day free trial.</p>

Purple Hammer

Genda automates construction workflow management by generating and analyzing real-time project data. We generate valuable field data, integrate to the relevant data sources, and provide game-changing insights to construction managers. Construction managers can receive real-time, location-based notifications on punch lists, inspection logs, suggestions, hazards and unscheduled work. Genda automates daily reports and integrates project information with time spent for reliable production rates. Real-time location-based alerts notify workers of on-site safety hazards.

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Skyline Cockpit leverages advanced robotics and automation technologies for crane remote operation.<br /><br />BOOST CRANE OPERATION TIME BY 23%<br />Skyline cockpit eliminates the need to climb up and down the crane, enabling operators to work safely from a comfortable command centre even in challenging weather conditions and reduced visibility. <br /><br />INCREASE CRANE PRODUCTIVITY BY 8%<br />With a 360-degree panoramic site view, a clear viewpoint of the load line and hook, crane and weather indicators, and optimized multi-crane management, operators can achieve an 8% increase in crane operation productivity. <br /><br />Skyline Cockpit Technology<br />- Multi-Angle Camera System - Using multi cameras placed on the tower crane, we display a panoramic view<br />capturing every essential angle, including perspectives from the trolley winch, lift winch, and the cabin and a clear view<br />of the hook and load line.<br />- Cutting-Edge Software Fusion & AR - Our sophisticated software process interweave these visuals to presents a unified, intuitive display, enabling the crane operator to oversee diverse operational elements concurrently. On top of that, we offer an AR layer that anticipates the exact landing spot in real time.<br />- Enhancing Remote Indicators - Our proprietary algorithms and patented applications empower operators with real-time alerts and critical data, including safety warnings, based on weather and wind data during lifting tasks.

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Gindi Studio

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