Ron has been building his whole working life. He started off gaining 3 years of valuable experience ‘on the tools,’ working initially as a site foreman and then as a site manager. Here, he was involved in both new-build high-rise and small-scale ref…

Amir Kedar

Founding Partner

Amir is a highly experienced engineer with over 30 years of experience, working on projects in Israel and abroad. His main fields of interest are bridge maintenance management, bridge retrofitting & rehabilitation, marine structures, steel structures and underground cut & cover projects.

He wrote the guidance for bridge maintenance management in Israel, running courses on bridge inspection, and refurbishment & maintenance for the Highways Authority. He served as Head of the European TU1406 COST Action working group 4 ‘Quality control Plans for Highway Bridges – Case Studies’, and is one of the founders of ‘EuroStruct - European Association on Quality Control of Bridges and Structures’. He also sits on the Israeli Standards committee for earth retaining structures.

In collaboration with the Technion, he has pioneered research into an innovative bridge surveying method, called SeeBridge, creating semantically enriched BIM models from survey data, to provide meaningful information needed for project life-cycle decision making, targeted for use within the US and European Union. This work has been published in academic articles.

Amir began his career at YSS Consulting Engineers in 1993, where he worked on a number of projects including Rutenberg Coal unloading Pier, Ben-Gurion 2000 Airport, Tzalmon Prison, and various MoD projects. In 1999, he moved into project management for M Kedar Engineers, working on projects such as the Kiryat-Gat Court-House and the Moda’i and Exhibition Bridges in Tel-Aviv, before establishing Kedmor with Raz in 2001.

Recent projects of note include Arlosoroff underground station of the Tel Aviv LRT, Petach-Tikvah Belinson LRT Station, Underpass and Metropolitan Bus Terminal, the seismic retrofitting of Naharim, Meshushim and Snir bridges, as well as the design, rehabilitation and replacement of a large number of bridges and road structures in the north and south of Israel. Amir has also designed a number of naval marine structures.

A graduate Summa Cum Laude of the Technion, he holds a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering, a Master’s in Construction Management and is a Licensed Structural Engineer in Israel.