Ruppin and Jezreel Valley: three academic buildings, dormitories
An academic building rises inside a working campus, and that is an engineering constraint in its own right: you cannot close the campus for two years. Three completed buildings at two colleges.
Building on a working campus is the category where the binding constraint is not planning but logistics: thousands of people go on studying tens of metres from the site, and that cannot be stopped for two years.
Tawfik Zidan Ltd has three completed academic buildings, at two colleges:
Three academic buildings
- Faculty of engineering and nursing
- Ruppin Academic Center · completed
- Ruppin dormitories
- Hefer Valley · 146 dormitory rooms · completed
- Nursing building
- Jezreel Valley College · completed
- Field
- Public buildings — academia
146 rooms: what that number says
Student dormitories are a residential building that is not sold. A building of 146 dormitory rooms includes common areas, corridors, kitchenettes and systems.
Such a building is dense in systems relative to its area: 146 rooms mean 146 sets of plumbing, electrical and communications inside one envelope, and a schedule derived — again — from an academic year.
Two nursing buildings, two colleges
The faculty of engineering and nursing at Ruppin and the nursing building at the Jezreel Valley College are both nursing teaching buildings — a category with a particular demand: it includes laboratories and simulation rooms that mimic a clinical setting, making it a teaching building with a clinic's systems.
In engineering the same logic runs the other way: laboratories with floor loads, ventilation and connection points that an ordinary classroom does not have.
A college as client
A budgeted academic institution acts as a public body for procurement: work is awarded by tender, under the Mandatory Tenders Law, 5752-1992, with a requirement for a registered and suitable contractor classification, and with supervision on the client's behalf and performance guarantees. Classification is explained in the article on it, and the contrast with selling apartments in the article on the Nesher education campus.
Reach: Hefer Valley, the Sharon and the Jezreel Valley
Ruppin sits in the Hefer Valley and the Jezreel Valley College in the Jezreel Valley — alongside Sha'ar HaIr in Afula and Trio BaEmek in Migdal HaEmek. In the Sharon, not far from Ruppin, is the Ra'anana project — 89 housing units in Neve Zemer, completed. Details in the article on Achuzat Zemer in Ra'anana and the article on Sha'ar HaIr.
The full list of public buildings is in the article on them, and all the projects on the projects page.
Questions and answers
How many rooms are in the Ruppin dormitories?
146 dormitory rooms.
Which academic buildings has the company built?
The faculty of engineering and nursing at Ruppin, the Ruppin dormitories in the Hefer Valley, and the nursing building at the Jezreel Valley College. All three are completed.
What are the floor areas of the faculty and nursing buildings?
The figures will be published.
How is work for a budgeted academic institution awarded?
By tender, under the Mandatory Tenders Law, 5752-1992, with a requirement for a registered and suitable contractor classification, supervision on the client's behalf and performance guarantees.
What is particular about building on a working campus?
The campus keeps operating alongside the site, so access routes, safety, noise and construction phasing are set around the academic year's schedule.
Updated 17.09.2026
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