Founded in Elmhurst in 2019. Licensed in New York City and Westchester County. Built around one idea: somebody has to be accountable for the whole job.
Kadima Construction was founded in 2019, and the reason had less to do with construction than with coordination.
Hector and Mario Bocel spent eight years working in remodeling before starting the company. Those years were spent on other people's jobsites, in other people's systems, on the crews that actually execute the work rather than the offices that sell it, which is a particular vantage point. You see every promise made at the kitchen table, and then you see what happens to it once the work starts.
What they saw repeat, project after project, was not bad craftsmanship. The trades were usually competent. The failures lived in the seams between them: a completion date that nobody actually owned, a materials order that arrived three weeks after the crew needed it, a homeowner holding four phone numbers and mediating between contractors who each blamed the one before. Nobody lied to anybody. There was simply no single person for whom the whole outcome was their problem.
They also noticed something smaller that clients mentioned more often than any of it: what it is like to live in a house while it is being worked on. Dust that migrates into rooms nobody touched. A site cleaned at the end of the job rather than the end of the day. Families eating dinner around a renovation for weeks longer than anyone told them to expect.
Kadima was started to run the opposite arrangement, deliberately, as the actual product rather than as a promise added at the end.
One crew lead owns the project from demolition to final walk-through: the same person, the whole way through, accountable for the outcome rather than for one trade inside it. The schedule is set before demolition, not discovered during it, which means the things that genuinely move a completion date (the permit path, the long-lead materials) get identified at the estimate while they can still be planned around. And the jobsite is cleaned at the end of every working day, because most clients stay in their homes throughout, and that should be a plan rather than an endurance test.
Those three commitments sound modest written down. In practice they are the entire difference between a renovation people describe as stressful and one they describe as fine.
The company has grown since 2019 into kitchens, bathrooms, basements, full-home renovations and the trade work that supports them, from tile and flooring to drywall, paint and carpentry, across Queens, Westchester County and the Bronx. Bathrooms remain what we are asked for most.
What has not changed is the arrangement the company was built on.
Both owners are still on site. Not only in the estimate conversation, and not only when something goes wrong. The standard the crew is held to is the standard they set in person, which is the only way we know to keep a standard from drifting as a company grows.
We would rather tell a homeowner at the estimate that their basement cannot legally be a bedroom, or that their board will reject the layout they want, than discover it together in week four. That is not a service philosophy. It is just the arrangement working the way it was meant to.
This matters more than it sounds, and most homeowners do not know to ask about it.
The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection licenses home improvement contractors operating in the five boroughs. This is the license that covers our work in Queens and the Bronx.
The county's Department of Consumer Protection issues a separate Home Improvement License, valid county-wide. It licenses the contractor, not the project. Every one of the county's 48 municipalities permits work independently.
A contractor licensed only in New York City is not licensed to perform home improvement work in Westchester County, and the reverse is equally true. Westchester County law requires licensed contractors to display the number in advertising, which is why ours appears on every page of this site.
Call the Westchester County Department of Consumer Protection at (914) 995-2155 for the county license, where you can also ask about outstanding judgments or liens. Licensed contractors in the county are also required to display a green sticker on the rear bumper of their vehicles showing the license expiration date.
Gas line connections in New York City must be performed by a licensed master plumber. That is a legal requirement, not a preference. Westchester County licenses plumbers and electricians separately from home improvement contractors. Those trades carry their own credentials on our jobs, and we produce that documentation with the permit filing.
General liability: $1,000,000.
That figure is not decoration. Co-op and condo boards across Queens and the Bronx routinely require a certificate of insurance naming the building, the managing agent and often the board itself as additional insured before work can begin, and a contractor who cannot produce a compliant COI does not get past the door regardless of how good the work is. Ours is in place before we quote.
Workmanship warranty: one year. Every project we complete carries a one-year warranty on our own labour and installation. Manufacturer warranties on materials and fixtures run separately, for whatever term the manufacturer sets.
Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, Corona, Rego Park, Woodside, Forest Hills and the rest of the borough.
is where we are focused on growing, with dedicated pages for Bronxville, New Rochelle, Scarsdale and White Plains.
We also work in the Bronx.
The county is really two housing markets, and it is worth knowing which one your house belongs to. The Hudson river villages hold Victorian and early-twentieth-century homes: plaster over lath, cast-iron waste lines. Inland, the postwar build dominates: Cape Cods, split-levels and brick-veneer Colonials from the 1950s through the 1970s. The split runs along the river rather than north to south, and it changes how a project is scoped.
Every project runs the same four steps: a site visit with a written scope and price, a schedule and permit path agreed before demolition, a build run by one crew lead with the site cleared daily, and a walk-through where the punch list is completed before we call it done.
We want to hear about your project! Fill out our contact form with your details and vision. Whether it's a full home, kitchen, or bathroom remodel, let's turn your house into the most practical and beautiful home in your neighborhood.
After reviewing your info, we'll reach out the same day or within the next day to have a conversation about your goals, answer preliminary questions, and determine the best approach for your home.
We conduct an on-site consultation for an initial fee starting at $300, depending on the size and scope of your project. During this visit, we inspect the site, evaluate existing conditions, and discuss your ideas in detail. The good news is the fee will be included in the project's total price if we move forward together.
We discuss key project details including budget, timeline, and materials to map out the entire scope. Once we align on the plan, we review the contract together to ensure you have complete clarity and feel fully confident before moving forward.
In this phase, we provide you a professional design for your project so you can visualize your ideas. This helps solve any doubts or stress you may have before construction begins.
Tell us your marvelous ideas for your home, and we'll work right alongside you to make them a reality.
