Services

AREP has been developing its core activity around stations and interchange hubs for almost 20 years, both in France and abroad.
We can thus boast:

A solid experience in rehabilitating, redeveloping and modernizing old buildings, including sites which need to operate normally during works.

Long-established skills which enable us to undertake projects involving urban mobility and pedestrian flows management issues

The acknowledged capacity to “export” our knowledge and skills to different sectors and for the benefit of a wide range of international clients by undertaking large urban projects or the project management relating to public-accessed sites.

AREP has always been organised as a multidisciplinary design office where all skills are complementary.
Over time we have incorporated new specialisations to address the challenging issues raised by mobility.
AREP is currently organised around seven main activities encompassing all the technical expertise required to execute programmes at every scale.

We have developed specific tools and processes to improve cooperation between the various disciplines and to ensure the flawless management of studies and monitoring of projects

Philippe Druesne, Methods and Innovation Director

Architecture

Our teams have developed an outstanding expertise in organizing public-accessed sites and in mixing various complex programmes to create spaces which contribute to urban development

François Pradillon, Institutional Relations Manager

The design process is supported by extensive experience in designing buildings with major functional constraints, particularly busy focal points within complex urban programmes such as intermodal transport hubs, amenities, and mixed programmes.

AREP’s architecture teams have tackled a wide variety of programmes and have always shared the same commitment to submit a project suited to the needs, lifestyles and quest for identity of contemporary society.

Architectural studies

Pedestrian flows research

Construction economics

SCMC (Scheduling, construction, management and coordination)

Design

Designers start their work from small scale usages and question the relations between items, people and places before extending their reflection to every space where people live and move

Isabelle Le Saux, Design Director

AREP’s Design division is composed of a multidisciplinary team who has developed a unique expertise in conceiving public-accessed spaces.

It comprises experts in designing furniture and public spaces or creating and implementing fixed and dynamic information systems, as well as interior architects, designers and graphic designers with a view to satisfying our clients’ needs.

Design

Interior architecture

Graphic design and signage

Space conceptualization Design

Town planning

Drawing on evolving uses and mobility habits, AREP Ville has been working hand in hand with local authorities for many years to transform train stations and their surroundings into places of exchange and urban centrality

Fabienne Couvert, Architecture, Urban planning and territories Director

In AREP Ville, we consider that city planning must take into account mobility considerations.
Whether on a large, regional scale or the smaller scale of public spaces, the area in question is considered in terms of strategic scenarios and development potential. Studies extend from programme planning to definition of urban form and creation of public spaces, and include land development, funding, and operating methods.

AREP Ville works closely with local authorities at the concept stage and schedules operations over time to ensure the area is organized sustainably. It focuses on improving mobility to promote pedestrian flow and green modes of transport.

Assessment, methods and approaches

Sustainable development and programme planning

Contracting authority support (consulting, assessment, advice)

Environment and landscape

Mobility and intermodality studies

Urban project management, roads and services infrastructure

Civil Engineering

AREP Group provides all types of specialisations and expertises. This multidisciplinarity, which is one of its main features, ensures the permanent dialogue between all the people who form part of our collaborative design process

Hervé Botté, Civil Engineering & Consulting Director

The teams of engineers share with designers the project’s objectives and contribute to its development by combining their skills.

Their constant priorities are technical optimisation, sustainable development and economy of means.

The various engineering spheres are brought together in a common pool of skills and technical resources.

Structural design
Air quality and climate control
Noise control
Lighting
Construction economics
civil engineering
electrical & mechanical engineering
Security et fire safety
sustainable development and environmental design

Flows and Mobility

AREP developed an analytical approach taking into consideration both usage and temporality. These elements are vital in understanding the way spaces function and optimising their design over time

Nicolas Augris, Head of Mobility Department

Video AREP Mobility - Traffic and Flow
© AREP 2016 / Director Damien Boulier

A specific expertise was developed by AREP Group in the field of urban mobility to support the contracting authorities, designers and operators in the redevelopment of public spaces, design of new structures or site operation.
Our expertise applies not only to pedestrians but extends to buildings and even beyond, to larger areas and the transport networks that structure them.

Pedestrian flow analysis mainly concerns transportation (public or private, motorised or active etc.) but equally all spaces that concentrate considerable amounts of people which must be dealt with, such as museums, sports facilities and shopping centres.

Passenger counting and client surveys
Assessment and analysis of pedestrian traffic
Design of circulation and waiting areas
Intermodality programming
Transport planning
Strategies of crowd management during works, service disruptions or important events
Traffic and pedestrian analysis and modeling

AREP Mobility, optimise public space design by better understanding mobilité and traffic demand

Built heritage

Stations have always been at the heart of the urban and architectural projects undertaken by cities. They are mobility-related spaces and as such reflect changes in society. By working on built heritage thoughtfully, we gain the tools enabling us to constantly invent the stations of tomorrow

Veronique Veston, Conservation architect - Head of AREP Built Heritage unit

Placing our expertise in built heritage
at the heart of your environmental challenges

Our 900 architects, conservation architects, urban planners, designers, engineers, construction economists, programming consultants, and researchers develop methods aimed at restoring and conserving built heritage in the city and territories of tomorrow.
Through heritage we introduce innovations that help meet climate challenges, improve the living environment, keep historic buildings alive and vibrant, as well as safeguard historic centres by improving their energy performance and preserving natural resources.

From survey to strategy: a unique method tailored to complex and uncommon situations

The industrial and railway built heritage is exceptionally rich and AREP's complex and challenging projects contribute to protecting and highlighting it. Workshops, historic monuments, 19th and 20th-century giant superstructures have inspired unique restoration and rehabilitation methods bringing together science and engineering, history and culture.

A wide range of services to meet your needs

We provide project management services and act as consultants to contracting authorities in the following fields:

Built heritage surveys
Expertise in defining the value of built heritage
Programming studies regarding heritage sites
Built heritage restoration studies and works
Urban studies regarding old city centres
Restoration and re-use strategies
3D imagery
Modelling and calculations
Heritage-related educational activities and communication
Involvement of professional and community networks

AREP's built heritage unit brings together top professionals trained in restoration and conservation methods. The unit is made up of conservation architects, engineers, researchers, archivists, and art historians specializing in historic monuments and heritage sites.

Programming

Our knowledge of urban amenities enables us to assist our clients in complex financial contexts and provide them with contrasting briefs that deliver our prospective reflections while combining ambition and understanding of needs

Catherine Gatineau, Director of Strategy and Programming

AREP Group is present in many sectors through Parvis and Menighetti, thus mastering the process of programming which allows to best achieve the desired outcome for the urban or architectural project.

Programming studies take place at the same time as the spatial and functional organisation of the project and engage all of the stakeholders (users, operators, investors and decision-makers) in a process for decision-making uncovering constraints, needs and expectations. The process begins at the pre-design phase of the project and goes through all the steps until the delivery of the building to operators. All along, our experts assist their clients and listen to their needs at every stage.

Urban and architectural programming

Master planning of services and facilities

Property and land assessment

Programming and transportation

Design

Accessibility to persons with reduced mobility

Environmental approaches

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Project management

AREP Group developed through its subsidiary Parvis comprehensive skills in project management and project coordination.
Our experience in managing projects relating to train stations resulted in our ability:

To carry out complex projects which bring together public and private stakeholders
to assist and support our clients by providing advice and expertise on specific issues such as accessibility for persons with reduced mobility or the implementation of new services.

Present at every stage of a given project – scheduling, research, studies, launch of consultation projects, construction, and handover – project coordinators ensure compliance with cost, quality, lead-time targets, and risk prevention.

Project coordination
Expertise