AREP - Key Persons
Philippe Bihouix studied at the Ecole Centrale de Paris. He began his career as a construction manager in a general contracting firm before switching to consulting. In 2009, he joined the SNCF group to manage the European rail freight activities. As a consultant engineer, Philippe Bihouix gained experience in many industrial sectors (energy, chemistry, transport, building engineering, aeronautics) before becoming a leading expert on non-renewable resources and low-tech solutions. He has been appointed to the AREP Board of directors as Managing director in order to implement the company's new strategy and contribute to the sector' s ecological transformation.
Raphaël Ménard studied at the Ecole Polytechnique, the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture. He began his career at RFR (design of the Simone de Beauvoir footbridge in Paris and the glass shell of the Strasbourg train station). In 2003, he founded Elioth, a company made up of designers specializing in low-carbon innovation (acquired by the Egis group in 2011). In 2014, he created 169-architecture. He is also a lecturer on the postgraduate program in Post-Carbon Architecture at the Marne-la-Vallée School of Architecture. He theorized his practice in numerous publications, including his Ph.D thesis Energy, Matter, Architecture. In 2018, he joined AREP as Chairman of the Board.