Category Archives: Programming, project management and operation set-up
Project management
We provide assistance to project managers both in terms of technical aspects and in how to select the best contracting team. During the design and works phase, our teams provide expert help to ensure complete cohesion between the programme and the final project.
Project management assistance for the reconversion of the Versailles post office into a hotel
Poste Immo was examining the possibility of reconverting the Versailles post office into a hotel, and wished to mandate an experienced firm to:
- Confirm the need for a hotel in the area, eventual commercial positioning and product offer (capacity / services)
- Define the specifications for hotel investors / operators in order to launch a tender process and prepare the relevant documents
- Assist in the search for a hotel operator during the tender process and advise on the operator selection with regard to profitability, image, risk criteria, etc.
Edgar Clerc museum of amerindian archaeology
Since its opening in 1984, the Edgar Clerc museum of Amerindian archaeology (“Musée de France”) has been reorganised on several occasions. From 2006 onwards, the objective has been to produce a scientific and cultural project (“PSC”) and to implement works on the collections. Today, the pre-operational and operational programming studies need to be conducted. Given this, the Conseil Général de la Guadeloupe has launched a consultation process for the architectural, technical and financial programming of the Edgar Clerc museum.
Definition of a leading cultural and tourism project for the Néron sugar refinery heritage site
Located at the heart of a vast natural area, the Néron site is a former sugar refinery and distillery that today shows the vestiges of its industrial past.
The Conseil Général de la Guadeloupe mandated our teams to conduct an overall assignment to enhance the site, in keeping with the development of a new form of “authentic” and “ecological” tourism.
Technical and Financial advisory services for selecting the operating structure and for granting a concession for the management of the Lyon Congress Center
Since the 1st January 2007, the Grand Lyon urban community has delegated the operation of the city’s congress centre (Cité Centre de Congrès de Lyon) to GL Events, under a lease agreement. This agreement will expire at the beginning of 2017. Consequently, Grand Lyon wished to compile a report on the results of the current concession. In accordance with the strategy to attract more international congresses, the urban community decided to examine different types of operating structures that could be implemented in the future public service concession.
Strategic, Financial and legal advisory for the operation of Annecy future conference center and exhibition park
The agglomeration of Annecy wishes to increase local MICE venue supply by opening a new conference centre and exhibitions park (CESC). The project will complement and add to the destination’s existing structures through the creation of strong synergies. The project will come into its own by fulfilling the city’s ambitions and generating direct economic benefits.
Programming for a monument in Saint-Benoit sur Loire
Today, the lapidarium of the Abbaye de Fleury, a renowned monument dating from the end of the XI century to the beginning of the XII century, is conserved at the abbey and closed to the public.
Project management objectives:
- Study the opportunity and feasibility of a museum-type space around the collection by promoting the history of the abbey and the local area.
- Consider whether a second lapidarium should be integrated, with stones from the Germigny des Prés oratory, as well as a collection of archives relating to Max Jacob.