Pierric Martin appointed general manager of Hors Site Conseil to establish standards for the off-site expert profession

At a time when the government and several major public contractors are taking over off-site activities to meet the needs of new housing and the acceleration of energy renovations, Hors Site Conseil, a French consultancy and assistance firm project management specializing in off-site constructive processes, formalizes the appointment of Pierric Martin, ENISE engineer, as General Director.

He joins Pascal Chazal and Julie-Anne Millet – co-founders of the Hors Site Group, parent company of Hors Site Conseil.

This appointment marks a new stage in the strategic evolution of the firm which wishes to contribute to the development of new professions such as expert in modern construction methods or off-site expert, and to consolidate its reference position in the sector. After several years of bringing off-site into existence in France and supporting pilot operations in the region, the firm has structured its role in the construction and renovation value chain.

Hors Site Conseil's ambition is now to establish its leadership as a specialist in multi-material construction and renovation (concrete, wood, steel, etc.) but also multi-systems (1D frames, 2D panels, 3D modular , non-structural components) – according to the classification of the off-site construction standard. The firm thus wishes to support order players towards a DFMA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly) and industrial purchasing logic to meet the social, environmental and financial challenges facing the construction sector. And at the same time, establish the standards for the profession of off-site expert.

Off-site expert, a new profession in the operational implementation of off-site construction

With more than 7 years of experience and with more than a hundred references to its credit, the firm intends to consolidate its activity. Its primary mission is to facilitate the meeting of supply and demand by supporting, upstream of projects, project owners to develop their operations taking into account the principles of off-site construction and renovation. .

The off-site expert works alongside the project owner as a technical assistant. Without replacing project management, its role consists of supporting the project owner in the specifications that he issues and helping him to position himself with regard to all the constructive solutions to be favored. Based on the project owner's ability to innovate and invest, the role of the off-site expert is therefore to find the right constructive methods, to highlight the processes that seem most relevant to him and to source companies of the territory capable of responding to these markets. Once these constructive choices have been established, he plays a supporting role with the design teams in order to guarantee the compatibility of the design with the manufacturers' processes.

Towards a massification of demand

From now on, Hors Site Conseil is focusing, in France, on supporting project management stakeholders to maximize the gains brought by the off-site tool and thus consolidate demand, key to structuring an industrial sector. virtuous.

Hors Site Conseil, currently engaged in around twenty operations and 5 strategic support, emphasizes the fact that off-site is a tool for the transformation of buildings. Indeed, after a phase of democratization of off-site processes, the firm is now focused on optimizing the gains brought about by these processes.

Taking into account the objectives of the National Low-Carbon Strategy (SNBC), aiming to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050, are not left out. As such, the firm has recently taken part in the Giga Regio Factory project, the objective of which is the adoption of industrialized Net Zero-Energy solutions on the market, and actively supports various players, such as the ARO HLM as part of large-scale off-site renovation plans.

For Pierric Martin: « We want to support all project owners who, sharing our philosophy, wish to adopt off-site in their development projects. The crisis we are experiencing is an opportunity to reinvent ourselves: doing nothing and trying to maintain yesterday's methods proves risky. Turning to the DFMA today is the key to operational success of tomorrow's building, whether new, renovated or in second life. These are rules of collaborative design allowing the entire value chain to be involved and one of the principles that has enabled the transformation of other sectors. Obviously, it will be necessary to inform and train all the actors for whom the DFMA or the collaborative working methods are not necessarily fully acquired. At the same time, off-site is a tool that must be used wisely and which increasingly involves all stakeholders in the building value chain. »