Agency
For 30 years, we have been active in France and around the world
For nearly 30 years, AREP Group has drawn on its experience as a major player in mobility to contribute to climate change mitigation and help territories adapt to its impacts, playing its part in addressing the climate challenge in France, across Europe and around the world.
Across all our locations, we share the same ambition with all our employees: to create a resilient and desirable world.
For every project we undertake, from the smallest to the very largest scale, from railway infrastructure to territorial strategies, we are committed, always with humility, to providing a response that is proportionate to actual needs. We assess our impact through the lens of our EMC2B approach: energy, materials, climate, carbon and biodiversity.
The dialogue we have fostered over the years has enabled us to create a laboratory of ideas, enriched by our shared perspectives and the diversity of our cultural backgrounds. Together, we explore environmental challenges as well as the tools and methods available to address them, including artificial intelligence.
Thanks to these invaluable exchanges, AREP has developed cutting-edge expertise in designing and envisioning a post-carbon future.
Faced with the climate emergency, we are able to put our commitments into practice in every country where we operate, from Marseille to Hanoi, Paris, Lausanne and Beijing, as part of a collective, international effort.
Key milestones
2024 Renovation of Paris Gare du Nord (construction of the cycle hub), Lyon Part-Dieu station, Paris Austerlitz station (Eiffel Award), and Paris Gare de Lyon (Petite Halle passenger concourse)
2023 Renovation of Saint-Michel Notre-Dame station, design of the interiors and furnishings for the new TGV INOUI trains, and completion of the Grand Annecy – Prospective 2050 study
2022 Completion of the Luxembourg in Transition scenario study
2021 Launch of our Inventons ! manifesto, renovation projects in Paris (Montparnasse station and the Galerie des Fresques at Gare de Lyon), and publication of the first issue of POST, our magazine exploring the post-carbon world
2020 New strategy, new team, new organisation
2019 Philippe Bihouix becomes CEO of AREP, completion of two landmark stations: Nîmes-Pont-du-Gard and Rennes
2018 Raphaël Ménard becomes Chairman of AREP’s Executive Board
2017 Renovation of Bordeaux Saint-Jean station
2014 Programming expertise joins AREP Group (Menighetti)
2011 Design of the Rhine-Rhône TGV stations
2010 Project management expertise joins AREP Group (Parvis)
2009 AREP Group establishes a presence in Vietnam
2007 Design of the TGV Est stations
2001 Design of the TGV Méditerranée stations
1999 AREP Group brings its expertise to China
1997 AREP Group is founded by Jean-Marie Duthilleul and Étienne Tricaud