Philippe Bihouix

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.

Published recently

• Bihouix P., Perriot, V., Ressources, un défi pour l’humanité (Resources, a Challenge for Humanity), Casterman, 2024
• Bihouix P., Jeantet S., De Selva C., La ville stationnaire. Comment mettre fin à l’étalement urbain (The stationary city. How can we end urban sprawl?), Actes Sud, 2022
• Bihouix P., “Rénover avec (techno-)discernement” (Renovate with technological discernment), Annales des Mines – Réalités industrielles Mai 2022 (2): 2730.  https://doi.org/10.3917/rindu1.222.0027.
• Bihouix P., Le Bonheur était pour demain. Les rêveries d’un ingénieur solitaire (Happiness was yet to come. Reveries of a solitary engineer), Seuil, 2019
• Bihouix P., L’Âge des low tech. Vers une civilisation techniquement soutenable (The low-tech age. Towards a technologically sustainable civilization), Seuil, 2014