Sanchis Architectes Tour

What Sanchis Architectes Tour does

Sanchis Architectes Tour (legally SARL Tourre Sanchis Architectes, trading as TOURRE SANCHIS ARCHITECTES) is a privately held French architecture firm headquartered in Montpellier at Château Levat, founded in 2009 by Pierre Tourre and Serge Sanchis, who had collaborated since 1994. The firm operates with approximately twenty collaborators across four service verticals — Urbanisme (urban planning and eco-district development), Habitat (residential housing, social housing, senior residences), Santé (healthcare facilities including hospitals, psychiatric units, and cancer institutes), and Enseignement (schools, high schools, training centres, and university facilities). Its core technology stack is BIM on Autodesk Revit, augmented by formal HQE (Haute Qualité Environnementale) methodology applied since 2000 and certified via long-form training at E.N.S.A. Paris La Villette in 2002–2003; full architectural missions are delivered including synthesis coordination (SYNTH), fire-safety systems (SSI), and works coordination (OPC).

The firm generates revenue exclusively through professional services fees tied to architectural commissions, typically calculated as a percentage of construction cost (honoraires d'architecte) on a project-by-project basis. Go-to-market is concentrated on French public procurement competitions (concours / marchés publics) for regional councils, municipal governments, and public healthcare institutions across the Occitanie region, supplemented by direct commissions from private developers (e.g., Nexity, HELENIS/OPALIA) for residential and mixed-use projects within ZAC (urban development zones). Notable mandates include the Écoquartier Rive Gauche (1,250 units, ÉCOQUARTIER Niveau 3 certified), Centre Hospitalier d'Alès en Cévennes (€64.8M HT, 250-bed MCO hospital in association with RTV/TRIBU), Hôpital Nord Marseille restructuring (€64M HT), Purple Campus Carcassonne (€8.6M HT), and CHU de Nîmes Pôle Psychiatrique (€13.6M HT, in association with AIA / Atelier de la Rize). The firm is privately held with no external capital, no subsidiaries, and no parent entity.

Name

Sanchis Architectes Tour

Legal name

Tourre Sanchis Architectes

Website

https://tourresanchis.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sanchis Architectes Tour is an architecture firm that offers urban planning and design services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Architectural Services (541310), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Community Engagement & Participatory Planning (BPAHAKAO)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Urban planning
• Sustainable architecture
• Healthcare facility design
• Educational facility design

Headquarters

HQ city

Montpellier

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Architectural Design Services: The firm generates revenue through professional services fees for architecture and urban planning design commissions, working on public procurement (marchés publics) and private contracts. Revenue is project-based, one-time, and calculated as a percentage of construction costs (honoraires d'architecte).

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Tourre Sanchis Architectes is an architecture and urban planning firm that designs sustainable buildings and urban developments across four main verticals — Urbanisme (urban planning/eco-districts), Habitat (residential/social/senior housing), Santé (hospitals and medical institutes), and Enseignement (schools and training centers). The firm delivers full architectural missions (BIM coordination, HQE sustainability management, synthesis, fire safety, works coordination) for public-sector clients via competitive procurement and for private developers via direct commissions, primarily across the Occitanie region of France.

Product overview

Sanchis Architectes Tour (TOURRE SANCHIS ARCHITECTES) is a Montpellier-based architecture firm specializing in sustainable architecture and urban planning with a focus on Haute Qualité Environnementale (HQE). The firm's service portfolio is organized into four main categories: Urbanisme (urban planning and eco-district development), Habitat (residential housing including social housing, student residences, and senior living), Santé (healthcare facilities including hospitals and medical institutes), and Enseignement (educational facilities including schools and training centers). Projects range from individual buildings to large-scale urban developments. The company employs approximately 20 collaborators and has delivered projects across the Occitanie region including major healthcare facilities, educational institutions, and sustainable housing developments. Notable projects include the Écoquartier Rive Gauche (1250 housing units, Eco-Quartier Level 3 certified), Centre Hospitalier d'Alès (64.8M EUR, HQE-certified MCO hospital), and various school and training center projects throughout the region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Urbanisme (Urban Planning) Sustainable urban planning and development services including eco-district development (ZAC), public spaces design, urban regeneration, and integration of environmental considerations into city design.
• Habitat (Housing) Residential housing design services including social housing, student residences, senior living facilities, and mixed-use developments designed with HQE sustainability principles.
• Santé (Healthcare) Healthcare facility architecture services including hospitals, medical institutes, psychiatric facilities, cancer institutes, and outpatient centers designed with HQE environmental quality principles.
• Enseignement (Education) Educational facility design services including schools, high schools, training centers, university buildings, boarding schools, and dormitories designed with HQE certification standards.
• Écoquartier Rive Gauche Eco-neighborhood development in Montpellier with 1,250 housing units, public spaces, promenade, pier, and outdoor amphitheater. Eco-Quartier Level 3 certified. Project value €8.5M HT.
• Centre Hospitalier d'Alès en Cévennes New 250-bed MCO hospital in Alès en Cévennes designed according to HQE references in partnership with RTV/TRIBU as HQE referent. Project value €64.8M HT.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1250-unit ecoquartier labeled ÉCOQUARTIER Niveau 3 at ZAC Rive Gauche, Montpellier
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• François Fontès ArchitectecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 July 2021Tourre Sanchis Architectes in association with François Fontès Architecte was selected as the winning team for the future Montpellier Business School campus project within ZAC Cambacérès, which will house C.C.I. Hérault et Occitanie, Purple Campus, and Montpellier Business School.
• AIA, Atelier de la RizecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTourre Sanchis Architectes worked in association with AIA, Atelier de la Rize on the CHU de Nîmes Psychiatric Pole project (13.6 M€ HT, 130 beds), contributing architectural expertise alongside specialized psychiatric facility design partners.
• RTV (with TRIBU as HQE referent)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTourre Sanchis Architectes in association with RTV, with TRIBU as HQE referent, designed the new Centre Hospitalier d'Alès en Cévennes (64.8 M€ HT, 250-bed MCO hospital), applying HQE methodology to hospital design.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• AIA Life Designers: French architecture and engineering firm with a strong healthcare and public infrastructure focus; partnered with Tourre Sanchis Architectes on the CHU de Nîmes Pôle Psychiatrique project and serves similar public institutional clients with comparable HQE/BIM workflows.
• Valode & Pistre: Renowned French architecture practice with deep HQE/sustainable design credentials, active in healthcare, offices, and urban districts; comparable in applying environmental quality frameworks across multiple typologies in public procurement.
• Tetrarc: French architecture firm working on housing, education, and public spaces with attention to environmental quality; directly comparable in scale and concours-driven project mix in the regional French market.
• François Fontès Architecte: Montpellier-based architecture firm that partnered with Tourre Sanchis on the Montpellier Business School campus project; competes in the same Occitanie concours market for educational and public commissions.
• Atelier Roland Schweitzer: Paris-based architecture and urban planning firm with strong sustainable development and ecoquartier credentials; highly comparable in HQE-based urban and architectural design approach.
• Berranger & Vincent: French architecture studio with a comparable profile across public commissions, urban planning, and sustainable design; competing peer in concours for public infrastructure projects.
• Atelier 2/3/4: French architecture firm active in housing, education, and public projects with a sustainability focus; comparable size and concours-driven project pipeline, particularly in regional French markets.

Broad incumbents

• Architecture-Studio: Major French architecture firm with national and international reach, active in cultural, educational, and urban projects; competes for the same concours-driven public commissions while operating at a much larger scale.
• Wilmotte & Associés: Large French architecture firm with diversified typology portfolio (cultural, education, housing, urban); competes for high-profile public commissions but at significantly larger scale and national/international footprint.

Emerging players

• King Kong Architects: Bordeaux-based architecture practice with strong residential, urban, and public-space work; emerging peer in the same regional concours ecosystem with comparable sustainability narrative.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tourre-sanchis-architectes

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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