Rehabilitated Bordeaux facade – IDNéa
    IDNéa

    The promise of a new idea.

    From feasibility to signed construction contracts.

    IDNéa supports property companies, investors, asset managers and owners of medical centres. A full engagement connects intended uses, technical and regulatory feasibility, budget and the owner's decision.

    Service area: the Greater South-West, within three hours of Bordeaux, and Paris.

    Clarify

    Understand the asset, intended uses, and technical and regulatory constraints.

    Compare

    Assess scenarios, programme and CAPEX estimates to inform the decision.

    Contract

    Coordinate design, tendering and signature of construction contracts.

    The value is already there.
    It just needs to be revealed.

    Every building is a coherent assembly of structures, materials, systems, uses and history. Our approach consists in analysing each component, understanding interactions, identifying hidden resources, and transforming without erasing.

    Respect for existing structures
    Holistic building reading
    Construction intelligence
    Long-term vision
    Stone texture – IDNéa

    A full engagement to decide and procure the works.

    Interior rehabilitation – IDNéa

    Feasibility

    Intended uses, asset condition, technical and regulatory constraints.

    Scenarios and CAPEX

    Compare programmes, options and budgets to support the decision.

    Design and tender

    Coordinate studies, prepare the tender package and assess bids.

    Construction contracts

    Support negotiation through to contract signature.

    Clients & mandates

    Recent missions.

    SOGELYM Dixence

    Office asset repositioning & structuring

    Strategic advisory on office and mixed-use assets, combining existing-building technical analysis, transformation scenarios and investment decision support.

    IDNéa's role

    – Strategic assessment of existing structures

    – Regulatory and structural constraint analysis

    – Repositioning scenario development

    – CAPEX arbitrage and intervention prioritisation

    – Design mission structuring

    ARGAM – Alexandre Jaunatre

    Bordeaux stone-house rehabilitation

    Design advisory and contract structuring for a complex rehabilitation involving structural constraints, space redistribution and budget optimisation.

    IDNéa's role

    – In-depth reading of existing fabric

    – Technical and financial recalibration

    – Structural intervention arbitrage

    – Tender document preparation & contractor consultation

    – Negotiation and contract security

    I-CA.RE

    Healthcare & wellness asset development

    Strategic and operational structuring of a portfolio of medical and wellness ground-floor assets, integrating existing-building diagnostics, CAPEX optimisation and transformation management.

    IDNéa's role

    – In-depth technical reading of existing works

    – Arbitrage between transformation and rebuild

    – Operational structuring and contracting

    – Design management and economic optimisation

    – Investment decision security

    Creating lasting value.

    Economic

    Economic

    CAPEX optimisation, elimination of unnecessary works, intelligent arbitrage between conservation and intervention.

    Environmental

    Environmental

    Reuse of structures, conservation of construction resources, reduced carbon footprint.

    Heritage

    Heritage

    Rebuilding the city upon the city. Preserving the identity of places while adapting them to contemporary uses.

    Who we work with.

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    Property companies, investors and asset managers

    Compare possible uses, constraints and CAPEX before an acquisition or transformation.

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    Owners of medical centres

    Adapt a site to practitioners' and patients' needs, check feasibility and frame the works to procure.

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    Urban landscape – IDNéa

    Owner's read

    Project management from a former client's chair.

    IDNéa is led by Nicolas Idelot, who managed, invested in and delivered complex real-estate operations before founding the practice. Being a former principal, investor and client changes how a file is read.

    In practice this means pragmatic trade-offs — conservation versus transformation, phasing, CAPEX prioritisation — genuinely held interfaces between designers, contractors, operators and users, and sustained attention to risk and preparation of construction contracts.

    An asset to optimise? A project to structure?

    IDNéa intervenes where value depends on an intelligent understanding of the existing.

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