Clement Demers
Recipient of the National Order of Quebec in 2023.
See below for a link to the video of the award ceremony and the biography of the winner.
https://www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca/membres/membre.asp?id=2137
See below for a link to the video of the award ceremony and the biography of the winner.
https://www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca/membres/membre.asp?id=2137
Biographical Note
Clément Demers is an architect, emeritus urban planner and project manager. He spent about fifteen years at the City of Montreal, two of which were devoted to the direction of the service responsible for urban planning and urban development. He also worked for a dozen years in various important real estate companies, including the Société immobilière du patrimoine architectural de Montréal (SIMPA), which was involved in the realisation of many significant projects for the development of Old Montreal. He is now Director General of the Société Quartier international de Montréal (QIM), whose project of the same name has earned 31 national and international distinctions, including the Project of the Year Award 2005 awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI). For more than 30 years, he has also been involved in the community through his many commitments on boards of directors or organisations dedicated to cultural, social or real estate issues. Governor of the PMI-Montreal chapter and part-time full professor, coordinator of graduate programs in development project management (MGPA) at the Faculty of Planning at the University of Montreal, he has received several awards to recognise his contributions in the fields of urban planning, architecture, design, heritage protection and project management.
Clément Demers is an architect, emeritus urban planner and project manager. He spent about fifteen years at the City of Montreal, two of which were devoted to the direction of the service responsible for urban planning and urban development. He also worked for a dozen years in various important real estate companies, including the Société immobilière du patrimoine architectural de Montréal (SIMPA), which was involved in the realisation of many significant projects for the development of Old Montreal. He is now Director General of the Société Quartier international de Montréal (QIM), whose project of the same name has earned 31 national and international distinctions, including the Project of the Year Award 2005 awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI). For more than 30 years, he has also been involved in the community through his many commitments on boards of directors or organisations dedicated to cultural, social or real estate issues. Governor of the PMI-Montreal chapter and part-time full professor, coordinator of graduate programs in development project management (MGPA) at the Faculty of Planning at the University of Montreal, he has received several awards to recognise his contributions in the fields of urban planning, architecture, design, heritage protection and project management.
Considered one of the artisans of Montreal today, Clément Demers is a project manager and a defender of heritage and design in all its forms. An architect and urban planner, he had a career at the City of Montreal for about fifteen years, two of which were in the direction of the service responsible for urban planning and urban development. He has also worked for twelve years in various real estate companies, including the Société immobilière du patrimoine architectural de Montréal, which has contributed to many projects to enhance Old Montreal. He led the implementation of the development of the Place-des-arts sector of the Quartier des spectacles de Montréal and was general manager of the Société Quartier international de Montréal, whose project of the same name has received several prestigious distinctions. Mr. Demers has given dozens of conferences around the world on topics related to urban planning. Visionary, creative, adept of transdisciplinary practices in design and sustainable urban projects, he has contributed to rebuilding Montreal while volunteering in many initiatives. For more than 30 years, Mr. Demers is engaged on boards of directors or organisations dedicated to solving cultural, social or real estate issues. In addition, anxious to train the next generation, he was a part-time full professor and coordinator of graduate programs in development project management at the Faculty of Planning at the University of Montreal.
Here are other resources to get to know him better:
Retirement testimonial:
https://kollectif.net/actualites/depart-a-retraite-professeur-clement-demers
Articles in La Presse https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/b193c7b8-2007-43f2-b862-0030d2c711e6%7C_0.html
https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/fc85ba32-4480-44df-8288-4209d21159a1%7C_0.html
2 minute interview on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f-B9bU0Hrk
4 minute interview https://observatoire-ivanhoe-cambridge.umontreal.ca/2014/09/19/montreal-ville-moderne-echanges-urbains-avec-clement-demers/
Quartier des spectacles https://www.quartierdesspectacles.com/fr/a-propos/les-productions-du-partenariat/oeuvre/116/clement-demers-architecte/
Retirement testimonial:
https://kollectif.net/actualites/depart-a-retraite-professeur-clement-demers
Articles in La Presse https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/b193c7b8-2007-43f2-b862-0030d2c711e6%7C_0.html
https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/fc85ba32-4480-44df-8288-4209d21159a1%7C_0.html
2 minute interview on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f-B9bU0Hrk
4 minute interview https://observatoire-ivanhoe-cambridge.umontreal.ca/2014/09/19/montreal-ville-moderne-echanges-urbains-avec-clement-demers/
Quartier des spectacles https://www.quartierdesspectacles.com/fr/a-propos/les-productions-du-partenariat/oeuvre/116/clement-demers-architecte/