Biographical Note
Our new member of the Temple of Fame for 2025 was appointed officer of the National Order of Quebec in 2023. Architect, emeritus urban planner and project manager, he is considered one of the artisans of today’s Montreal, and he has also earned several awards to recognize his contributions in the fields of urban planning, architecture, design, heritage protection and project management.
He had a career for about fifteen years at the City of Montreal, two of which were devoted to the Directorate of the department responsible for urban planning and urban development.
He also worked for a dozen years in several major real estate companies, including the Société immobilière du patrimoine architectural de Montréal (SIMPA), which was involved in the realisation of many landmark projects for the development of Old Montreal. He was Managing Director of the company Quartier international de Montréal (QIM), whose project of the same name 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 solving cultural, social or real estate issues. He is governor of PMI-Montreal, Friends of the Mountain and La Fonderie Darling, a visual arts centre. Anxious to train the next generation, he was a part-time full-time professor, coordinator of the graduate programs in development project assembly and management (MGPA) at the Faculty of Planning of the University of Montreal. Mr. Demers has given dozens of lectures around the world on topics related to urban planning, architecture, design, heritage and project management.
Visionary, creative, adept of transdisciplinary practises in design and sustainable urban projects, he competed to rebuild Montreal.