Project manager & renovation in Quintal.

Perched between 600 and 900 metres above sea level, Quintal is terraced at the foot of the Semnoz, about ten kilometres south of Annecy. The village has kept its mountain character: a village centre clustered around the church, hamlets scattered across the meadows, the massif's forest as a backdrop and, on clear days, a panorama stretching all the way to the Bauges. This setting — the nature of the Semnoz on one side, the Annecy employment area a quarter of an hour away on the other — attracts families looking for a residential mountain setting without giving up proximity to the town.

The buildings tell this story in two stages. On one side, the old Savoyard farmhouses of the village centre and hamlets, with their tall barns, thick walls and generous roof structures, which offer remarkable conversion potential. On the other, the chalets and detached houses built from the 70s to the 2000s as housing estates grew: sound houses but energy-hungry, with dated layouts, which their owners now want to extend, reconfigure and insulate. Between the two, a constant demand for new builds, renovation and extensions — because available land is becoming scarce and transforming existing buildings is often the best option.

Each of these projects calls for method: survey of the existing building, design, planning application compliant with Grand Annecy regulations, consulting the trades, supervision of the works. This is the job of the project manager: taking the project from start to finish, keeping to budget and schedule, and sparing you from coordinating a dozen or so firms. Our Aix-les-Bains office is less than thirty minutes from Quintal via the A41: we work regularly in the village and its immediate neighbours — Seynod, Vieugy, Montagny-les-Lanches, Alby-sur-Chéran.

House and chalet renovation accounts for most requests in Quintal. On a 1980s detached house, the typical programme combines opening up the living spaces, replacing windows and doors, improved insulation and a new heating system — often switching from an old oil boiler to a heat pump. On a chalet, you have to work with the timber frame, get the airtightness right without stifling the walls and preserve the warm character of the spaces. In both cases, we design the project, price each item and manage the trades through to handover.

Old farmhouse conversion is the village's signature project. Turning a barn into a cathedral-ceilinged living space, making openings in the facades without spoiling the volumes, reinforcing a century-old roof structure, insulating stone walls while managing water vapour movement: these projects require a thorough structural survey and a genuine understanding of old buildings. They also involve specific permissions — change of use, compliance with architectural requirements — which we prepare and defend before the planning department.

Finally, extensions and adding a storey address the shortage of land: a structured conservatory, a timber frame extension on the slope, a raised roof to create a floor in the eaves. In Quintal, siting on sloping ground and the area's appearance rules call for careful design from the sketch stage. And because most of these projects include a thermal component, our status as an RGE-certified firm means energy renovation grants can be attached to them rather than missed.

What sets Atelier NovAlp apart is bringing three professions together in one team: the architect who designs, the project manager who organises and checks, the general contractor who builds. For you, this changes everything: no more putting together a designer, an engineering firm and tradespeople yourself, only to see them pass the buck at the first unforeseen problem. A single, turnkey point of contact puts its name to the project from the first sketch to handing over the keys — and the grey areas between parties, the main sources of delays and cost overruns, disappear.

The arrangement adapts to your project: a full architect's commission for an ambitious conversion or an extension above the thresholds, traditional project management if you want to keep control of your contracts, or general contracting with contractual price and timescales for a locked-in budget. On the regulatory side, Quintal comes under the Grand Annecy PLUiHD: before drawing a single line, we examine the zoning regulations in detail — footprint, siting on the slope, roof pitches, colours and materials, protection of agricultural land — to submit an application that is accepted first time.

Our RGE CertiRénov certification no. CR-2026-73-0095 (whole-house renovation offer, issued by Qualitel Certification) is the condition for access to public grants: MaPrimeRénov', energy savings certificates (CEE) and local schemes. We factor these subsidies in from the pricing stage to show you the real amount left to pay, not a theoretical quote. Browse our services or visit our neighbouring pages: Annecy and Aix-les-Bains.