4. Future prospects and development

Today's technical inspection market operates in three main directions:

• the mandatory inspection market (structural soundness and personal safety for construction operations as defined in article R. 111-38 of the French Construction and Housing Code);

• the incentive inspection market, in which project owners use technical inspection bodies because it is in their financial interest to do so in terms of insurance (bonus premiums, for example);

• the direct inspection market, in which construction contractors request services from a technical inspection body without being obliged or encouraged to do so.

In the face of technological developments in the construction sector, the entire profession today rejects the image of a technical inspector reduced...