Sébastien Frenette is a professional engineer and a graduate of École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS). He holds a master’s degree in construction engineering from the GRIDD laboratory, where he developed leading-edge expertise in Building Information Modeling (BIM) processes and the associated organizational changes. He has approximately 12 years of experience in architecture, including more than four years with the firm.
Sébastien is BIM Director at Provencher_Roy. He leads the development and integration of the firm’s BIM processes and supports construction projects in their digital transformation.
Involved across a wide range of projects, Sébastien contributed as BIM Manager to the construction of the new 400-bed Vaudreuil-Soulanges Hospital, where he was responsible for implementing a data management platform and producing multidisciplinary technical data sheets. As part of this project, he also authored a white paper on data centralization.
He also contributed to the expansion and redevelopment of the emergency department at the Montreal Heart Institute, a project designed to provide the Institute with the infrastructure it needs to maintain its position as a leader in cardiology.
Deeply committed to his field, Sébastien has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of Groupe BIM du Québec since 2017. The organization is a community of practice that supports several government-led BIM initiatives aimed at structuring Québec’s digital transformation. He also dedicates his time to speaking at and facilitating conferences, including the buildingSMART International Summit.


