4. Conclusion

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. 125-17 of the CCH);

• the incentive inspection market, in which project owners use technical inspection bodies because they have a financial interest in doing 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.

Recent legislative and regulatory changes affecting the construction sector have led to increased intervention by technical inspectors in the maintenance and improvement of existing...