Efficiency, sustainability and comfort, the change of model for the Administrative District
With the 2008 crisis, the Catalan administration, faced with a lack of liquidity, decided to sell real estate assets in the center of Barcelona, the headquarters of various departments. It was thus forced to relocate workers and offices in the relatively near future, depending on the expiration of the leases. The definitive solution is a new, more efficient building that brings together all the possible departments and also promotes and stimulates new areas of the city.
After the bidding processes, in 2016 the first stone was laid for what is now the Administrative District and work began on the second part: transforming the catalan administration in the way it works.
Efficiency and sustainability
To take into account the health of workers and their well-being also implies comfort, which is partly given by the conditions of the temperature, humidity and light, amongst others, of the different spaces. In projecting a new building, all these parameters had already been taken into account and automatic systems have been installed in order to provide the best possible response in the building. The industrial engineer Jordi Roca, technician of the Management of Common Services to the Department of Vice-Presidency, Economy and Hacienda, explains that ''the main'' characteristic of the buildings is that they have been thought in favour of sustainability and energy efficiency. Roca, who has monitored the project together with the architectural firm Batlle i Roig and the engineering firm PGI ENGINEERING, explains that they have also worked to achieve international certifications in these criteria, such as the LEED Platinum, in which they have achieved one of the highest scores in Spain, or the WELL, which values comfort.