The Agència de l’Habitatge de Catalunya (Housing Agency of Catalonia- AHC) created by the Law 13/2009, of 22nd July has the purpose of endowing the Catalan Government with an agile administrative tool to facilitate the management of all public actions in terms of housing. AHC has the aim to develop, implement and manage housing policies in Catalonia. The activity of the Agency is divided in three areas: Promotion of housing, Social Programs of Housing and Rehabilitation and Quality of Housing. It manages a social housing stock of 14.727 dwellings. It has developed, during the past years, more than 400 refurbishment projects.

Role: Demo-Building provider, stakeholders’ engagement, building facility manager

As facility manager of the Demo-building in Catalonia and public entity in charge of Generalitat of Catalonia social housing management. La AHC will assure that perspective of stakeholders of all value chain is included in the project. This will be raised, on one hand, by AHC’s technicians, end-users’ and value chain stakeholders’ involvement. On the other hand, thought to 4 workshops with internal and external stakeholders involve in building life cycle will be involved too to define needs, expectations and evaluate risks and opportunities of SIRCULAR solutions in Demo-site and in existing buildings in general. The same procedure will be implemented in the other SIRCULAR demo sites.