On 29th March, 2012 Jose Angel Ferrer was appointed chairman of ASARAL (Association of Architectural practices in the Province of Almería), the only official association of architectural practices in Spain. ASARAL aims to establish synergies between its different members to achieve excellence in the architectural services offered by them by means of a high architectural quality and full customer orientation. ASARAL is part of the CEOE (Spanish Business Association) and CEA (Andalucian Business Association) through its membership of ASEMPAL.