diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index d185b8358..e7c681a17 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ WriteVTK = "64499a7a-5c06-52f2-abe2-ccb03c286192"
 AbstractTrees = "0.3.3, 0.4"
 Aqua = "0.8"
 BSON = "0.2.5, 0.3"
-BlockArrays = "0.12.12, 0.13, 0.14, 0.15, 0.16"
+BlockArrays = "0.12.12, 0.13, 0.14, 0.15, 0.16, 1"
 Combinatorics = "1.0.0"
 DataStructures = "0.18.13"
 DocStringExtensions = "0.8.1, 0.9"
diff --git a/src/Algebra/Algebra.jl b/src/Algebra/Algebra.jl
index 72f2782ac..46a520f35 100644
--- a/src/Algebra/Algebra.jl
+++ b/src/Algebra/Algebra.jl
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ using Gridap.Helpers
 import Base: convert, size, getindex, show, count, *
 import LinearAlgebra: mul!
 import SparseArrays: nnz, nonzeros, nzrange, findnz, rowvals
+import BlockArrays: AbstractBlockedUnitRange
 
 export length_to_ptrs!
 export rewind_ptrs!
diff --git a/src/Algebra/AlgebraInterfaces.jl b/src/Algebra/AlgebraInterfaces.jl
index 7548cd9cb..44298b2f8 100644
--- a/src/Algebra/AlgebraInterfaces.jl
+++ b/src/Algebra/AlgebraInterfaces.jl
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ function allocate_vector(::Type{V},n::Integer) where V
   V(undef,n)
 end
 
-function allocate_vector(::Type{<:BlockVector{T,VV}},indices::BlockedUnitRange) where {T,VV}
+function allocate_vector(::Type{<:BlockVector{T,VV}},indices::AbstractBlockedUnitRange) where {T,VV}
   V = eltype(VV)
   mortar(map(ids -> allocate_vector(V,ids),blocks(indices)))
 end