INTERVIEW: SITEMASTERS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
BUILDING
A GREEN BARBADOS Sustainable Business Magazine speaks to Ryan Wood, General Manager at SiteMasters Property Management, about their relationship-focus, moving towards net zero, and what’s on the horizon for construction. By Elizabeth Cope SiteMasters Construction and Property Management was founded more than 22 years ago in Bridgetown, Barbados. Since then, SiteMasters team has developed a reputation within commercial and residential contracting across the board, specializing in general renovations, additions, and new builds, including the architectural design of hotels, offices and even pools and spas. The SiteMasters masonry and carpentry team focus on choosing materials that are sustainable and durable while also being decorative. Like many of its Caribbean neighbors, Barbados boasts an economy with a substantial dependence on tourism revenues, and the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic last year therefore hit the island hard. For SiteMasters, it was a change that precipitated a dramatic shift in business. “The pandemic changed the whole dynamic significantly: how you operate business, how you engage with clients, how you organize workmen on job sites, and more,” says Ryan Wood, General Manager at SiteMas56 | SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MAGAZINE
ters. “We’re now on the tail end of things, but the construction of hotels, the renovations, and the maintenance that goes on across the island has all been affected. We now find ourselves managing properties for clients who cannot travel due to the health and safety protocols.” RELATIONSHIP FOCUS SiteMasters’ business approach places a strong emphasis on the integrity of its professional relationships. “Operating on a small island, you can do 10 fantastic jobs, but do one bad job and you’re the worst
