Business View Caribbean | April 2021

86 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN APRIL 2021 AT A GLANCE DOC’S GROUP OF COMPANIES WHAT: An engineering, manufacturing, and building group WHERE: Point Lisas, Trinidad WEBSITE: www.docseng.net DOC’s Group of Companies D OC’s Group of Companies has a vision to bring affordable, safe housing to Trinidad and Tobago and the rest of CARICOM. And they are determined to make it happen. “I would say about 80 to 85 percent of the population of this country cannot afford a house on the open market, and that is so in a lot of places,” says Shymdeo Gosine, Managing Director of DOC’s Group of Companies. “I have been preaching that we need to build houses at a price that people can afford, and what is affordable to the lower- middle- and middle-income people.” So Gosine took it upon himself to do it; purchasing a Waffle Crete system from a company in the U.S., which allows them to build precast 5,000 psi concrete structures that can withstand 8.3 magnitude earth quakes, category 3 hurricanes, and is 99 percent fireproof. He reports, “We build a house that the person is comfortable with, that has all the structural engineering integrity. A house that will not be blown away by a hurricane or have some earthquake come and knock it apart. You’re building something that will last.” Now, DOC’s Group of Companies, which is headquartered in Point Lisas, Trinidad, is trying to co-ordinate their efforts with local government agencies and regulatory bodies so they can build homes that are more affordable for the general public. “What we are planning to do is construct this building and do minimal finishes,” Gosine explains. “This person can live comfortably and as their lives go along, and they earn more, they will slowly put in the . . . W H E R E H O U S E S L I V E