Business View Caribbean | February 2020

26 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN FEBRUARY 2020 AT A GLANCE ENCOMPASS LIMITED WHAT: A design/build, construction, renovation, and development firm WHERE: Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands WEBSITE: www.encompasscayman.com MITED E ric Kline, Senior Project Manager at Encompass Limited, an eight-year-old design/build firm on Grand Cayman Island, admits that starting a construction business in 2012 might not have been the best decision in terms of timing. “We were still in the middle of an economic crisis,” he recounts. “There were construction companies leaving the island, and we were trying to start a company.” Luckily, Kline, who was a certified general contractor and project manager in Florida before relocating to Grand Cayman, says that his company’s entry into the local condo renovation market was facilitated by a good relationship with the Ritz- Carlton, the island’s Five-Star resort, where both he and his wife, Tracey, had worked since 2007 – he as a Senior Project Manager for several properties, and she, as Director of the Resale and Rental Division at The Residences, the resort’s vacation rental division on Seven Mile Beach. “Through that relationship, we began performing lots of renovations on their multi-million dollar residential units,” says Kline. “The owners knew about our work ethic and abilities and as a result, we received numerous contracts to remodel their various vacation residences.” Since then, Encompass Limited has carved out a niche Relationships are key