June 2018c

46 47 Proud partner of Phoenix Construction Group www.advancefireltd.com Red Gate Road, George Town PO Box 10301, Grand Cayman KY1-1003 info@advancefireltd.com (345) 949-8330 We are one of the largest Fire Protection and Plumbing contractors in the Cayman Islands offering services in all aspects of Plumbing, Fire Sprinklers, Fire Alarms and Fire Extinguishers. We also service Sewage Treatment Plants and offer 24 hour service on all of our services. THE ART OF EXCELLENCE IN CUSTOM CABINETRY                PHOENIX CONSTRUCTION number of local subcontractors to meet fast-paced project demands. A single hospital- ity project could have 150 people on the job at any given time. Ac- cording to Howe, “We’ve always had to be adaptable to following trend- ing markets and more importantly predicting market shifts in advance. One of the pleasures of working in smaller island nations is the variety of the project types we take on, from new builds to renovation projects in the various sectors. These opportuni- ties have included supermarkets, cold storage distribu- tion, office, hur- ricane shelters, schools, stadiums, car dealerships, water plants, gas stations, power distribution, renewable energy, hotels, condos and high-end residences just to name a few. The variety keeps things interesting. The type of work we’re doing right now might change in 2 or 3 years if one market goes soft and another area grows. For example: after 2008, when the com- mercial market got really quiet, the trend was turning to high-end residential.We were finally getting baby boomers retiring to the island; local professionals were moving from small, two-bed- room homes and buying waterfront or canal-front properties.We started doing more residential, delivering a lot of design build projects, and that arena was about 50 percent of our business.” At that time, Phoenix acquired a high-end residential contractor and brought them on board to aggressively take on that sector. Howe’s senior partners had retired several years prior and like-minded individual, Brent McComb, came on as support in a leadership role. The two are now Directors of the business. McComb leads the residential side, and Howe primarily leads the commercial side. The last two years, commercial and residential business has been SHAYNE HOWE Managing Director BRENT MCCOMB Director