Business View Caribbean | October 2020

70 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN OCTOBER 2020 in order to continue their operations, safely,” Venegas recounts. “We immediately jumped to the challenge. A lot of this work was done during the aftershocks, which required specific safety protocols to protect our employees from inherent risks, while urgently repairing the affected buildings and structures. We were successful in completing several of those projects, and we still continue with a few others that need more elaborate retrofits to prepare the buildings for greater seismic events in the future.” Venegas notes that the company’s construction work in Puerto Rico continued as usual despite all the disasters and emergencies to which it pivoted to respond. “What we did put on hold was the geographic expansion of our operations into Florida and New York,” he notes. “And what we’ve been focusing on, instead, is the development of our expertise as a disaster response provider. We have developed, and would like to continue growing, a new