Business View Magazine | January 2021

88 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2021 cruise industry. Classed as an essential service, VESTA saw a bigger increase in revenue this year just through providing temporary bed space for hospitals, colleges, and offices across the U.S. Hall explains, “We do a lot of government work as well, so our guys were called to duty and had to travel and work on the job during this time, while continuing to maintain the CDC requirements and health and safety protocols. It introduced a whole new level of execution to what we do on the site. Our team really stepped up and put themselves on the line; going out to start and finish these projects and help the people that needed the space the most.” The company offers great support to the team and ensures they have what they need to get the job done. As Hall attests, “We take pride in the great team we’ve built over the last six years; we continue to grow stronger together, even more so during this pandemic, as everyone’s been stepping up to do more than they were We get them coded for multiple states so they aren’t restricted to one particular location.” Last year, VESTA built a unique and challenging project on a manmade island in the middle of the Bahamas called Ocean Cay – it was workforce housing for a cruise lines’ private island. The project consisted of three, three-story apartments and a two-story townhome. The 80 modules were built in two different factories located in northern Florida and Southern Georgia and then shipped by boat from a port in Fort Lauderdale to the island. The VESTA team received the modules on the island to assemble them like Legos and finish the buildings out on site. As a result of the success of that project, VESTA began working with another cruise line, doing a similar build – providing workforce housing on a private island in the Bahamas. The Ocean Cay job was finished around the end of 2019, and the VESTA crew was ramping up in February for the next project but that was put on hold due to the impact of the pandemic on the