Business View Magazine | May 2021

25 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MAY 2021 MASTER POOLS GUI LD (MPG) BVM: How has COVID-19 impacted your members from a business perspective? Colvert: “It’s interesting because with COVID, and the restrictions that so many people have been placed under, that has varied greatly across the country. Last March, we had a virtual roundtable with about 70 members on the call and they exchanged information on how they were being impacted at that time by the pandemic. Some of them had been closed down completely, some hadn’t been restricted at all. Construction almost everywhere was considered essential, so those companies were allowed to continue but they had to change their way of doing business in several ways. “In many cases, they would have one person in a truck instead of two, which meant sending more vehicles out to the jobsites. Sometimes, the clientele were very particular on how the workers reacted when they got there – were they required to wear masks, what health protocols did they have to follow? Because people were leery of anyone coming into their premises to work. But by the same token, everybody was restricted to their home in almost all the states, so they wanted a pool. So our industry adapted to the protocols that were necessary in each market, in order to continue the construction. “We have several members that are large commercial builders, however, most are residential. For the last year, a lot of commercial was not active. YMCAs were closed, most health Falcon Pools Ltd. - Surrey UK - www.falconpools.co.uk Watermania - Guatemala - www.watermania.com.gt