customers,” Jason adds. “They trust us. We do everything we can to earn that trust – and once we’ve built it, we do everything we can to maintain it. We believe that it’s the relationships we build with customers that powers our growth.” Moving forward, Prestige Steel’s goal is to continue building and maintaining trusts with all their customers. They also want to continue growing – but cautiously, and maybe not at the rate they have been over the past year. “When it first started, we really thought COVID was going to slow business down,” Jason says, “but instead it ended up increasing it drastically. We sold a lot of buildings last year. On average, we sold between oneand-a-half and two buildings per week.” The majority of those sales were for commercial buildings, but in the future the company hopes to do more residential homes – and not just in Canada. Jason also sees a lot of potential for steel houses in the Bahamas, because they can be engineered to withstand the winds of a hurricane. “When you see a hurricane go through the Bahamas, you see a lot of roofs get ripped off,” Jason explains. “The walls stay standing but the roofs are gone. But when you do a steel building, you have steel rafters and an engineered steel roofing system. It can withstand hurricane force winds. We see a lot of opportunity in that.” Domestically, Jason concludes, the goal is to also build more houses. “The house I’m sitting in now is our new office,” he says. “We’ve designed it as a show building. We wanted to show off what steel houses are capable of, how beautiful they can be.” PRESTIGE STEEL
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