We haven't made a blog post since May 2020! It is certainly not due to lack of projects, quite honestly (and gratefully for us), it has been quite the latter. Another very busy year for RORO Greenhouses. As Covid-19 saw substantial changes to daily routines of people across the world, it also greatly changed businesses, both locally and worldwide.
Many sectors evolved, many struggled, and many new ones emerged. In horticulture, Covid-19 led to many nations becoming more conscious of their accessibility to food and their ability to provide it within their borders. Supply and demand shifted immensely.
While some sectors halted investments during these trying times, food is essential - The shift for food with less mileage skyrocketed, food produced within a nations' own borders had exponentially become on the agendas of many.
In 2020, we started the year in a Canadian quarantine. I had completed by the end of the year 8 weeks personally in quarantine, in various countries, adapting worldwide as we travelled. Adapting to new policies and procedures, developing new safety standards for ourselves and our workers, and naturally - that meant a lot less time from home.
When factoring in quarantine periods, jobs take longer, we see our families significantly less, and there is a lot more due diligence to be had as every region, province, state and nation has adapted diverse and different methods to protect their citizens, ones that foreign businesses must abide to and consistently adapt to. You must be self sufficient in knowing where to read, which information to trust, and be consistent with following news, governments (both regional, provincial, and national) and fostering ongoing open communication with your clients to ensure no delays, dangers and to keep deadlines in order.
When you work over 5 continents, and in numerous districts - it's a lot of key protocol to stay up to date with. However, we are happy to say that despite these new challenges of operating a global company, this year we were successful in adapting, evolving, and overcoming with all our partners - while also keeping our employees and job sites safe and Covid free.
In 2020 we completed 40 hectares of foundation work, [that is over 80 football/soccer fields!] and also 10,000 meter of specialized flooring. We're grateful to our partners and clients, our families, and for our team who stepped up at the onset of Covid-19 when the borders suddenly shut across the world. This team was critical in the mid of the wildest Canadian spring [which felt like winter] to deliver on time, and on budget another successful project, during the most unusual circumstances we'd ever faced.
As I am sitting in my Australian hotel quarantine, I am looking forward to 2021 and also looking back, happy - that RORO Greenhouses, a tiny family business has been able to play some small part in providing food and accessibility during Covid-19 across the world.
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