Gregory Shaw, the 29-year-old General Manager of California Stucco believes that its arrival in Guyana, just under three years ago, has added a new and exciting dimension to the country’s design and building landscape at a time when the local construction sector is expanding at breakneck speed.
Shaw says that it is as much the growth in the housing sector and the desire of home-owners to make creative ‘statements’ through their new buildings as it is a breakthrough in high-rise edifices that has thrown open a potentially lucrative market for the company.
Stucco is one of myriad products of the unending search in the United States’ scientific and manufacturing sectors for niches in the multi-billion dollar and ever-growing construction sector. It is a fine plaster for interior and exterior walls, including mouldings—usually composed of
