Sustainable Building Awards 2025 Founded in 2024, Rebella CCR was born from a need to tackle one of the region’s most persistent issues: the rapid corrosion of steel reinforcement in salt-laden islands, increasing lifecycle costs and risk. The company has since emerged as a leader in the acceleration of the Caribbean’s transition to climate-resistant infrastructure by supplying and integrating Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) reinforcement systems, exclusively Durabar™ and Astec™ from Dextra Group, across CARICOM. Today, Rebella CCR’s offerings span product supply, design integration, prefabricated cage delivery, local capability building, and finance-ready project packaging. Sitting at the intersection of 15 economic sectors, it stands as a trusted partner to government agencies, national authorities, developers, engineering consultancies, airports, and climate-finance intermediaries requiring durable, low-carbon reinforcement for coastal, energy, aviation, ports, and residential infrastructure. “We do not simply supply materials,” stated Nicholas. “We design bankable, resilient solutions and enable public-private collaboration so projects can attract institutional capital. Our mission is to deliver a futuristic urban development model that communities can live in, and governments and the private sector can finance.” The global market has shifted rapidly from aspirational sustainability to performance-based, verifiable outcomes, in which embodied carbon, lifecycle costs, and resilience markers now determine access to green finance. In this space, Rebella CCR serves as a systems integrator, providing high-performance, Environmentally Product Declaration (EPD)-backed composite reinforcement with the engineering, procurement, and capacity building required to make longlife infrastructure bankable. From high-performance reinforcement systems to sustainable construction technologies, Rebella CCR’s structural solutions utilises GFRP reinforcement which is corrosion-free and deliver a 120year design life, reducing maintenance and replacement cycles by up to 25% in coastal and marine environments. Prefabricated GFRP cage systems not only cut site labour needs by as much as 70% but also enhance safety and quality consistency. By eliminating the recurring costs associated with corrosion and maintenance, GFRP delivers lifecycle savings of up to 20-25% over conventional steel, a crucial advantage in cost-sensitive island economies. What’s more, Rebella CCR is the first Caribbean distributor to attach Environmental Product Declarations EPD to GFRP shipments and to package lifecycle CAPEX and OPEX modelling with bids. Every shipment is ICC evaluated and independently tested, while projects are packaged with lifecycle assessments and performance warranties to ensure they meet institutional financing criteria and ESG procurement. Looking ahead to 2026, Rebella CCR aims to scale up from its role of distributor to regional integrator and on-island fabricator, with the establishment of a Caribbean Innovation and Fabrication Hub. This hub will build regional production capacity and embed advanced digital management tools. This will occur alongside the integration of an AI Management System for factory monitoring and supply transparency, providing real-time monitoring; performance benchmarking against ICC, ASTM, and ISO standards, and predictive analytics to prevent downtime. In addition to this, Rebella CCR’s access to Sea Sand Concrete (SSC) innovation is poised to transform regenerative coastal and marine construction, combining Astec™ and Durabar™ GFRP with sea sand, seawater, and recycled aggregates. This eliminates steel corrosion, the primary weakness of seawater concrete, and results in a low-carbon, circular construction method perfectly adapted to island environments and validated by global durability studies. Furthermore, its Astec™ Hybrid Modular Systems extend that same innovation to the housing, tourism, and aviation sectors, offering rapid-deploy, low-carbon structures that support both economic growth and disaster resilience. As the Caribbean advances a region-wide construction and climate-resilience pipeline exceeding US $25 billion, traditional methods risk slowing delivery and inflating lifecycle costs. Rebella CCR will continue to lead the way through the use of SSC to enable low-carbon coastal construction, modular systems to drive project delivery, and AI-powered digital management to enhance efficiency, ultimately delivering speed, resilience, and bankability. “With every project, Rebella CCR is helping to future-proof the Caribbean’s built environment,” Nicholas shared. “By replacing corrosion-prone steel with GFRP, enabling local fabrication, and introducing AI-driven efficiency, we are aligning construction with climate reality, and positioning island nations as global leaders in sustainable development.” As the Atlantic hurricane season expands and reshapes life across the region, Rebella CCR demonstrates how resilient design, advanced materials, and connected infrastructure can transform everyday living for Caribbean communities and their global diaspora, creating safer, smarter, and more dignified places built to endure. Company: Rebella Caribbean Composite Rebar Web Address: www.rebellagroup.com Across the Caribbean, developers, governments, and climate-finance institutions are facing the familiar challenge of building with speed, affordability, and the future in mind. The region’s construction model is under strain, impacted by escalating maintenance costs, intensifying climate risks, and salt-laden air corroding traditional steel. Enter Rebella Caribbean Composite Rebar Ltd (Rebella CCR), a rising company determined to rewrite the blueprint for island infrastructure through resilient, sustainable solutions. We spoke with Founder Nicholas Wildman below, as Rebella CCR is named in the Sustainable Building Awards 2025. BUILD Climate Resilience & Innovation Award 2025 & Best Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer Rebar Distributor 2025 Rebella Caribbean Composite Rebar Ltd
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