Business Barbados 2022

A Fellow of the Barbados Association of Engineers, the highly successful Barbadian entrepreneur Bjorn Bjerkhamn is a Chartered Civil Engineer who has converted his passion for engineering and construction into multiple businesses during an outstanding career that spans more than five decades. Born in Norway, Bjorn Bjerkhamn first came to live in Barbados when he was just six years old, at a time when his family spent many years travelling around the world. By the age of fourteen he had already lived in five different countries on four separate continents, while also visiting many other exotic places around the world. When the Bjerkhamn family settled in Barbados permanently, young Bjorn received his secondary education at The Lodge School, before gaining a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering at the University of The West Indies. Committed to gaining his engineering chartership, the newly graduated Bjorn spent one year working for the island’s then leading construction company, and one year for the top Civil Engineering consultant. After being awarded his charter, he boldly stepped off the edge and launched his own company in 1970 at the relatively young age of twenty- six. By consistently delivering top class work on time and on budget, Bjerkhamn Associates quickly earned high regard within the construction sector, particularly among the high-end homeowner clientele of the west coast’s Sandy Lane Estate. In those early days, Bjerkhamn Associates was particularly well known as a leading specialist in swimming pool construction. But, with an ever expanding list of happy wealthy clients, that soon transitioned into houses and other buildings. In later years, Bjorn’s impressive list of projects would grow to include well-known properties such as Royal Westmoreland, Schooner Bay, Portico, Somerley, Coral Cove, CGI Towers, the Goddard Building, the Judicial Centre, and the Above: St. Peter’s Bay Opposite: Port Ferdinand BUSINESS BARBADOS 2022 38 B J O R N B J E R K H A M N