West Indies Home Contractors Limited began operations in 1958 with the construction of Mona Heights, the first major housing development in Jamaica. Since then the company has built over 38,000 middle to low income 3 bedroom, 2 bedroom and studio homes in 27 communities in the island. All the houses were built using a proprietary concrete precast building system that uses large pools of unskilled labour and at its height constructed 40 studio units per week. A cast-in-place (CIP) building system was introduced by the company in 2003 and is being used to construct 2 bedroom houses at a rate of one per day. In addition to homes, WIHCON has designed and built schools and social buildings using the proprietary building system. WIHCON has built 75 social building projects and has collaborated with the Ministry of Education to erect numerous schools across the island.

Known primarily for building quality homes, WIHCON used its extensive expertise acquired over the years of planning and building greenfield developments, to branch out into infrastructure work. The redevelopment of Hope Road, a main thoroughfare in the city of Kingston, was the company’s first infrastructure project and proved to be most successful. WIHCON was lauded for excellent traffic management, high standards of work and the project became the standard by which all other road projects have been judged. Subsequent WIHCON infrastructure projects have included rehabilitation of Portmore roads, rehabilitation of Montego Bay roads, a section of the North Coast Highway, Coast Road redevelopment and the expansion of the Howard Cooke/Alice Eldemire Drive drainage and roadway in Montego Bay.