E.K. Fox & Associates, Ltd. was founded in 1980 by Eugene Fox, who originally started providing MEP engineering services out of his home. Today, we have completed more than 2,500 projects for commercial and government clients throughout the U.S.A. and worldwide. Learn more about the major changes and events at our company over the years by reading our historical timeline below.
EKFox expands its Chantilly, VA facility to consolidate all personnel at one location. This unification provides a mutual benefit to clients and employees through improved knowledge sharing and teaming opportunities.
EKFox moved our fabrication operations to a new, expanded location in Chantilly, Virginia.
EKFox was awarded our first US patent. We also created the third generation of our independent phase voltage controller (IPVC) system in this year.
Completed our 12th LEED certified gold or silver project.
EKFox completed our firm’s first LEED platinum project on a military base—the Fairfax Village Neighborhood Center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Our team introduced the second generation of our independent phase voltage controller (IPVC) system in this year.
We expanded the size of our Chantilly, Virginia fabrication shop facilities by 300%. We also created the first generation of our independent phase voltage controller (IPVC) system in this year.
The EKFox team created our custom supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, IMCS®.
EKFox opened up our fabrication shop facility in Chantilly, Virginia. Also, celebrating 25 years in business, we held our firm’s Silver Celebration at the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center location in Chantilly, Virginia.
To support our growing team of 34 full-time employees, EKFox moved our offices to Ridge Top Road in Fairfax, Virginia. The new space featured 13,348 square feet of office space. We also completed our first major fabrication project in this year.
Our company now featured an expanded team of 32 full-time employees.
On May 1, 1999, our company moved our offices to a different suite in WillowWood Plaza West in Fairfax, Virginia. The new office included 11,742 square feet of space for our ever-expanding operations. In October of 1999, we shut down our company’s main server for a Y2k upgrade—avoiding the disaster that never happened.
We relocated our operations to a 9,470 square-foot office suite WillowWood Plaza in Fairfax, Virginia in on April 11, 1994.
From a May 26, 1988 announcement to company staff: “EKFox now has fax capabilities. The fax will quickly become a valuable part of our firm’s communications.” The addition of fax capabilities was a notable precursor to EKFox’s ongoing commitment to utilizing the latest technology to ensure we’re offering the very best services and support available for all of our clients.
Our company had grown to include 23 full-time employees.
Our Corporate Board of Directors elected Blair Jost to the position of Executive Vice President.
We relocated our offices to a different space on Lee Highway in Fairfax, Virginia. Our new office encompassed 5,620 square feet of tenant space, giving us far more room to work and expand our operations.
E.K. Fox & Associates, Ltd. was officially incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia on June 30, 1980. Our original office was located in a 1,200 square-foot townhouse on Lee Highway in Arlington, VA. We started out with sawhorses and flat doors for drafting tables, cinder blocks and boards for shelving, and we even had to use a telephone booth in the building next door or the 7-11 at the corner to make calls before our own phone line was installed. We purchased our first computer, a very big and extremely heavy Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II, for $3,899 (over $12,000 in today’s money). Our first project was a tenant buildout at the Bethesda Air Rights building in Maryland. We also established our first long-term relationship with a telephone call from the Director of Engineering and Architecture at the U.S. Department of State, Office of Foreign Building Operations (FBO), now known as the Overseas Building Operations (OBO). These original FBO projects included six sites in Africa.