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1999

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.

1994

We relocated our operations to a 9,470 square-foot office suite WillowWood Plaza in Fairfax, Virginia in on April 11, 1994.

1988

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.

1982

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.

1980

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.