Howard Shockey Delivers Virginia’s First LEED / Environmentally Friendly Jail
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Roanoke, VA, March 3, 2009 – Howard Shockey & Sons has been building jails for a long time, but the Roanoke facility marks a new milestone for the company. The Western Virginia Regional Jail will be Virginia’s first LEED accredited local jail. (LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, which is the universal standard green building rating system endorsed by the US Green Building Council.) Superintendent Charlie Poff, Jr. affirms, “The Western Virginia Regional Jail will be the first LEED local detention facility in Virginia.””
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With a construction cost of $78 million*