ALDIE, Va. — Loudoun County’s first day of an unprecedented, all-virtual school year during the COVID-19 pandemic will be bittersweet, as a brand-new high school in the Virginia county opens its doors with many of its classrooms empty. Lightridge High School formally opened as the Loudoun County public school system’s 19th high school, situated in […]
“Schools are an essential part of our community infrastructure, and despite the uncertainty about students returning to schools face-to-face this fall, it remains Shockey’s responsibility to get the kids in.” – Jeff Boehm, President, Howard Shockey & Sons, Inc. As students and staff prepare to go back to school this fall, many of them will […]
Reopening K-12 Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prioritizing Health, Equity, and Communities provides guidance on the reopening and operation of elementary and secondary schools for the 2020-2021 school year. The report is available as a free pdf and recommends schools and districts take the following precautions to protect staff and students: Provide surgical masks for […]
The Robinson House, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, is a building with a storied past that got a new lease on life when it reopened in 2019 as a gallery and tourism center in Richmond, Virginia. The following article was written by architectural historian Gordon H. Bock for Traditional Building Magazine. What do […]
This case study documents Shockey’s recent collaboration with UK-based Pointfuse on the Shihadeh Innovation Center in Winchester, Virginia. The partnership delivered an efficient, precise, and flexible way of converting vast, laser scanner-generated point cloud datasets into segmented mesh models that were quickly used and shared across the entire project team. With these models, team members […]
Front Royal, Va. — Valley Health officials expect the new $100 million Warren Memorial Hospital located off Leach Run Parkway to open in the summer of 2021. The 17,000-square-foot three-floor hospital will have 36 private patient rooms, 18 emergency beds, six observation beds, three operating rooms and one cardiac catheterization lab. The hospital’s two major focus […]
Speed, efficiency, and value in construction are driving bottom-line results for manufacturers. With a design-build delivery system, our project team is well-positioned to control costs through the design and construction phases of the work, resulting in significant cost savings and faster speed-to-market for the owner. “Design-build partnerships get the job done better and faster, with […]
Winchester, Va. — Howard Shockey & Sons, Inc. announces that it has been selected among the “Top 400 Contractors” in the USA in the June 2020 issue of Engineering News-Record (ENR), the industry’s leading publication. Rankings were compiled based on 2019 construction revenues. Ranked #344 on this year’s list, with 2019 revenues of $256 million, […]
