STV Incorporated is a multinational professional services company that specializes in architecture, engineering, construction management, and planning, along with building and facilities services, transportation, energy, and infrastructure market sectors. STV specializes in education, justice, highways, bridges, rail and mass transit sectors within the United States and Canada. It currently has two headquarters sites:

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History

STV's oldest predecessor firm, Seelye Stevenson Value & Knecht, was founded in

in 1912 as Elwyn E. Seelye & Co. as a structural engineering firm. The firm performed multi-discipline engineering services throughout the country, working on projects such as the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in

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, the parachute jump at the 1939

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at the

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, and the Enrico Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in

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. Sanders & Thomas, another predecessor firm of STV's, was founded in

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in 1945. Sanders & Thomas performed

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and

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and was best known for its military and industrial work. Sanders & Thomas merged in 1968 with Voss Engineering Company, a

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, to form STV, Inc., a management

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established to acquire other firms that would later evolve into the present-day STV Group. In 1983 STV acquired Lyon Associates, which enhanced STV's international capabilities with offices in several key foreign cities. In 1990, STV Environmental and STV Architects were established to increase the firm's abilities within those fields. STV Construction Services was formed in 1994. Also in 1994, the acquisition of STV/Silver & Ziskind added specialized architectural expertise in

criminal justice Criminal justice is the delivery of justice to those who have been accused of committing crimes. The criminal justice system is a series of government agencies and institutions. Goals include the Rehabilitation (penology), rehabilitation of o ...

, education, and

health care Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health profe ...

facilities. In 1995 Seelye Stevenson Value & Knecht, Sanders & Thomas and Lyon Associates were renamed STV Incorporated and merged into one company, STV Incorporated (STV), which is headquartered in

. STV Group, the parent company, is headquartered in

. In 2006, STV acquired Ralph Whitehead Associates (RWA), a consulting civil and

transportation engineering Transportation engineering or transport engineering is the application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for t ...

firm based in

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, to extend the corporation's geographic reach into the

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as well as its capabilities in the

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engineering and freight operations. STV acquired DPM in 2015. Based in Newton, MA, and Hartford, CT, STV, DPM provides owner's project management services to assist clients through staff augmentation and project specific leadership throughout the entire project lifecycle including master planning, feasibility studies, building assessments, design management, pre-construction, construction oversight, relocation management and project closeout.

References

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