STV Incorporated is a multinational professional services company that specializes in architecture, engineering, program and construction management, planning and advisory services for transportation systems, buildings water and other facilities. Headquartered at the

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, STV is a portfolio company of

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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, including the

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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

manufacturer Manufacturing is the creation or Production (economics), production of goods with the help of equipment, Work (human activity), labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of the secondary se ...

, 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 of offenders, preventing other ...

, education, and

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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

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. 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 to provide for the safe, ...

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.. In 2021, STV Group, Inc. acquired CP&Y, Inc., an employee-owned engineering, architectural, and field services consulting firm with a staff of over 375 professionals in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Florida, and Virginia. This significantly expanded STV's presence in Texas and the south-central United States and extended the firm's capabilities in water and highway engineering. In 2023, STV acquired American Engineers, Inc. (AEI), a full-service civil engineering firm with a staff of more than 120 professionals in Kentucky and Georgia to further serve clients in the Southeastern U.S. In 2024, STV Group, Inc., further bolstered its infrastructure services in the Southeast, acquiring MEHTA and Associates, Inc., an engineering and construction engineering inspection firm with more than 75 professionals in Florida.

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