STV Environmental
STV is a leading, award-winning professional firm offering engineering, architectural, planning, environmental and construction management services. We consistently rank among the country`s top 25 firms in education, corrections, highways, bridges, rail and mass transit. Throughout the United States and in Canada, STV’s professional, technical and support personnel offer services to a broad and ever-expanding client base. We provide planning, environmental, design, program and construction management, and specialty services for the transportation, design-build, institutional and commercial building, advanced technology, industrial and defense markets.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Engineering service provider
- Industry Type:
- Environmental Management
- Market Focus:
- Internationally (various countries)
- Year Founded:
- 1912
Our Mission
- Creating exceptional value for our clients.
- Performing our services with integrity, vision, innovation, quality and environmental sensitivity.
- Offering our diverse workforce a challenging, rewarding and stable work environment, encouraging their professional development and continuous improvement.
- Benefiting our employee shareholders as a proactive and profitable firm with consistently strong financial performance and increased share value.
We are a 100 percent employee-owned company. Our personal stake in the business motivates us to satisfy our clients. At STV, performance matters.
History
Founded in 1912 in New York City by Elwyn Seelye and Albert Stevenson, Elwyn E. Seelye and Company is the oldest of STV’s firms. Among the most preeminent engineering firms at the time, Seelye provided structural design services for many prominent New York architects and famous landmarks such as the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., the Coney Island Parachute Jump, N.Y., and NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Elwyn Seelye wrote the Data Handbook for Civil Engineers, a classic textbook used for decades. The firm grew to include mechanical and electrical engineering services as it added partners, eventually becoming Seelye Stevenson Value & Knecht. Sanders & Thomas, a Pennsylvania partnership formed by Whitney Sanders and Ralph Thomas, was formed in 1945 with a staff of four. A merger in 1968 with Voss Engineering, an equipment manufacturer no longer associated with the firm, formed STV, Inc., the management holding company that evolved into STV Group, our company’s parent firm. Seelye Stevenson Value & Knecht was STV’s first major acquisition in 1972. Acquisition in 1983 of Lyon Associates enhanced STV’s international capabilities with offices in several key foreign cities. In 1994, formation of STV/Silver & Ziskind added specialized architectural expertise in criminal justice and health care facilities. In the final step of the evolution, Seelye Stevenson Value & Knecht, Sanders & Thomas and Lyon Associates became one operating company, New York-based STV Incorporated, in 1995. The international division was sold back to Lyon Associates founder, Frank Lyon in 1997. The seamless reorganization to STV Incorporated enabled us to use our personnel nationwide and provide a single identity to our clients. On August 29, 2001, STV Group’s employee and public shareholders overwhelmingly approved a proposed transaction to take the firm private and make STV a 100 percent employee-owned firm. In 2006, STV welcomed Ralph Whitehead Associates to the STV family, a consulting civil and transportation engineering firm based in Charlotte, N.C. A transportation-based company founded in 1961 by Ralph L. Whitehead, P.E., RWA expands STV’s highway, bridge and freight expertise, as well as its geographic reach with eight offices located throughout the Southeast. And in 2009, STV created a subsidiary, STV Canada Consulting Inc., to demonstrate our company’s commitment to Canada and to the many clients that we will serve under the auspices of this organization. In October 2012, STV acquired ARCHITECTURE/vbn, an Oakland-based architectural firm that specializes in transportation and educational facilities. In February 2014 STV acquired GWD, an energy services firm based in Denver, CO serving the Rocky Mountain region. GWD is now part of STV’s Energy Services Division.
Today
STV consistently ranks among the top engineering and architectural firms in the country. Today, STV ranks 42nd overall in Engineering News-Record’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms and 23rd in the Top 100 “Pure Designers.” Ranked 12th among ENR’s Top 50 in transportation, we are 9th among the Top 25 in mass transit and rail, 15th in the Top 25 in bridges, and 21st among the Top 25 in highways. Ranked 9th in education, we are also 100th in the Top 150 Global Design Firms and 200 in the Top 200 Environmental Firms. We are 67th among Architectural Record's Top 250 Architectural Firms, and 35th in Consulting-Specifying Engineer's list of the Top 100 Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Engineering Firms.
Markets
- Aviation
- Aviation/Transportation Architecture
- Bridges
- Bus Transportation
- Data Centers and Mission-Critical Facilities
- Education - Colleges and Universities
- Education - PreK through 12
- Energy-Liquid Petroleum, Natural Gas, Electricity
- Environmental
- Facilities - Capital Improvement Programs
- Federal
- Freight
- Health and Science
- Highways and Roadways
- Hospitality and Commercial
- Industrial
- Justice and Institutional
- Laboratory and High-Tech
- Land Development
- Military
- Ports
- Rail Transportation
- Renewable and Alternative Energy
- Security
- Sustainable Design
- Tunnels