STV Group

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STV Group, Inc.
Type of Company	Employee-owned
Founded	1912 (SSV&K), 1945 (S&T)
Headquarters	Douglassville, Pennsylvania and New York City, USA
Key people	Dominick M. Servedio, P.E., Chairman/CEO Michael S. Della Rocca, P.E., President & COO Peter W. Knipe, CFO
Industry	Civil engineering, Architecture, Planning
Employees	1450+
Website	www.stvinc.com

STV Group, Inc., (Sanders, Thomas, and Voss) is a private employee-owned corporation specialising in civil engineering services, including transport engineering, structural engineering, environmental engineering, infrastructure planning, pipeline engineering, construction management, architectural design, and several other services. STV is unlike many corporations in that it has one corporate headquarters in Douglassville, Pennsylvania and another in New York City. In addition to the two corporate headquarters, STV is comprised of 29 other offices throughout the United States.

[edit] History

Founded in Pennsylvania in 1945, Sanders & Thomas was a firm which performed process and industrial engineering. The firm was best known for its development of numerous new machines, including the first automatic orange juicer. Sanders & Thomas merged in 1968 with Voss Engineering Company, a manufacturer, to form STV, Inc., a management holding company established to acquire other firms that would later evolve into the present-day STV Group.

The first major acquisition of STV was of Seelye Stevenson Value & Knecht in 1972. SSV&K was founded in New York City in 1912. This firm performed structural engineering services throughout New York and also worked on projects such as the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., the parachute jump at the 1939 World's Fair, NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the Enrico Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

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 increase the firm's abilities within those fields. STV Construction Services was formed in 1994 to undertake Design-Build contracts. Also in 1994, formation of STV/Silver & Ziskind -- which now practices under STV Architects -- added specialized architectural expertise in criminal justice and health care facilities. In 1995, Seelye Stevenson Value & Knecht, Sanders & Thomas and Lyon Associates were renamed STV Incorporated and merged into one company.

On August 29, 2001, the employee and public shareholders approved a proposed transaction to take the firm private with a single owner, the company’s Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Today, STV is a 100 percent employee-owned firm. In 2006, STV acquired another firm, Ralph Whitehead Associates (RWA), a consulting civil and transportation engineering firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina, to extend the corporation's geographic reach into the Southeastern United States as well as its capabilities in the bridge engineering and freight operations.

[edit] External links

Corporate website