STV Group
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| STV Group, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| Type | 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 Peter W. Knipe, CFO |
| Industry | Engineering, Architecture, Planning, Construction Management |
| Employees | 1450+ |
| Website | www.stvinc.com |
STV Group, Inc., is a private employee-owned corporation specializing in engineering, architectural, planning and construction management services, serving the building and facilities, transportation and infrastructure, and construction management markets. Employing more than 1400 professionals, STV has 31 offices throughout the United States.
[edit] History
Founded in Pennsylvania in 1945, Sanders & Thomas 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 established to 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, STV Incorporated, which is headquartered in New York City.
On August 29, 2001, STV Group's 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.
