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Construction Underway on Pivotal Freight Corridor Program Between Baltimore and Philadelphia

STV’s decades-long history of providing program and construction management services for transportation projects in and around Baltimore, coupled with the organization’s experience supporting a wide range of infrastructure programs for the nation’s leading freight railroads, is currently being realized by ...

STV Perspectives

Creating a Modern Traction Power Converter Facility for SEPTA

Throughout the passenger rail market sector, the need to modernize our traction power infrastructure has emerged as a major priority for transit agencies in terms of making service more reliable for users. In many cases, some of the largest agencies ...

Project News

Skating Ahead: STV Designs New LIRR Elmont Station to Serve Belmont Redevelopment

STV is bringing its design expertise to the Long Island Rail Road’s (LIRR) first new station in more than 45 years to improve transit access to a growing area currently undergoing significant redevelopment. STV is the architect- and engineer-of-record for ...

Employee News

STV Rising Star Named to 20 Under 40 Listing

Alexandra Chamandy-Cook, P.E., associate and engineer in New York, was selected by the Professional Women in Construction (PWC) as one of this year’s 20 Under 40 outstanding women in construction. “It’s such an honor to be selected from such ...

Project News

Promising New Antiviral Technology to Combat Coronavirus Could be Applied to Mass Transit

As more communities and businesses strive to safely return to some semblance of normalcy during the COVID-19 pandemic, STV is playing a key role in helping to bring an innovative antiviral air treatment solution to our nation’s mass transportation network. ...

Project News

A Sign of the Times: Wayfinding at Jamaica Station

Nearly two decades after STV helped transform Jamaica Station in Queens into one of the busiest intermodal transit hubs in North America, the firm is playing a key part in a massive wayfinding overhaul at the station. STV has been ...

Project News

Projects Take Home Honors from ACEC NY

Innovative STV projects were recently honored by the American Council of Engineering Companies New York Chapter (ACEC New York) with Engineering Excellence Awards. Receiving a Diamond Award in the Special Projects category was the Metro-North Railroad Patterson Bridge Replacements project, ...

Project News

Waterloo Light Rail Project Earns Gold

Stage 1 of the ION rapid transit system in Ontario, Canada, also known as the Waterloo Light Rail Transit (LRT) project, received a Gold Award in the Service Delivery category from The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships, as part of ...