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HVJ Associates

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ109974975 ↗
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HVJ Associates is an American geotechnical engineering firm based in Houston, Texas. It is the largest minority-owned firm in Texas.

History

HVJ Associates was founded in 1985 by an African-American civil engineer, Herb Johnson. Johnson has endowed a professorship in the name of Oswald Rendon-Herrero at the Mississippi State University.

In 1994, HVJ was included in Inc. 500 companies.

In 2017, HVJ received ACPA award for concrete-related work.

In 2019, 2020, and 2021, HVJ was included in Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firms list.

Franchising

HVJ Associates operates a franchising model in which it establishes offices in new locations. The firm implements its operating model and trains the branch manager.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 1994, 2017, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Associates, Open-knowledge and entry is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “HVJ Associates” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.