HVJ Associates is an American geotechnical engineering firm based in Houston, Texas. It is the largest minority-owned firm in Texas.
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.
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. Once a revenue threshold is met, the branch is converted into an independently owned franchise through an asset purchase agreement.