The Mechanical Contractors Association of America serves the unique needs of approximately 2,600 firms involved in heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, plumbing, piping, and mechanical service.
About Us
History
How Murphy Started
In 1882, John C. Murphy traveled to St. Louis, Missouri, with the intent of creating a better life. The Irish lad came to learn the plumbing trade and in 1907, confident in his mastery, formed John C. Murphy Plumbing Co. Little could he have imagined that he was launching a firm destined to become the largest mechanical contractor in St. Louis, opening an office in Denver in 1983, and becoming the 17th largest in the United States. Nor could he have envisioned the decades to follow that his enterprise would make a better life possible for thousands of customers and employees.
From our origins as a two-man plumbing shop to today, Murphy Company employs over 300 salaried workers and 1,000 union craft workers in the pipefitter, boilermaker, plumber, sheet metal, HVAC, and laborer trades from its headquarters in St. Louis and regional offices in Colorado.
Murphy Today
Patrick J. Murphy, Jr., John’s great-grandson, is the fourth member of the close-knit Murphy clan to become president of the company, succeeding his cousin James J. Murphy, Jr., in 2005. While our record of success is impressive, it’s the people who count the most. We support our employees throughout our company, ensuring they have the tools, training, and technology to make them successful. We continuously recruit top talent within our industry and invest in their ongoing skill development. Our employee’s health, safety, and well-being remain our top priority. We want each employee to return safely to their family each day so we insist on maintaining safe work sites for all our employees and customers.
Since our founding more than a century ago, Murphy Company has built a proud legacy of excellence that is alive and well today. Much of our business is built on repeat customers who partner with us year-after-year because of the high level of customer service and expertise that are synonymous with the Murphy name.
Corporate Message
Murphy Company is a premier national contractor designing, constructing, and maintaining mechanical systems for the commercial, industrial, and institutional markets with unique capabilities to manage complex and demanding projects. We continually innovate and improve our business processes to maximize value for our customers and to better our company’s performance. We achieve this through safety excellence, empowerment of our people, effective teamwork, development of our partners, and dedicated customer focus.
Purpose
Provide Valuable Solutions to Our Customers.
Our century of success come from consistently delivering quality design, construction, and service to our customers. Murphy Company’s innovative solutions are rooted in experience and driven by value.
Core Values
At Murphy, it is people who count most.
Murphy develops relationships from the inside out, starting with our employees and then with our customers and the community. We understand our employees are the backbone of our business because of the integrity and professionalism they exude to all the people we serve.
Employee well-being is our top priority. That’s why we offer comprehensive safety training and pledge to return each of our employees home safely each night. Murphy consistently ranks as a Top Workplace and has been honored as one of St. Louis’ Healthiest Employers because of our health fair and wellness offerings.
Murphy’s reputation is built on the enduring relationships we continually foster with customers, suppliers, professional service firms, and our employees. We are a family-owned company built on trust. Our history of multigenerational family involvement remains a defining characteristic with more than 30 current employees with immediate relatives who have worked for or still work for Murphy.
Integrity and professionalism underlie all we do. For us, a handshake still means something. A promise made is a promise kept, whether working with a customer, vendor, or employee. We call it doing the right thing – always – even when no one is looking.
Affiliations
Murphy Company is a long-standing member of many professional and trade associations, ensuring our employees continually remain current on industry innovations. They provide an excellent vehicle to trade information and resources.
SMACNA
The Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association (SMACNA) is an international trade association representing 1,834 member firms in 103 chapters throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and Brazil.
NEBB
The National Environmental Balancing Bureau is the premier international certification association for firms that deliver high performance building systems.
MSCA
The Mechanical Service Contractors of America is the leading organization for HVACR contractors, providing education, marketing, and labor/management services to assure its contractor members deliver quality performance, value and expertise for all building system needs.
ASHRAE
ASHRAE is a global society advancing human well-being through sustainable technology for the built environment. The Society and its members focus on building systems, energy efficiency, indoor air quality, refrigeration and sustainability within the industry.
PHCC
The Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association is the oldest trade association in the construction industry—and the premiere organization for the p-h-c professional.
AGCA
The Associated General Contractors of America is the leading association for the construction industry.
ASME
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a not-for-profit membership organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, career enrichment, and skills development across all engineering disciplines, toward a goal of helping the global engineering community develop solutions to benefit lives and livelihoods.
AWS
The American Welding Society is a nonprofit organization with a global mission to advance the science, technology and application of welding and allied joining and cutting processes, including brazing, soldering and thermal spraying.
ASA
The American Subcontractors Association is recognized as the united voice dedicated to improving the business environment in the construction industry.