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Merrick Construction Companies, Inc. is composed of Merrick
Mechanical and Merrick-Kemper. Since 1902 the name Merrick has been synonymous with
quality and service in contracting. Merrick Construction Companies’ history dates
back to 1902, when the operations began as the Falls City Cornice & Roofing Company.
As the company developed, the name was changed in 1958 to The Merrick Company, Inc.
reflecting the pride in accomplishments of quality and craftsmanship achieved by the
family over the years. With further development mechanical piping and industrial sheet
metal became an important operating part of the company. During this time individual
companies were set up: the Merrick Company, Inc. (Industrial Sheet Metal), Merrick
Mechanical, Inc. (Mechanical Contractors), and Merrick-Kemper (Roofing and Architectural
Sheet Metal). Within a relatively short period of time, the three companies were
recognized as having the highest quality and the top craftsmen in their field. In the late
1980’s, with the fourth generation of Merricks in their early thirties and forties,
it was decided that the companies would be joined together in order to reduce duplication
and to achieve tighter control, and enable the new company, Merrick Construction
companies, Inc., to be more responsive to the market place.
Merrick, in construction, probably offers more of a variety of items of service than
any other contractor in this area. We have gradually grown into having expertise in these
areas of construction in the past ninety plus years and more specifically in the past
twenty-five years. The production employment level of MCC normally varies between one
hundred forty and one hundred eighty employees. In addition, there are approximately
twenty project managers, accounting, administrative, safety and personnel employees in
management. Our ability to assemble qualified workers for both planned and emergency
situations for our core work comes from the large employee workforce that we employ. For
our core work, for our industrial customers, on an emergency situation we can deploy
twenty, forty, or sixty workers in a matter of several days.
Forming an alliance or partnership with its customers is very much a desire and
management philosophy of Merrick Construction and certainly a modern concept of doing
business today. Our vision for Merrick Construction is that it continue to grow at a
practical and profitable pace, ever increasing its ability through well trained and
knowledgeable production and management employees. This vision also entails continuation
of our technological progress, such as equipment upgrades and computerization, to better
serve our customers with higher productivity and efficiency. |
