What Scott & Murphy, Inc. does

Scott & Murphy, Inc., operating commercially as Murphy Construction Group and Scott, Murphy & Daniel, is a privately held commercial construction firm headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky, founded in 1983. The company delivers an integrated suite of construction services — Design/Build, Construction Management, General Contracting, Renovations/Conversions/Expansions, Pre-Engineered Steel Buildings, Structural Concrete, and Flatwork Concrete — by combining architecture, engineering, and construction management functions under a single delivery team. It serves healthcare, education, religious, and industrial/manufacturing clients through named engagements such as the WKU Clinical Education Complex, Bowling Green Urgent Care, Greenview Surgery Center, Crossland Community Church, and Crown Cork & Seal.

The firm operates with a 100% employee-owned structure (ESOP-type arrangement) and runs two physical offices — the Bowling Green headquarters at 2335 Barren River Road and an Owensboro, Kentucky location at 1855 Old Calhoun Road operated through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Hartz Contracting. Its service territory spans three contiguous markets: South Central Kentucky, Western Kentucky, and Northern Tennessee, with revenue generated on a project-by-project, quote-based pricing model through direct client engagement (phone, website inquiry, project consultation). The business is sales-led, relationship-driven, and produces no disclosed pricing tiers, no public revenue figures, and no technology platform or software product — the offering is fundamentally a services trade.

Name

Scott & Murphy, Inc.

Legal name

Scott & Murphy, Inc.

Website

https://scottandmurphy.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Scott & Murphy, Inc. (d/b/a Murphy Construction Group / Scott, Murphy & Daniel) is a 100% employee-owned commercial construction firm founded in 1983 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, delivering design/build, construction management, general contracting, and specialty concrete and steel-building services to healthcare, education, religious, and industrial clients across Kentucky and Northern Tennessee.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Construction Services

NAICS

Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (236220), Industrial Building Construction (23621)

akta.pro primary industry

Retail & Mixed-Use Commercial Construction (IMAFACAB)

Keywords

• Commercial construction services
• Design build construction
• Construction management
• General contracting
• Pre-engineered steel buildings

Headquarters

HQ city

Bowling Green

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. General Contracting Services: Project-based revenue from general contracting services for commercial construction projects including design/build, construction management, renovations, and pre-engineered steel buildings.
2. Construction Management Services: Professional services revenue from construction management engagements focused on schedule adherence, budget control, and quality delivery.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Scott & Murphy, Inc. provides commercial construction services as a single-source design-build firm, integrating architecture, engineering, and construction management. The company performs Design/Build, Construction Management, General Contracting, Renovations/Conversions/Expansions, Pre-Engineered Steel Buildings, Structural Concrete, and Flatwork Concrete for commercial clients across South Central Kentucky, Western Kentucky, and Northern Tennessee. Projects span healthcare facilities, educational buildings, religious institutions, and industrial/manufacturing sites.

Product overview

Scott & Murphy, Inc. (operating as Murphy Construction Group / Scott, Murphy & Daniel) is a commercial construction company offering a unified suite of construction services. The core offering includes Design/Build, Construction Management, and General Contracting services, supplemented by specialized capabilities in Renovations/Conversions/Expansions, Pre-Engineered Steel Buildings, Structural Concrete, and Flatwork Concrete. The company operates as a single-source design-build team integrating architecture, engineering, and construction management functions to deliver projects from planning phase to ribbon cutting.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Design/Build Services Single-source design-build service integrating architecture, engineering, and construction management for commercial projects of any size, allowing clients to work with one team from planning through ribbon cutting.
• Construction Management Professional construction management focused on schedule adherence, budget control, and quality delivery for projects of any scale.
• General Contracting Full-service general contracting for commercial construction projects, built on a marketplace reputation developed over decades of project delivery.
• Renovations, Conversions, and Expansions Construction services for facility enhancements, with expertise in construction permitting processes and site logistics coordination for occupied or operational sites.
• Pre-Engineered Steel Buildings Custom engineered metal buildings ranging from small simple structures to large complex facilities, marketed as energy efficient and environmentally friendly.
• Structural Concrete Structural concrete construction services delivered as part of the firm's full range of commercial construction capabilities.
• Flatwork Concrete Flatwork concrete services for commercial construction projects delivered as part of the firm's overall construction capability.

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Hartz ContractingminorOthersHartz Contracting is listed as a related entity with an office in Owensboro, KY (1855 Old Calhoun Road, Owensboro, KY 42304, 270-926-6554). It appears to be part of the Scott Murphy & Daniel family of companies under the Murphy Construction Group umbrella.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Turner Construction Company: Largest U.S. commercial construction manager with substantial healthcare, education, and institutional practices. Competes for the same enterprise client RFPs as Scott & Murphy in regional markets but at far larger scale.
• Gilbane Building Company: Privately-held national construction manager with deep healthcare, education, and institutional practices. Competes for larger hospital, university, and civic projects in Scott & Murphy's footprint but offers broader geographic and capital reach.
• Whiting-Turner Contracting Company: Large, privately-held national design/build GC with significant healthcare, education, and commercial portfolios. Competes for the same institutional RFPs as Scott & Murphy in the mid-sized commercial space but at substantially greater scale.
• Balfour Beatty (US): National general contractor and construction manager active in healthcare, education, and commercial sectors with a regional Tennessee/Kentucky presence. Overlaps in delivery model and target verticals, but operates at significantly larger scale.

Emerging players

• Lithko Contracting: National concrete specialty contractor offering structural and flatwork concrete services. Partial overlap with Scott & Murphy's structural and flatwork concrete offerings, but Lithko specializes as a trade contractor rather than full GC.

Direct peers

• The Bernhard Company: Kentucky-based commercial construction firm offering design/build, general contracting, and construction management. Closely comparable in size, geography, and service mix, with overlap in healthcare and institutional segments.
• Denham-Blythe Company: Kentucky-based general contractor with design/build and construction management services across industrial, commercial, and institutional sectors. Direct comparable in scale, geography, and integrated delivery model.
• Kelley Construction: Louisville, KY-based commercial general contractor with design/build and construction management capabilities. Comparable regional peer serving healthcare, education, religious, and industrial clients in the Kentucky market.
• Gray Construction: Lexington, KY-based design/build general contractor serving food/beverage, manufacturing, and distribution. Highly comparable as a Kentucky-rooted design-build firm of similar scale with overlapping industrial and institutional client work.

Regional players

• Messersmith Construction Solutions: Kentucky/Tennessee-based commercial design/build contractor serving healthcare, education, and light industrial markets. Closely comparable regional peer with similar service portfolio and customer verticals.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ScottMurphyDaniel
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/scott-&-murphy-inc.
• Instagraminstagram.com/murphy_construction_group

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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