Sydney Roofing Company Nails Tough Jobs

A Sydney roofing company is fast building a reputation for safely tackling some of Australia's toughest commercial roofing projects. Murphys Metal Roofing and Facade Services works on two projects a month on average, and has installed roofs on major Sydney landmarks such as the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

The company has installed a 70,000 square metre roof the size of 10 football fields on a new Fantastic Furniture store at Villawood in Sydney's west.

"It's our biggest project to date," Sales Manager Peter Ebzery says. "It took us two months just to set up 1.5 kilometres of static line to allow our workers to safely walk on the roof."

Murphys Metal Roofing and Facade Services also recently re-roofed Dee Why RSL using a helicopter.

"We couldn't get a 100 tonne crane into some areas because of infrastructure around the club," Peter says. "So we loaded 1,800 square metres of steel roofing onto a truck and parked it nearby, then used a helicopter to lift the roofing into place. Each lift of steel weighed about half a tonne."

The roofing was LYSAGHT KLIP-LOK 700 HI-STRENGTH® made from COLORBOND® Ultra steel.

Peter says Murphys Metal Roofing and Facade Services uses about 300 tonnes of BlueScope Lysaght roofing products a year.

"We recently replaced the lower roof of the Sydney Entertainment Centre with LYSAGHT KLIP-LOK 700 HI-STRENGTH® made from COLORBOND® Ultra steel because the roofing needed to withstand inner city pollution and strong winds," he says.

The company is one of four business units run by parent company Murphys Group Services, which employs about 40 staff, and is a member of the STEEL BY™ Brand Partnership Program.

"We're proud to be associated with a world class brand, and to align our company's reputation with that of Australia's leading steel supplier," Peter says.

Murphys Metal Roofing and Facade Services works closely with sister company Murphys Height Safety Solutions to deliver consistently high safety standards across all projects.

"We have a policy where possible of using staff rather than sub contractors on roofing projects to maintain our safety standards and high quality of workmanship," Peter says. "We're not looking to be the biggest commercial roofing company in the industry, we want to be known as one of the most professional.

"We want to grow by value adding services like Murphys Height Safety Solutions, which we'd like to expand interstate in the future."

Murphys Metal Roofing and Facade Services previously operated as Murphys Roofing for 16 years.

Peter says the company has experienced 70 per cent growth in metal roofing activity since moving into commercial steel roofing projects three years ago.

"These days most of our jobs are 5,000 to 20,000 square metre roofing projects, and we expect this business to grow up to 10 per cent in the next 12 months," he says.

Fore more information contact:
Peter Ebzery
Murphys Group Services
Ph: 02 9624 7900
www.murphysgroupservices.com.au