This year, Mulhern+Kulp celebrates 25 years. From our humble beginnings—with Mike Mulhern and Joseph Kulp working in their basements—to a thriving firm with offices across the country, every project, customer, vendor, colleague, and employee has helped shape who we are today. THANK YOU for your role in our success!
We recently marked this milestone celebrating aboard the USS Battleship New Jersey—honoring our journey and looking ahead to the future we’ll all build together.
Our Mission is unchanged: “Inspire Innovative Thinking. Build Award-Winning Culture. Transform Customers into Raving Fans”. We’re excited to continue pushing the boundaries on these pillars.
*We all know that Alaska is the 49th state. But for M+K, Alaska is our 50th licensed state…and we couldn’t be more thrilled to say that we’re now licensed in every state in the union.
M+K has been partnering with DRB Homes on an educational initiative aimed at improving the understanding and application of structural drawings among personnel in DRB’s various divisions.
Targeting managers, field personnel, and purchasing teams, our seminars blend informative classroom presentations with hands-on field experiences. Participants engage in an interactive scavenger hunt at active job sites, allowing them to learn how to interpret and utilize structural drawings within a real-world construction context. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, prompting a formal request from DRB’s Vice President of Production for these seminars to be expanded across all divisions. Each session is tailored to address the unique structural drawing requirements of specific regions.
DRB and M+K employees bond following one of our seminars. Good times had by all!
This initiative not only enhances comprehension of structural drawings but also strengthens relationships among team members, facilitating smoother collaboration and proactive problem-solving in the field. By putting faces to names during our seminars, field managers feel more at ease reaching out with questions, helping to prevent costly mistakes before they arise.
DRB has been a valued client since 2013, and we are appreciative of opportunities like this that continue to develop our partnership.
Since opening the doors of our newest branch office over a year ago, we’ve made great strides in our goal to bring our unique brand of structural engineering to the New England Region from the heart of Boston.
Beginning with an award-winning direct mail campaign and some good old-fashioned phone calls and handshakes, client relationships began to emerge. Single family home projects quickly expanded to regions outside Boston and into neighboring states. Transforming customers into raving fans has always been at the heart of our mission at M+K, so we’re proud to have found repeat work with nearly all clients we worked with in 2023.
Going forward through 2024, our main objective of continued growth will be furthered with the addition of two employees to the office this summer. The new team members will provide the resources needed to help take on a greater quantity and variety of projects while building on the “work hard, play harder” culture that has made all of our offices such great places to work. With their sights set on all six New England states, we are very eager to see what’s next for the Boston office!
We’re very proud to showcase Mulhern+Kulp’s ‘Women in Engineering’ group, comprised of 12 members across our Philadelphia, Atlanta, and San Diego offices. WIE launched over two years ago in support of the diversity initiative from our 2020 strategic plan.
The Mission of WIE is “Retention, Community, Volunteering” with the goal to positively impact the work experience, careers, recruiting, and retention of female engineers at M+K. At its core, the group provides a community of support and mentorship for members to discuss topics and challenges unique to their experiences as women engineers.
Working in collaboration with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), our WIE members presented ‘Introduce a Girl to Engineering’ at a high school in Marietta, GA, attended a SWE networking dinner at Villanova University, and participated in Habitat for Humanity’s ‘Women’s Build Day’ in San Diego.
In keeping with the spirit of Giving Back at M+K, the WIE group created a team to raise funds, promote, and participate in the nationwide Susan G. Komen ‘Walk for the Cure’ event on behalf of Breast Cancer Awareness month. A ‘Wear Pink Day’ fundraiser was staged at each of our offices which contributed to the overall achievement of raising $4,000+ in support of research and advocacy to combat breast cancer!
We’re looking forward to WIE’s continued positive contributions to M+K’s staff and culture, as well as their charitable efforts and their promotion of engineering as a great career opportunity for young women.
My name is Rob Taylor, Marketing Director here at Mulhern+Kulp.
Initially, the bulk of my career was focused on strategic brand identity development and packaging design. I worked with multi-national corporations such as Procter & Gamble, Mattel, and Disney, among many others. I then started a consulting business, with the intent of bringing my consumer goods marketing experience to the business-to-business sector. This ultimately led me to M+K.
M+K was the first engineering firm I’d ever worked with. When I transitioned from consultant to full time employee about 7 years ago, I began the process of getting to know everyone. I must admit that, coming in, my view of engineers was shaped by stereotypes from TV, movies, and books – basically, introverted math nerds.
As time passed, I realized that M+K was anything but a monolith. Among our great employees is a published author, several musicians [some have published songs], a world traveler who has climbed Kilimanjaro [among other feats], talented golfers, basketball & soccer players, skiers, cyclists, a yoga teacher…I could go on!
Speaking of musicians, I don’t think there’s a better example of how interesting, diverse, and creative our staff is than the fact that we have an M+K Band! Members include multiple singers, guitarists, keyboardists, bass players, and a drummer who plays in jam bands [also a rabid Phish fan]!
The lesson for me is best summed up by the idiom ‘You can’t judge a book by its cover’. This truly is a great place to work, and we have 10+ years’ worth of workplace culture awards to back up that claim!
