Jackson Mechanical Service, Inc. and Streets, LLC — two of Oklahoma’s oldest mechanical contractors — have merged to form Jackson Streets MEP Contractors, creating the largest union-staffed mechanical contractor in the state. The agreement was signed earlier this year and formally announced this month. Terms were not disclosed.
The combination.
Jackson Boiler and Tank Co., later known as Jackson Mechanical Service, was founded in 1957. Streets Plumbing and Heating Co., later Streets, began serving local customers in 1960 and operates as a third-generation company. Together they bring more than 250 union-member technicians, sales professionals, office staff, and managers into one organization, headquartered in Oklahoma City with a branch in Tulsa.
The two books are complementary rather than duplicative. Jackson’s strength is full-service work — HVAC, boilers, chillers, plumbing, electrical, and maintenance across commercial and industrial customers, with 24/7 emergency response. Streets brings design-assist construction, BIM modeling, and large-scale mechanical contracting. One side carries the service and maintenance base; the other carries the engineering-forward construction capability. Very little overlaps.
Both legacy logos and their brand equity will be retained alongside the new unified identity, according to President Matt Olson, who described the transaction as “a commitment to excellence, union craftsmanship” and the future of mechanical contracting in the state. Kevin Cockerham, formerly president and chief executive of Streets, becomes vice president of sales for the expanded company. The customer base spans schools, universities, hospitals, manufacturing facilities, commercial developments, Native American tribes, and local, county, and state government agencies. The company is moving into a new Oklahoma City headquarters and retaining the phone numbers of both former locations.
What it means.
Two independents choosing each other rather than a bid is the signal here. A merger of this shape trades immediate liquidity for scale and continuity: the brands survive, the workforce stays intact, leadership from both sides carries forward, and the combined entity becomes large enough to pursue work neither could have chased alone.
There is an offensive edge to it as well. Scale in commercial mechanical is increasingly the price of admission on the largest projects, and a union labor pool of 250-plus is a genuinely scarce asset in a market where every buyer is competing for licensed technicians. Combining first also changes what any future transaction looks like — a single multi-trade contractor carrying both a service base and design-assist capability presents very differently than either company would have alone.
For owners of commercial and industrial mechanical businesses, the practical read is that selling into a platform is not the only route to scale. Merging with a complementary peer is a live alternative, and it deserves to be evaluated on the same terms as an outright sale rather than treated as a fallback.
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