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Scaffolding a legend. Lucy the elephant, Margate NJ

August 10, 2022

You can’t miss her. They say you can see her from eight miles away. She’s big, bold, beautiful and a survivor! Lucy the Elephant, the six-story tall piece of zoomorphic architecture located in Margate, NJ, is a national landmark constructed of wood and tin sheeting featuring several rooms accessed through staircases in her legs. She was built in 1881 by James V. Lafferty to promote real estate sales and attract tourists to Margate and the Jersey Shore. And boy has she delivered. As the world’s oldest surviving example of zoomorphic architecture, she is getting a major facelift. Lucy the Elephant is having...

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Spring Garden Street bridge, hanging bridge platform

February 21, 2022

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by superiorscaffold

Here is a really cool and really long hanging bridge scaffold job on the Spring Garden Street bridge in Philadelphia, PA. It’s a 690 foot-long highway bridge that crosses the Schuylkill river below Fairmont Dam. It connects West Philadelphia to the Philadelphia Museum of art and Benjamin Franklin Parkway. It is the fourth bridge at this location. I’m going to put a link to the history of the bridge because it’s fascinating how many different structures have been built there since 1812. The Spring Garden Street Bridge and its sister bridge, The Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Bridge, opened in 1966 to...

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Scaffolding Four Falls – Cantilever, transport platform, work deck and more…

February 9, 2022

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by superiorscaffold

So, you’re sitting on the Schuylkill, just near the Conshohocken exit and what do you see? Traffic, of course, but what else? If you glance to the West you’ve probably seen the Four Falls office building shrouded in scaffolding and black netting. If you took the GBCA Fall Protection Competent Person Training, you’ve been in the building. Just a normal day at the office for the Superior scaffold builders, right? Well, from the highway it sure looks that way but in reality it’s an entirely different story. One that starts in the bowels of the building and juts out over the stream...

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Power Scaffold for a power couple – The Powel House

November 2, 2020

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by superiorscaffold

When you have visitors like Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and George & Martha Washington at your house – it’s important to keep up appearances. And that’s exactly what the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks is doing. The entire facade from woodwork, masonry, roofing and windows is being renovated to make this luxurious mid Georgian 18th century mansion look its best. Superior Scaffold has a reputation for being the go to company for historic structures in the tri-state area. Our crews are highly trained and take the best precautions to leave the site exactly as we found it. The Powel...

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Birds of a Feather. Scaffolding around nesting Peregrine Falcons

March 10, 2016

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This is certainly a first for us in our 65 year history. We’ve erected scaffold just about everywhere and to all kinds of timetables. But we’ve never had to build scaffolding around the schedule of mating peregrine falcons.[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="590"] Photo courtesy of Missouri Department of Conservation's (MDC). The nest in Manayunk, PA looks very similar to this one.[/caption]It seems that the steeple of the Church of St. John the Baptist in Manayunk is the nesting place for a pair of peregrine falcons and also a protected sanctuary designated by the Pennsylvania Game Commission Bureau of Wildlife Management (say...

Look closely – Park Towne Place Apartment Homes, PA

May 29, 2015

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by superiorscaffold

In a world where even the smallest details get blow up on the interwebs it seems harder and harder to get someone’s attention or interest. But this was one of those cool jobs that seemed much less attention-getting from the outset but further digging proved just how creative our designers and crew had to be.What do you see when you look the picture of the debris chute sticking out from the side of the building? A plain debris chute? Look again.It’s a 200 foot high debris chute with access on ALL 20 floors! And in order to have a hopper...

Breathing new life into 4601 Market St. – Negative Air Enclosures

April 8, 2015

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by superiorscaffold

A more appropriate title would be: Sucking Old Life Out of 4601 Market. Say what? The former Provident Mutual Life Insurance campus is going to be turned into a new headquarters for the Philadelphia Police Department, Philadelphia Health Department, and City Morgue. As part of the redevelopment, Superior Scaffold is providing scaffolding support for the negative air enclosures. Yep, you heard correctly. Negative air enclosure – it essentially creates negative air pressure in the building while crews are doing asbestos abatement work. The contaminated air in the building gets sucked out through these large chutes that Superior Scaffold erected (then skinned or wrapped) and...