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Superior Scaffold wins the 2024 GBCA Construction Excellence Award for Best Specialty Contractor!!!!

December 13, 2024

Each year the best in the business descend upon the city of Philadelphia to vie for top construction project honors. And this year, Superior Scaffold took home the prize for the Best Specialty Contractor for our scaffolding work at Rowan University. This is a very cool project (the name gives it away) and you can read the complete blog here. In a nutshell: Superior Scaffold was called in by GC, MPG (Masonry Preservation Group), to help come up with a solution to remove the giant exterior pieces of limestone, label them and then put them back exactly where they should go without...

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Sharing the work in the City of Brotherly Love. Mast climbers, swings, scaffolding & shoring (6th & Walnut)

July 9, 2024

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They call Philadelphia that for a reason! This was important for me to highlight because it happens more than you would know. I’m talking about competing firms sharing jobs in the city of Brotherly Love. Sure, we all compete to get as much work as we can but there are times and jobs like these where one company just can’t do all the work. We are competitive, but in the end, we all want the same thing: A safe, well built, completed project that we all can be proud of. I thank Dale Corp for letting me shed some light on an oft...

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Superior Scaffold takes the podium at World of Concrete (WOC) 2024 – SAIA’s Scaffold Builder’s Challenge

March 14, 2024

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Eight of the biggest, baddest scaffold companies in the United States entered the SAIA’s Scaffold Builder’s Challenge, at the 2024 Las Vegas World of Concrete, to vie for the title of best scaffold builder. Each company sent a team of four erectors and one captain to compete in a challenge that not only graded for speed but also safety and sound building practices. The challenge was held indoors this year, probably a good thing, because it rained for two solid days in Las Vegas! Yep. So much so that many people including myself had flight delays coming into the city. The...

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Unique Suspended Scaffold Solution, Huntsman Hall, University of Pennsylvania

March 11, 2024

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I was looking for our next blogpost when one of our crew guys mentioned that they just got back from erecting this really unique job at Huntsman Hall at the University of Pennsylvania. So I had to see for myself. Originally, MPG, who was doing a complete restoration, thought scaffolding could be erected on the second-floor outdoor courtyard and around windows that were narrowly framed by architectural columns. But there was not enough structural support on the lower level of the building, nor enough space between the columns to use traditional scaffolding or a high reach. MPG had floated a bevy...

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3 Floating Walls – Dell Music Center – Scaffolding, Containment Wrap & Tie-Down System

December 1, 2023

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When I first walked on site to take the pictures of the Dell Music Center, I was blown away. I have never seen anything quite like the many steel tie-backs, like marionette strings, holding a scaffold down. I had to take a minute and think about all of the engineering and imagine everything that went into this design. As I wondered around the building and saw the other anchors and tie-down methods being employed on 3 sides of the stage it really stood out as something unique. It's not the biggest job we completed last year but it was probably the...

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Superior Scaffold featured in latest issue of Construction Today Magazine

November 8, 2023

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As it turns out, you don't have to be a new app or program or piece of equipment to be innovative. You just need see things like Bob does. For years he has tackled some of the most challenging projects up and down the east coast. Bob has the uncanny ability to look at a job, that no one can figure out, and come up with a truly unique way to get it done. Who is Bob? Read the article (by clicking any pic) and then see some of his innovative work documented on our blog to find out. Thanks to everyone...

We’d like to thank everyone on our team who contributed to making this unique job a success. If you haven’t about the job, click this link, it’s really an interesting project and a unique solution. Thanks to GMI Contractors and GC, INTEC for bringing us along on this project. As always, thanks the GBCA who does an incredible job for everyone in our industry!

Superior Scaffold wins the Best Specialty Contractor at the 2022 GBCA Construction Excellence Awards!

February 7, 2023

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We are proud to be the winner of the GBCA’s 25th Anniversary Construction Excellence Awards for Best Specialty Contractor for our project: Arthouse Monorail, Hoist and Swing System. We’d like to thank everyone on the team who contributed to making this unique job a success. If you haven’t read about the job, click this link, it’s really an interesting project and a unique solution. Thanks to GMI Contractors and GC, INTECH for bringing us along on this project. As always, thanks the GBCA who does an incredible job for everyone in our industry! Congratulations to all of the winners at the 2022 CEA! And for this...

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Suspended scaffold, canopy and more at 510 N. Broad

July 19, 2022

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From a hole in the ground to a new mixed use apartment complex. LVL North, at 510 N Broad, offers an artful blend of stylish apartments and luxury living. At least that’s what their website says. No matter how you say it, this complex situated in Philadelphia’s “avenue of the arts” neighborhood will certainly create some buzz when it’s completed. Superior Scaffold was called in early on this project by GC, Clemens Construction, to give access support along the way. We started with a stair town in the hole when they broke ground and then erected a canopy/overhead protection system all the...

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Scaffolding Drexel University Main Building – The “Great Court”!

June 16, 2022

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This building is a fantastic example of old world craftsmanship. Completed in 1891 it features some the coolest artwork on the 35 foot tall archway entrance to the main building on Chestnut Street – known as the “Great Portal”. Just look up and you’ll see 12 relief medallion portraits of leaders in their various fields, from Galileo to Newton, forever emblazoned on the building’s Italian Renaissance stucco representing the wide of array of disciplines taught at the university. Now, with that said, we are doing work on the inside of the main Drexel University building on the Great Court that still...

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Spring Garden Street bridge, hanging bridge platform

February 21, 2022

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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...