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Surprise, surprise, surprise – Suspended Scaffold everywhere at 400 W. Elm, Conshohocken, PA

July 25, 2024

This article was originally titled, "Nuthin’ Fancy – But effective!" Based on the third album from Lynyrd Skynyrd. Panned by critics as a rushed effort; I beg to differ. Lead singer, Ronnie Van Zant, was lyrically at the top of his game - cynical as could be with all the world touring and taking him away from his home and friends. And what can you say about Ed King, Gary Rossington and Allen Collins and their southern twangy rock guitar riffs all over the album? What’s this have to do with this job? Well, I’ll tell you. They named the album...

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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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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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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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Superior Scaffold wins 5th GBCA Best Specialty Contractor Award

February 2, 2022

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Superior Scaffold is proud to win the GBCA Best Specialty Contractor Award for the Reading Terminal Market Swing Solution. Each year the GBCA (General Building Contractors Association) recognizes the highest quality of workmanship and building innovation by Philadelphia area companies and we are honored to be included. Judges reviewed each nomination for workmanship, project management details, originality, innovative elements, and special techniques or materials. The project in a nutshell - there was virtually no way to get restoration crews to the side of the Reading Terminal Market building safely. So Superior Scaffold's Bob Sarkisian came up with a radical idea that...

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Mission Impossible: Scaffolding the Dome on top of the Tropicana Casino, Atlantic City

January 26, 2022

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Ahhhhh, so here we are, 33 stories above the famed beach at Atlantic City. On top of the world-famous Tropicana Atlantic City, Boardwalk Hotel & Casino. Did I say on top? I believe I did. And not metaphorically either, but physically. Why, you ask? Well, today we are showing you one of those insanely crazy suspended scaffold designs that Superior Scaffold’s, Bob Sarkisian, came up with to solve a problem. And let me be the first to say, “this job looks much easier than it really is.” If my boss would let me fly a drone or pilot a small helicopter like...

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301 S. Broad Street – Arthaus monorail, hoist and swing system

November 8, 2021

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This one is spectacular. It really is something to see. I’m just the guy who gets to climb around on things (like a kid on a jungle gym) and take photos but I was blown away. Maybe it was the fact it was 47 stories up? Maybe it was that I got to see our crew guys casually strolling on the edge of the world carrying giant aluminum beams on their shoulders with nothing protecting them except a harness? I don’t know. Maybe it was truly the scope of the job? Or it might have been a combination of everything. I’ve been...

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Reading Terminal Swing Solutions

October 23, 2020

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When Premier Building Restoration needed access the to the side of the Reading Terminal Market building for restoration, they realized they had a big challenge on their hands. There wasn’t much room and the lower roofs didn’t have the structural steel to support a big scaffold, or any scaffold for that matter. To top it off, the dome-like curved roof and jutting cornice wouldn’t allow traditional roof rigging. So how could they get their crew to the facade of the Reading Terminal Market to restore windows, masonry, pointing, caulking, you name it? They called Superior Scaffold. And as Bob, “King of Swing”, Sarkisian was...