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Swing Stages @ St. James

All the world’s a stage at the St. James in Washington Square, PA St. James at Washington Square, Philadelphia, PA All the world’s a stage at the St. James in Washington Square, PA.  At one time we had 8 suspended scaffolds (swing stages) on the exterior of this 45 story high-rise.  This good looking apartment complex sits along Walnut St. and W. Washington Square and is the 12th tallest building in Philadelphia. We got crews access to all levels of the exterior for concrete patch work and repainting.  If you look carefully, you will see that the first two stories are designed to...

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Scaffolding Swimming Pool

Dancing & Scaffolding on Plymouth-Whitemarsh Swimming pool Dancing on the swimming pool?  What?  Only if you have a retractable hardwood and steel pool cover like back in the day. And unless you are Jesus, you are going to get wet.  So what, pray tell, do we mean by this statement?  Well, have a look.  Our scaffold geniuses, led by Nick Lazer, erected this massive rectangle of scaffold inside the giant Plymouth-Whitemarsh pool so work crews could tear down the old ceiling and mechanicals. Our crew delicately worked with the slope of the pool, from shallow to deep end, to provide an amazingly stable...

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Penn Pres Med Center

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, swings, suspended scaffold Penn Medicine began construction on their new 178,000 square foot advanced care pavilion (Powelton Avenue and N. 38 Street) and called swing stage specialist Bob Sarkisian at Superior Scaffold to provide the suspended scaffold necessary to get the facade work done. - See more at: https://www.superiorscaffold.com/penn-presbyterian-medical-center-new-178000-square-foot-advanced-care-pavilion/#sthash.KbNsOGQC.dpuf Penn Medicine began construction on their new 178,000 square foot advanced care pavilion (Powelton Avenue and N. 38 Street) and called swing stage specialist Bob Sarkisian at Superior Scaffold to provide the suspended scaffold necessary to get the facade work done. - See more at: https://www.superiorscaffold.com/penn-presbyterian-medical-center-new-178000-square-foot-advanced-care-pavilion/#sthash.KbNsOGQC.dpuf Penn Medicine began construction on their new 178,000...

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Seneca Niagara Casino Hanging Work Platform

This was an enormous multipoint suspended platform job. What this project entails is getting crews up underneath the ceiling while the casino remains open for business as usual so they can get the new HVAC and mechanicals installed. The solution came in the form of what is called a multi-point suspended scaffold. It’s not only wide, but stable enough to hold equipment, rolling towers, HVAC piping, etc. These giant work platforms actually hang from chains from the arched trusses at the ceiling. It’s netted in so nothing can fall off of the sides and its sturdy enough to support just about...

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Caesars Casino & Resort, Suspended Scaffold

Caesars Casino & Resort Caesars Atlantic City Resort has been expanding and renovating constantly in the past decade with a new hotel tower, parking garage and shopping center. It opened as Atlantic City’s second casino in 1979 as the Caesars Boardwalk Regency. Like it’s counterpart in Los Vegas, Caesars has an ancient Roman theme and boasts 3400 slot machines and is now one of the largest resorts in the area. Superior Scaffold’s swing stage department was called in to help with the EFIS facade replacement on the towers. Superior had to install a roof perimeter guardrail, and duct protection of system scaffold...

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Hanging Bridge Platform, Cherry Hill, NJ

Hanging Bridge Platform, Cherry Hill, NJ Superior was called in to provide a very unique way to get beneath this bridge to make repairs. Instead of anchoring a barge in the water beneath the bridge, or parking a giant truck with a bridge inspection bucket (like a cherry picker with a platform) above it we chose to suspend a platform from the steel beams and girders beneath the bridge itself. The brackets hold the weight of the scaffold platform beneath it and all of the workers, equipment, and parts necessary to make the repairs. It’s effective way to get beneath this structure. By...

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The Pierre Hotel – Suspended Scaffold

The Pierre Hotel The Pierre is a luxury hotel located in Manhattan, New York City, facing Central Park. The hotel opened in 1930, and stands 160 meters tall. It has the distinction of being featured in many moves and tv shows (from Scent of a Woman, Meet Joe Black, Sopranos & CSI). Superior was called into provide the Swing Stages for crews to replace and repoint the grout on the beautiful structure. Superior provided 7 Altrex suspended platforms powered by Power Climber PC1000E hoists to aid in the restoration. The challenge was getting all of the rigging through the world’s most expensive tri-plex...

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Comcast Center – Suspended Scaffold Work Platforms

Comcast Center When asked to provide ceiling access for the enormous atrium in the newly built Comcast Tower, Superior's Bob Sarkisian thought of a revolutionary solution; Design and erect 6 high capacity suspended scaffold platforms, each strong enough to carry up to 3500 lbs. - a far less costly solution than a supported scaffold. Men and material could be loaded on to the scaffold from each floor and the ground. Remote motor operation allowed an operator to raise and lower each platform independently....

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