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University of Pennsylvania, Quadrangle When the University of Pennsylvania needed scaffolding to renovate their 1895 Quadrangle, they turned to Superior to provide it. The $67 million dollar project has restored and adapted the U of P’s most prominent historic buildings and once again made it the hub of intellectual, social, and recreational activity....
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Drexel University, The Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) Superior Scaffold was the company of record to provide scaffold services to this $49.7 million five story, 135,000 square feet, modern marvel that will house 39 research and teaching laboratories for biomedical engineering, biology and chemistry. It also will have a fossil preparation lab. ISB is expected to be LEED silver and Green Globes-certified, partly because of a bio-filter wall, which will be the first of its kind in an American university. The vegetated wall will be nearly 40 feet high and covered in live plants to help purify the air and oxygenate...
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Baptist Temple Church Superior Scaffold was at the heart of this historic building’s rebirth and revitalization. The 36,000 square foot structure, designed in the Victorian Romanesque Revival and Richardsonian styles, received a full renovation that resurrected the building as a premier venue for arts and cultural productions. Thanks to Superior’s engineering team, the spectacular Thomas P. Lonsdale-designed edifice is now poised to reclaim its historic role as the heart of Temple University....
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Emergency canopy. A piece of the facade fell off. A facade rebuild was required when inspectors found the entire exterior was damaged....
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Henry Hall, Princeton University Superior was called in to erect and dismantle a system scaffold for work on a parapet wall. The challenge was to build scaffolding on roofs and provide roof protection on the 200 year old building. Superior also had to deck one solid level around all the parapet walls. We also provided a 1000 pound basket hoist on the job, including all overhead door protection. This scaffolding had a ladder and gate access. Scaffolding that rested on the ground had a plywood base around the perimeter and the rest of the scaffolding had debris netting. The building had to...
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1500 Boardwalk The 1500 Block Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ System scaffold and enclosure (containment wrap) around the entire block of the boardwalk!...
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Kennedy Memorial Hospital Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Stratford, NJ was doing an entire facade renovation. An enclosure system was used around the entire building to help keep the warmth in and the debris from traveling around the hospital grounds. It was a dual purpose enclosure because most of the work was taking place in the cold winter....
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Parc Rittenhouse Sullivan Construction needed to add three floors to the top of the Parc Rittenhouse building in downtown Philadelphia and knew of Superior's experience with high exposure cantilever scaffolds. We had successfully completed a 10th floor cantilever system around three sides of Philadelphia's historic Victory Building. Utilizing shoring towers inside and aluminum beams jutting out the windows, Superior was able to lay a solid work deck around the entire 17th floor of the building. We then erected a 45' high systems scaffold to allow worker access to each of the floors as they were constructed....
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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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