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Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital

Let the Pictures do the talking! Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital Expansion/Addition 5 stories of system scaffold. Odd shapes and customized layouts on every elevation. Giant dance floor at the top. One incredible job! Superior Scaffold provided the scaffolding for the new 22,000 square-foot atrium/lobby as part of the hospital’s expansion/addition at the Cherry Hill campus. And as of this month Kennedy Hospital will be known as Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital as part of a merger between Jefferson Health and Kennedy Health. The cool thing about this job was the layout. We had to follow the curve of the atrium and unique design of the interior to erect this huge scaffold. There...

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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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Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart

Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart Sacred Heart is expanding this old structure in a big way, updating the old 4 story brick school building to a more open-style learning environment. But to do that – they needed to take out most of their support walls and put new steel and concrete in to carry the weight. Normally, not a big deal because you do it one floor at a time. But this job was doing it ALL AT ONCE… Yes, 4 massive floors of concrete and steel being supported or shored up at once. Superior Scaffold engineer, Bob Robinson, had to design...

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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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University of Pennsylvania, Quadrangle

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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Smith Memorial Playhouse – Scaffold & Shoring

Smith Memorial Playhouse The building was designed solely as a play space for children by one of Philadelphia’s most prominent late 19th century architects, James H. Windrim. The open layout of the 24,000 square foot three story brick and masonry structure features floor to ceiling windows, porches and room upon room with a variety of play opportunities for children. Superior engineers designed a system scaffold that would allow the $7 million renovations to take place while the building and grounds remained open for business. Superior’s task was to allow workers access to the playhouse roof, exterior walls, cornice and windows, as well...

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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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Drexel University, The Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (ISB)

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

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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