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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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Cantilever Scaffold on 28th Floor

Cantilever Scaffold on 28 Floor, Philadelphia, PA Superior Scaffold was called in to help crews get to the decorative steel structure on the outside of the top of this new building construction at 3601 Market Street. But how could we get them and their equipment out far enough to work safely on this structure at the top of the building? A cantilever scaffold from the floor below.  For those of you not familiar with a cantilever system it’s basically a way to use leverage to extend out so the weight of the new deck is supported by the floor below. The initial thought was a...

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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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