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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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Brown Hall, Princeton University

Brown Hall, Princeton University As part of their new green initiative, Princeton University is also upgrading Brown Hall, which was designed in 1890 and has served as an upper-class dormitory for many years. This renovation will create a new building portal (archway) in the south facade of the structure allowing a new point of access and egress from Brown’s interior courtyard. Superior was brought in to install & dismantle shoring posts and beams on all 4 floors, also the basement, bathrooms, and archway. Granite stairs will eventually connect the higher elevation of the interior courtyard with the lower exterior walkway. The new archway...

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