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Superior Scaffold wins the 2025 GBCA Construction Excellence Award for Best Specialty Contractor!!!

December 9, 2025

In an amazing setting, the best of the best in the city gathered at the 28th Annual Construction Excellence Awards to honor the region’s most outstanding construction achievements. Held at the National Constitution Center, the venue was the perfect place for the GBCA to unveil their new award format. Not only did it showcase the important work but gave attendees from a wide variety of trades the time to mingle and celebrate before and after the awards presentation. Superior Scaffold was proud to win for the Bellevue Hotel renovation as it was one of (if not) the largest supported scaffolds in the history...

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Superior Scaffold and Armor Masonry take on the largest supported scaffold job in the history of Philadelphia!!!

November 25, 2025

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The Historic Bellevue Hotel. This record-setting Scaffold is 271 feet high, and two city blocks long – 404 feet! And that’s not even counting the 3rd side. There were lots of obstacles that had to be overcome with this one. Read on for the details. The owners of The Bellevue are renovating this historic 19 story building, constructed in 1904, into a new powerhouse mixed use structure with 155 residences, offices, hotel rooms, glorious event rooms and more. And as part of the massive revitalization project - Armor Masonry was awarded the exterior renovation contract to bring this beauty to her former...

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Construction Today Magazine features Superior Scaffold and The Bellevue Hotel (the largest supported scaffold in Philly history)

September 29, 2025

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What an awesome site! Not only was scaffolding The Historic Bellevue Hotel, for it's renovation, an incredible feat in itself, and something to see, but to have the GBCA's Construction Today Magazine write about it - is an honor as well. Armor Masonry's PR and Biz Dev badass, Melissa Wyatt, teamed up with Superior Scaffold's Head of Sales and Marketing to give readers a quick inside look at what went on with, arguably, the city's largest supported scaffold job. Click any of these pics here to be taken a version that you can actually see and read! Click this link to...

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Scaffold maze in courtyard on Greys Ferry Ave.

September 26, 2025

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I posted this job to show just how creative Superior Scaffold erectors can get when erecting a system scaffold. This job was for EDA Contractors and we had to get their crew to the roofline of this building without touching the structure or damaging any of the landscaping. This shot sums up how awesome our scaffold erectors are! They had to do this all around the property to get the scaffold into just the right spot to keep building up to the roof. These photos were taken as the scaffold was going up. The finished product was decked in solid around the perimeter...

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Suspended Scaffold and overhead protection all around 17th and Market!

September 23, 2025

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This is an impressive job! Not only from a scaffold or access point of view, but on every level. GC, Clemens Construction really did a great job at 17 Market West transforming this 18 story office tower into luxury units. Originally built in 1957, this complete interior/exterior conversion is a prime example of adaptive reuse, aligning with evolving market demands and sustainable construction practices. Superior Scaffold brought out an army of swing stages to help with the exterior renovation. A total of 14 suspended scaffold units around the building, all helping crews reskin the entire structure and reach areas for adding new steel,...

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Jefferson Einstein Montgomery Hospital Helipad Scaffold, shoring and badassery.

May 15, 2025

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Superior Scaffold was called in to build a one-of-kind super structure and all-around awesome cantilever scaffold at the helipad for the emergency department at Einstein Hospital. This baby was getting the complete makeover treatment from new undergarments, hair style and a set of fabulous new clothes so she could wow the world once again with her functional beauty. What that means is that Superior worked with Construction Manager, Target Building, to shore up the underside while they replaced and repaired the structural steel underneath and then put on a brand-new deck and coating system so this helipad functions as well as she...

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Superior Scaffold’s debut at the Miller Theater – scaffold, swings, truss and overhead protection!

April 18, 2025

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Superior Scaffold was called in by GC, Clemens Construction, to provide overhead protection and suspended scaffold for the renovation of the Miller Theater, at 250 South Broad Street, within the Avenue of the Arts cultural district of Center City Philadelphia. The Miller Theater is the most prestigious location for touring Broadway shows, so the building needed to look as good as the entertainment it is putting on. Superior provided the swing stages (suspended scaffold) that crews used to reach every inch of the facade for cleaning, repairing, replacing and repointing. One of the biggest challenges was to span the iconic Miller Theater...

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Smokestack Scaffold – Work Deck and Transport Platform

April 1, 2025

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We’ve done many of these and it always amazes me how our guys build them. And even more amazing is how the restoration crews work up there and accomplish their tasks. In this case, Jon Goodroad and his crew from Joseph Dugan, Inc., called Superior Scaffold to get them up to the top so they could actually remove the top 6 feet of the smokestack, repair the damage, recap it and then restore the remaining parts of the chimney, making it sturdy and safe once again. They originally wanted stairs to get the men to the top of the 80’ tall smokestack....

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2 Scaffold Trolley systems at CHOP Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care

March 4, 2025

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Superior Scaffold designed two scaffold trolley systems to help D.M. Sabia place giant stones on the side of the facade for the CHOP Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care. For this particular location, on Health Science Dr., it helped in the speedy, yet safe, movement of large stones up and over the garages in the back - from one end of the building to the other. Using a hoist to lift the stones up and scaffold beams to trolley the hoist, and the stone, down the line and into place, D.M. Sabia was able to save time and money positioning these...

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Scaffolding St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia, PA

January 16, 2025

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This one was hard to miss. If you are a regular in the Rittenhouse Square area – or were just passing through, St. Patrick’s Church has been a fixture here since 1839. And when one of Philadelphia’s most prestigious old buildings needed major renovation work – who do you think they called? Superior Scaffold was proud to have been chosen to provide the scaffolding and access work on this historic landmark. Our decades of experience working with delicate buildings for renovation companies made us the perfect choice when Turner Construction won the contract. This project involved a ton of moving parts, from...