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Superior Scaffold wins the 2024 GBCA Construction Excellence Award for Best Specialty Contractor!!!!

December 13, 2024

Each year the best in the business descend upon the city of Philadelphia to vie for top construction project honors. And this year, Superior Scaffold took home the prize for the Best Specialty Contractor for our scaffolding work at Rowan University. This is a very cool project (the name gives it away) and you can read the complete blog here. In a nutshell: Superior Scaffold was called in by GC, MPG (Masonry Preservation Group), to help come up with a solution to remove the giant exterior pieces of limestone, label them and then put them back exactly where they should go without...

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Unique Suspended Scaffold Solution, Huntsman Hall, University of Pennsylvania

March 11, 2024

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I was looking for our next blogpost when one of our crew guys mentioned that they just got back from erecting this really unique job at Huntsman Hall at the University of Pennsylvania. So I had to see for myself. Originally, MPG, who was doing a complete restoration, thought scaffolding could be erected on the second-floor outdoor courtyard and around windows that were narrowly framed by architectural columns. But there was not enough structural support on the lower level of the building, nor enough space between the columns to use traditional scaffolding or a high reach. MPG had floated a bevy...

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Superior Scaffold wins the 2024 GBCA Construction Excellence Award for Best Specialty Contractor!!!!

Unique Suspended Scaffold Solution, Huntsman Hall, University of Pennsylvania