About
Associated Scaffolding
Associated Scaffolding Company, Inc. is proud to announce that for over 60 years our driving motivation has been to provide excellent products and services to our valued customers. In 1947, most of our customers were painters in the Durham, North Carolina area, who rented frame scaffolding primarily for church interior jobs. For many of these jobs we erected and dismantled the scaffolding, as well.
For the last 40 years, Associated Scaffolding Company has been owned and operated by the Hawkins Family. Gene Hawkins bought the company in 1968 and ran it until his retirement in 1985. At that time the current President, Tommy Hawkins, Gene’s son, assumed leadership of the company and has greatly expanded its scope. The third generation of the Hawkins family, Tommy’s sons, Jeff and Brian, has entered the business.
In the beginning, when the company was very small, we had only four employees and just two vehicles. Today there are more than 120 employees and approximately 70 vehicles spread out over three states. Our service area includes North Carolina with branches in Durham and Greensboro, South Carolina with a branch in Columbia, and Virginia with a branch in Richmond. We have 12 sales representatives that cover most of the Southeast with services, such as design, product knowledge, and competitive pricing for our access equipment rental, sales, and/or erection/dismantle.
We have many years of OSHA-certified experience and provide OSHA safety classes. No job is beyond our ability or knowledge to handle, from building scaffold on top of the water at Ripley’s Aquarium, Myrtle Beach, SC filled with sharks and other sea creatures...to building system scaffold on I-Beams starting at the second floor exterior level of a motel, without reaching the ground and going up 15 floor levels...to hanging swing stages around giant bridge columns...to wrapping system scaffold around church steeples… to building system scaffold in Duke University’s Aquatic Center’s diving pool, starting 17 feet underwater and continuing out of the water up to the ceiling……… in other words, if it can be done, we can do it.
So, what needs do you have that do not have an easy or obvious solution? Contact us to see what we can offer for your situation.
Mission Statement
We put the unattainable within your reach.
