In 2009, Urban Umbrella® beat out over 260 contestants to win urbanSHED, an international design competition organized and led by the New York City Department of Buildings. The competition, the only one of its kind to date, was aimed at creating a safer, more attractive, pedestrian-conscious alternative to traditional sidewalk scaffolding.

With the win, Urban Umbrella became the first new sidewalk scaffolding design on the market in over 50 years and was bestowed the exclusive right to produce sidewalk scaffolding that differs from the traditional “hunter green” New York City Building Code-mandated standard.

 

Today, Urban Umbrella remains the only alternative to traditional sidewalk scaffolding on the market.