We are looking for a new addition to our US sales team. Position is remote or based in our Spring, TX office. Know anyone with scaffolding sales experience who would be a great fit? Please encourage them to submit their resume and cover letter to careers@avontus.com. Responsibilities Reporting to the sales manager, you will: Build business by identifying and selling prospects and maintaining relationships with clients. Qualify inbound and outbound leads to ensure product fit. Generate new business by researching potential new customers and making outbound calls. Deliver effective, tailored de ..read more

In complex cross-department collaboration, it’s crucial to ensure information accuracy and transparency throughout your projects. Maintaining visibility and communication among all involved is where challenges arise. Scaffolding businesses – like all companies – lose money due to inefficient workflows. The disconnected deployment of systems across multiple functions – for instance, design, accounting, and the field – can sink your projects: Siloed data between design work and materials counting can cause inventory discrepancies. Inaccurate bills of materials and changing project scopes can le ..read more

The benefits of technology for businesses are obvious: greater efficiency, improved accuracy, and improved communication, just to name a few. However, some industries have been slower to adopt digital solutions because they’ve relied on manual processes for years. Why take the risk of change when something is already working well enough? Until recently, this resistance to change was common in the scaffolding industry. But over the last decade, more businesses have implemented scaffolding technology and reaped the benefits: synchronizing work across locations, speeding up and improving the ..read more

Ever since human beings started building upward, they have used scaffolding of some kind to help achieve their goals. Scaffolding’s origins can be traced back thousands of years. In this article, we explore the fascinating history of scaffolding, from its primitive beginnings to its modern-day innovations.  Prehistoric Era: Paleolithic Cave Paintings in France  If you have the chance to visit the caves of Lascaux in western France, you will see walls covered with thousands of colorful images of animals including horses, bulls, and deer, as well as abstract symbols and human figures ..read more

We are thrilled to announce that we are partnering with Scaffolding Association Australia (SAA) to help international audiences bring efficiency, profitability, and control to every stage of their scaffold projects. Formed in 1994 (previously known as Scaffolding Association Queensland), SAA aims to represent, enhance, and promote the scaffold industry in Australia. Its mission incorporates educating its members by offering support and advice in business management and processes, as well as updates on technological advances in the scaffolding industry, new product information and scaffolding l ..read more

As new developments in technology become available, the decision to incorporate these into your scaffolding business can be a difficult choice. After all, no one likes change!  There is rarely an opportunity to see real incremental advantages to adopting the ‘new’ technology. And yet, every now and again, something comes along that will turn your eye.  If a still picture speaks a thousand words, an interactive experience offers a million! Visualizing a scaffold at the time of an estimate and then again in a quote has often been a rough notebook sketch, a few careful bullet points and ..read more

Originally posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Updated on Wednesday, September 21, 2022.   While we already offer an easy-to-use, standalone design and estimating tool for estimators and salespeople (Avontus Designer®), we want to help out engineers and others who are using CAD-type solutions like AutoCAD, too.   AutoCAD – despite being one of the widely used CAD solutions in the market – still lacks some capabilities (e.g. material counting, specific building components) that are critical to the scaffolding industries.  ..read more

With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0), new technologies made possible by increasingly powerful and complex processors are changing the way we live, communicate, and work. The construction/scaffolding industry is not exempt from this wave of rapid digital transformation, a trend that is only expected to accelerate in a post-pandemic world, according to McKinsey & Company.   Nonetheless, preparing your company for a digital future is not an easy task. According to Forbes, some of the biggest barriers for companies in digital transformation are a lack of budge ..read more

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