About Roebling Works
We build the digital version of public infrastructure that lasts.
The civic and government practice of tripleNERDscore, based in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.
John A. Roebling, and the Works
We are named for John A. Roebling, the engineer who founded Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, invented wire rope, and designed the suspension bridges that culminated in the Brooklyn Bridge. In Pittsburgh he built the Smithfield Street Bridge in 1845 and a suspension bridge over the Allegheny River in 1859.
His son Washington Roebling carried the Brooklyn Bridge forward, and Emily Warren Roebling, Washington's wife, completed it, becoming the project's on-site engineer when illness confined him. The original Roebling factory complex was called, simply, the Works.
The throughline we carry: public infrastructure, engineered with care, that still carries load more than a century later. We build the digital kind.
McKees Rocks, in the Pittsburgh region
Home base is McKees Rocks, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, a HUBZone-eligible location in the same region where Roebling's Pittsburgh bridges still stand. It is fitting ground for a practice about durable civic infrastructure.
Roebling Works is the civic and government practice of tripleNERDscore, a Pittsburgh digital agency. We are the serious, procurement-facing face of that company, focused entirely on the public sector. The parent relationship is a quiet endorsement, nothing more: an agency of tripleNERDscore.
tripleNERDscore is a small, independent studio that has spent more than 15 years building websites, web applications, and brand systems for clients across the region. It works with businesses, nonprofits, and public agencies, and it brings the same standards to all of them: accessible by default, built on proven technology, and made to be maintained by the people who own them. Roebling Works is not a fresh start. It carries those 15 years of delivery into government, where those standards are not optional, and the experience behind every Roebling Works engagement is that same seasoned team and track record. You can see the rest of the studio's work at triplenerdscore.net.
Four commitments
Access is a right
We treat accessibility as a civic obligation and a craft, never a compliance burden to minimize.
Respect the public's time
Plain language and clear structure, because a public service should never make people work to understand it.
Build to outlast us
Maintainable systems on proven technology, so the work survives the administration that ordered it.
Say it plainly
No buzzwords, no overpromising, and honest about what is done and what is still in progress.
The people who carry the load
Doug Black
Ashlie Fraley
Claire Black
Brad Caldwell
Work with us
If you are responsible for a public service that needs to work for everyone, let's talk.