Scaffolding

Why is Hong Kong last frontier for bamboo scaffolders?

9 Mar 2013

In Hong Kong - the last frontier of bamboo scaffolding - where tall, skinny buildings shoot up daily, more than five million bamboo rods, each six to seven metres long, are used every year by the...

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China Digest, October 11, 2012

11 Oct 2012

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Concrete fells scaffolders

Two scaffolders working in Kwun Tong were hurt when a lump of concrete was dislodged and hit them. They were working outside the second-floor flat of a...

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Building confidence

27 Apr 2006

THE FAMILIAR LATTICEWORK rises a few storeys a day. Within months, nimble workers have weaved the bamboo frame to dizzying heights, wrapping buildings with a second skin. Developers build...

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Danger from above

15 Jul 2005

Hong Kong's streets are not safe. Until the government does something about it and stops thinking the sorry attempt at stepped-up public education is a real solution, there is a good chance people...

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Opera's bamboo homes in doubt

Craft of building the temporary structures needs new learners

Wearing rubber gloves to protect their hands, their bodies glistening with sweat under a blazing sun, bamboo workers...

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Woman, 75, killed by scaffolding

A 75-year-old grandmother was killed yesterday when a two-metre bamboo pole fell from scaffolding outside a 23-storey building in Chai Wan.

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Building site blaze

Workers had to be evacuated to safety from the Laguna Verde phase four construction site in Hunghom when a fire broke out in scaffolding.

5:09AM

Mercy mission

Rescuers tend to Wai Hon-ming, 36, who fell from scaffolding on the 14th floor of a building yesterday but was saved by a metal structure six storeys down.

Mr Wai, was last night...

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Suspect in stand-off

A suspected burglar, 37, surrendered after a nine-hour stand-off on scaffolding outside a 10th-floor flat in Ho King Building, On Ning Road, Yuen Long.

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Woes linger

A section of Gilman Street, Central was still closed to traffic last night after the collapse of 15-storey-high scaffolding from the China Insurance Group Building.

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