Stalled work to resume as Hong Kong distributes 3,000 fire-tested scaffold nets
Construction Industry Council receives 12,000 centrally procured nets from Guangdong province, with another 38,000 expected to arrive by early February
Hong Kong’s construction industry body has begun distributing 3,000 rigorously tested scaffolding nets from a 12,000-unit shipment to 11 contractors overseeing 19 renovation sites, following the suspension of hundreds of projects after the deadly Tai Po inferno.
The Construction Industry Council (CIC) said on Thursday that it had received 12,000 centrally procured nets from Guangdong province, with the remaining 38,000 from the 50,000-unit order expected to arrive in phases by early February.
In total, the nets will supply 89 affected contractors managing 418 building projects across Hong Kong.
Executive director Albert Cheng Ting-ning said contractors could resume their stalled projects once they collected their nets at the council’s warehouse in San Tin.
“We are prioritising distribution according to the scheduled completion dates to facilitate the timely resumption of work,” Cheng said.
The new nets were produced by two qualified manufacturers in Jiangmen and Foshan, where they underwent initial flame-retardant testing. Each unit must pass a strict two-tier verification process before being deployed.