Hello ELF!
We keep coming across #ELF_in_Europe who we've never seen before and don't know us either. If we're going to convince #SuperJuniorDnE to come here, they need to be able to see there are lots of us in one place. So if you see this, please RT.
It’s understood that Democratic Alliance chair Liu Shing-lei has been “invited for a meeting” by the Hong Kong Police National Security Department.
The planned press conference on “high-rise maintenance policy,” led by Liu, was abruptly cancelled after organizers said a government department requested it be called off.
3/ • Were unqualified materials used? Are there regulatory gaps?
He calls for an evidence-based investigation, not a premature “death sentence” on bamboo scaffolding.
2/ He notes:
• Bamboo itself isn’t highly flammable
• What failed were the nylon ties, netting & foam window panels
• The façade scaffold stayed intact even after hours of burning
• The real questions are: Why was smoke drawn indoors?
1/ Former Hong Kong Financial Secretary John Tsang (曾俊華), who studied architecture at MIT, commented on the Hong Kong fire, urging people not to jump to conclusions and blame bamboo scaffolding.
(3/3) Hong Kong has used bamboo scaffolding for decades because it’s lightweight, highly flexible in strong winds, easy to assemble on irregular building façades, and extremely cost-effective.
The scaffold itself wasn’t the issue here. The netting material was.
(2/3) Bamboo is flammable, but not in a way that makes it spontaneously “burst into flames”. It ignites around ~300°C, and treated construction bamboo is designed to slow ignition and flame spread. Under proper standards, it shouldn’t cause the rapid spread seen in this incident.
(1/3) Regarding the Hong Kong fire: CNN quoted PolyU’s Prof. Huang saying bamboo is flammable, implying the bamboo scaffold was the main driver.
But multiple clips show the netting and wrap igniting, not the scaffold; most bamboo poles remained intact.
(11/11) What this incident revealed were deficiencies in the fire performance of the netting materials and gaps in construction-site supervision, not inherent faults in the bamboo scaffold system itself.
(10/11) While metal is non-combustible, it conducts heat rapidly and its yield strength drops significantly at around 500–600°C, making it susceptible to deformation or buckling in fire conditions.
(1/11) I oppose any hasty government move to abandon bamboo scaffolding, a proven, resilient, and cost-effective engineering system that has served Hong Kong’s high-rise and complex urban environment for decades. #HongKongFire
And here is why:
‼️ CALLING ALL EUROPE ELF ‼️
MISSION: SUJU IN EUROPE! 🇪🇺
Let's bring SS 10 over here! 🔥
Let's stop complaining and start ACTING! 🫵
Reply to this post if you're prepared to help me tweeting at the promoters! Let's annoy them!
Let's do what we can!
#SUPERJUNIOR#SuperShow10