For the Hong Kong Fire, we built an open, centralised database to preserve all verifiable information, news reports, footage, technical analyses, contractor details, volunteer/community support records, official responses, and follow-up developments.
Hong Kong Fire: Summary of Open Documents
This matters because it was preventable. The rapid spread suggests human negligence, unsafe decisions, and systemic oversight failures, not an “accident”.
Here are the suspected cases of corner-cutting in the renovation project:
1/ I don’t often speak in my professional capacity as a Hong Kong–born, UK-chartered construction professional (MRICS, MAPM, NECReg, among others). But I need to address inaccurate reporting about bamboo scaffolding in the Hong Kong Tai Po fire.
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