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.
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:
(1/11) 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: