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Adventures in East Asia
Impressive Bamboo Scaffolding Tower in Hong Kong
31 December, 2009Thursday I mentioned my early "appreciation" of Hong Kong's bamboo scaffolders earlier in the year, and so was equally amazed at the scale of the use of this renewable material on a few tower blocks in my local town Tai Po.
Clad around the surface of what looks like a forty-storey tower block must be the mother of all bamboo scaffolding. I know nothing about construction but my guess is the structure facilitates workers to carry out light exterior work to the building.
Perhaps those platform outcrops extending every ten floors or so are there to catch any fallen workers.
This entry posted in : Culture. Hong Kong.
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