HONG KONG — Hong Kong residents, construction professionals and former senior officials are pushing back against the idea that bamboo scaffolding was a main reason flames spread so quickly in the city ...

Many of Asia’s biggest cities owe their skylines to long bamboo poles that allow construction workers to climb to great heights. This type of scaffolding has been used for centuries in places like ...

The traditional art of erecting bamboo scaffolding has lived up to the building industry's expectations despite the advent of the steel age. Industry veterans now want greater public recognition of ...

Bamboo scaffolding, a millennia-old tradition used in the construction work of buildings in Hong Kong, is now under scrutiny following a massive fire that led to the deaths of 55 people, left several ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — The Hong Kong residential towers engulfed by smoke and flames on Wednesday were surrounded by an ancient construction material familiar to anyone who’s spent time in the one of the ...

When Daisy Pak decided she wanted to become a bamboo scaffolder, she had to overcome a fear of heights. The 32-year-old did so, little by little, and developed a passion for working with a material ...

Balanced on swaying poles, a trio of scaffolders in Hong Kong cling to a Tinkertoy-like construction of bamboo sticks. They joke and curse, apparently ignoring that fact that they are perched some ...

New Delhi: Bamboo scaffolding has been used in construction work for centuries, but it is the recent fire at a housing estate in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district that has brought it into the limelight. The ...