Bamboo scaffolding to be ............... camcelled

[TheDevil_666]

That's just bullshit - Hong Kong will not look like Hong Kong anymore soon :-(

Yeah. It will look a lot cleaner.

[TheDevil_666]

I, for one, welcome this new change. Those bamboo scaffoldings looked so messy.

[paddylast]

The tensile strength of mild steel is 235 - 550 MPa which is around 34,000 - 80,000 PSI. Spiders' silk is something like 1 - 2 GPa, so the golden orb weavers on Lamma better watch out if this law passes.

However, scaffolding does not typically carry the loading in tension but rather in compression. So shearing, bending and buckling are the critical failure mechanisms.

That being said, I am suspicious about the way these things are tied together. They seem to be secured with black plastic ties by a shirtless uncle that may or may not have had a can of blue girl for breakfast.

It's a bit harsh having a go at their attire or whatever gets them through the day.

A couple of guys came to my place last year to set up scaffolding. Carrying the bamboo upstairs, manoeuvring it out through the room, climbing out the window and basically building a balcony within 50 minutes.

A dying breed obviously.

[Crankshaft]

Pity. It ads character to the city. One of the coolest things I saw and wanted to show to friends back home after my first trip to HK was a skyscraper surrounded by bamboo scaffolding.

[Mr.Haggis]

It's a bit harsh having a go at their attire or whatever gets them through the day.

A couple of guys came to my place last year to set up scaffolding. Carrying the bamboo upstairs, manoeuvring it out through the room, climbing out the window and basically building a balcony within 50 minutes.

A dying breed obviously.

I get what you mean, I actually like the aesthetic.
I also admire the sustainability aspect of using bamboo as a building material.

However, I don't advocate drinking on the job and neglecting basic PPE when working in a safety critical role in construction.

That being said, my main concern was with the quality control. Bamboo is not made in a factory like steel is and is also susceptible to mold and other natural inconsistencies which is a residual risk (a manageable one?).

I have had a look for some code of practice for the assembling of these things (like BD's CoP structural use of steel, concrete etc) and couldn't find anything. I didn't very hard though. It really is ostensibly a secret art.

[Zelensky2]

I get what you mean, I actually like the aesthetic.
I also admire the sustainability aspect of using bamboo as a building material.

However, I don't advocate drinking on the job and neglecting basic PPE when working in a safety critical role in construction.

That being said, my main concern was with the quality control. Bamboo is not made in a factory like steel is and is also susceptible to mold and other natural inconsistencies which is a residual risk (a manageable one?).

I have had a look for some code of practice for the assembling of these things (like BD's CoP structural use of steel, concrete etc) and couldn't find anything. I didn't very hard though. It really is ostensibly a secret art.

Being made in a factory doesn't make it 'better'. For sure there is more variability in Bamboo and less rigidity, however it's far more sustainable, much lighter, much cheaper, and much less noisy (apart from when it comes crashing down in a typhoon ;-).

And whilst it degrades in moisture once cut, so does steel funnily enough.