These videos surprised a lot of people: bamboo does burn, but not the way social media describes it.
It doesn’t explode. It doesn’t melt. It chars slowly — similar to timber — and sometimes even stays standing.
So maybe the question isn’t:
‘Why is HK still using bamboo?’
But:
‘Why don’t we separate the performance of bamboo from the failures of safety around it?
Engineers, builders, HK folks — what do you think after seeing the videos?