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:

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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:
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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?