Stalled work to resume as Hong Kong distributes 3,000 fire-tested scaffold nets

Hong Kong’s construction industry body has begun distributing 3,000 rigorously tested scaffolding nets from a 12,000-unit shipment to 11 contractors overseeing 19 renovation sites, following the suspension of hundreds of projects after the deadly Tai Po inferno. The Construction Industry Council (CIC) said on Thursday that it had received 12,000 centrally procured nets from Guangdong province, with the remaining 38,000 from the 50,000-unit order expected to arrive in phases by early February. In...