Field notes · 21 January 2026
Timing site walks around Hong Kong pour days
How pour schedules and refuge-floor storage change what a progress pack can honestly show.
Concrete pour days rearrange access across entire floors. Arriving without checking the pour calendar means a construction progress dashboard full of “no access” rows that could have been avoided by shifting the walk twenty-four hours. We ask for the pour plan during kick-off and hold a backup morning when the site is volatile.
Refuge floors used as temporary storage create another distortion. Photographs can look like unfinished interiors when the finishes are simply buried under stacked frames. Our site reporting captions call out storage overlays so remote readers do not misread the stage of works.
If a pour slips after we have walked, we do not silently update photographs from an older visit. The pack date stays honest; a short addendum describes what changed if the meeting still needs the note.