Temporary Steel: The Invisible Rental Economy of Scaffolding

Before a skyscraper can rise into the clouds, it must be surrounded by a chaotic, temporary exoskeleton of steel pipes and wooden planks. We look at the glass and concrete, completely ignoring the multi-billion-dollar scaffolding industry that makes vertical construction physically possible. This B2B rental economy is a fiercely guarded oligopoly. Construction firms rarely own the millions of st...