A UK building contractor said it has completed the last of 25 homes built from hempcrete panels in one of the country’s biggest sustainable residential development projects to date. The …
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By Steve Allin When I first got involved with attempting to set up an industrial hemp industry in Ireland I spent a lot of time with my colleague Terry Barman …
Large quantities, fast methods needed for hempcrete to meet promise in housing Read More »
Pre-fabricated hemp building solutions will get special attention at this year’s 10th edition of the International Hemp Building Symposium, set for Lacapelle Marival, France, Oct. 11-12, 2022. “We are showcasing solutions that …
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Two South African companies say they will put the finishing touches on a seven-story building expansion constructed with hemp blocks later this year. Hemporium and Afrimat Hemp, both of Cape …
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Hempcrete failed to surpass petrochemical-based foams in insulation performance but can still be a viable replacement for traditional construction materials in sustainable “net-zero” buildings, experiments carried out at Kansas State …
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By Steve Allin If the COVID-19 pandemic was, as U.N Secretary-General Antonio António Guterres said, “like an X-ray revealing fractures in the fragile skeleton of the societies we have built,” …
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Dun Agro Hemp Group, Inc., the American corporation of the leading Dutch hemp company, said it will set up North American headquarters and build its first U.S.-based processing facilities in …
Dun Agro will set up advanced, large-scale hemp processing facilities in Indiana Read More »
Delegates to this year’s International Hemp Building Symposium can see demonstrations of hemp decortication technology and hempcrete spraying during the 10th edition of the event, to be held in Lacapelle …
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A North Dakota company has developed a building system based on inter-connecting pre-fabricated panels for the construction of single-story homes. Homeland Hempcrete of Bismarck has entered into a proof-of-concept phase …
Modular system offers framed hempcrete panels for faster builds Read More »
Current methods for measuring the energy performance of building materials are flawed, and give a false representation of overall performance, according to a recently released position paper by the International …
Hemp building association calls for overhaul of performance criteria Read More »
