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Hemp House Becomes South Africa’s Most Sustainable Building
June 29, 2011 – South Africa has tapped into the eco-mine of sustainable building material: hemp. Tony Budden, an avid hemp advocate in South Africa, has been on the hemp soapbox for years—the versatile superplant can be converted into countless materials, including paper, textiles, biodegradable plastics, and fuel. Budden paired up with Dutch architect Erwin…
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From Concrete to Hempcrete
September 15, 2010 – “It’s nothing new,” says Greg Flavell of Tradical Hempcrete, the hemp-based building product from his company, Hemp Technologies. Yet for most Americans, the material is just that. Flavell and David Madera, his partner at HT, which is based in Asheville, North Carolina, see hemp as the way of the future. “It…
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Hemp: The Construction Plant
January 23, 2010 – Bath,U.K. – The director of the UK’S Building Research Establishment Centre for Innovative Construction Materials at the University of Bath recently started a £740,000 project, funded by the UK government and the construction industry, to study and develop the material’s use in building. The research builds on foundations laid more than…
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The House that Hemp Built
July 16th, 2009 – Archial Architects recently unveiled a house made from a combination of hemp and a lime-based binding agent. The innovative design combines the industrial strength fibers of the hemp plant with a binding agent to create what has been dubbed “hempcrete.” Among the benefits of using hempcrete in housing construction is the…
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UK may be baling up greenhouse gas emissions with Hemp
June 9th, 2009 – BELLEVILLE, Canada – He’s no expert on the Canadian scene, but a UK civil engineer says that with strong buy-in from the British government, the UK will see an increase in the use of crop-based building materials as it works to reduce its carbon emissions. Professor Peter Walker, a director and…