Hempcrete house

Imagine building your dream home with a material that's not only eco-friendly but also provides superior insulation, longevity, and comfort. Enter hempcrete, an amazing building material that’s making waves in sustainable construction. If you've never heard of hempcrete, you're in for a treat! This guide will introduce you to the benefits of using hempcrete for your new home or renovation/addition and why it’s worth considering.

Take a deeper look at three hemp homes built this summer in Texas, Colorado and Michigan.

Sarah Corbet and David Bruce's owner-built home in Central Victoria made with sustainable and durable hempcrete.

"Hempcrete is the eco-friendly building material of the future". If you’ve been following for a while, you’ve probably heard or read something of the likes.

Professor Tom Woolley from Rachel Bevan Architects explains what hempcrete is, how it is mixed and applied, and what the pros and cons of using it are. Interview with Tom Woolley Tom became interested in environmental issues in the 1980's after doing a lot of work with community groups. In the 90's he worked on producing the “Green […]

Hempcrete is a bio-composite material that contains a mixtures of hemp, hurds and lime. Like other plant products, hemp absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it grows, retaining the carbon and releasing the oxygen. Hemp structures date back to roman times and have a lower carbon footprint than many materials. But what are the pros and cons of this building material?

Australian hempcrete builder Will Brain walks you through a brand new hempcrete home with majestic tower in Scotland.

Sarah Corbet and David Bruce's owner-built home in Central Victoria made with sustainable and durable hempcrete.

It was important to create a process that makes hemp building accessible to the regular building industry .

Hemp ‘shiv’, which is the inner woody core of industrial hemp plants, are cut into short lengths and mixed with a binder. This is primarily made up of hydraulic lime which is combined with water. When mixed it becomes porridge like in consistency, and is ready to place into the formwork to form monolithic walls of the house, both interior and exterior. Mixing only takes a couple of minutes (with the right hardware), and once the hempcrete has been placed, it is firm within an hour, solid…