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Industrial hemp will play a role in an advanced UK housing development designed to address “whole-place carbon footprint,” according to developers of the project, located on a 7.9-hectare tract in […]
The Federation of International Hemp Organizations (FIHO) and standards developer ASTM International have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on global guidance for the hemp value chain. ASTM […]
INTERVIEW: Cameron McIntosh is co-founder of Americhanvre Cast Hemp, a Pennsylvania hemp building company that is the exclusive U.S. licensee of the Baumer Ereasy Spray Applied Hempcrete system of France. […]
A Pennsylvania company will look at key performance factors for hempcrete construction after receiving a $1.9 million research and development grant from the U.S. Army. Allentown-based Americhanvre Cast Hemp said […]
Hemp is good for cleaning up soil contaminated with copper – and copper can be good for hemp, according to Greek researchers who have looked at the plant as an […]
The Federation of International Hemp Organizations (FIHO) has joined a United Nations program through which it will work to position hemp as a source of sustainable building materials. FIHO joined […]
The move towards prefabricated building components is growing as interest grows in construction based on hempcrete and hemp fibers. The trend is reflected in the program of the 11th International […]
Hemp building stakeholders in the U.S. say they are putting the finishing touches on documentation that will enshrine hempcrete as an approved building material for residential structures under the International … Hempcrete takes ‘important step’ in U.S. by entering international code Read More »
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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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A current supply crunch on hemp hurd in Europe, while a temporary inconvenience, signals a major shift forward for the hemp building sector and can...
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