Hempcrete, a material made from the versatile hemp plant, presents a new approach to building sustainable constructions.
Show Season Ecobuild 2017 With a busier-than-ever year ahead of us, UK Hempcrete is currently in the thick of the show season. If you missed us at ASBP ‘Healthy Buildings’ conference, and Build It Live North West, catch us at Ecobuild (7-9 March). We’ll be casting hempcrete into a timber frame and showing our pre-cast
Push Design was able to build a great home made from hemp walls that is sizable but incredibly light on the environment, energy usage, and total cost.
"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.
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This is a complete digital download PDF guide to building with hempcrete . After reading this you will have the knowledge to start building with hempcrete, regardless of current skill level. *Note: This guide is primarily focused on how to build with hempcrete using the cast in place method, but there is a lot of background info and general best practices that apply to all areas of hempcrete. At time of purchase you will be prompted to download and/or print this E-book How To Guide. This purchase is non-refundable. Hempcrete is made from hemp, lime, and water. Why hempcrete? Hempcrete is a non-toxic, highly insulate, mold free, carbon negative material that is just now starting to be used to build homes in the US. Homeland Hempcrete is based out of Bismarck North Dakota and has been building with hempcrete for several years. This guide is a fun way for us to start to spread the message about hempcrete and its potential. We also offer DIY kits and raw materials when your ready to get your hands on the material, check out our page for more info!
Australian hempcrete builder Will Brain walks you through a brand new hempcrete home with majestic tower in Scotland.
A "modern" Straw Bale home just outside of Sacramento, California. http://images01.olx.com/ui/16/38/56/1318691036_106683256_1-Pictures-of--Lovely-custom-straw-bale-home-Euro-Gourmet-style-24-acres.jpg Building a house out of straw may seem, at first, like a foolish idea. However, over the past couple of decades, there has been a steady increase in Straw Bale homes being built, and with it has come better research showing the wisdom of this ancient building material. I am not going to get into the details of construction today. I just want to show the beauty of these energy efficient homes. A modern Straw Bale home under construction. http://www.nachi.org/images10-2/windows-in-straw-bale.jpg http://www.buildingwithawareness.com/pictures%202008/straw-bale-home-hybrid-house-glow.jpg http://www.syncronos.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/straw-bale-house-and-green-building-picture.jpg A modern Staw Bale home with Passive Solar and Solar Photovoltaic design. http://www.buildingwithawareness.com/pictures%202008/entry%20straw%20bale%20house.jpg A Straw Bale "Farmhouse". http://www.syncronos.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/straw-bale-house-and-green-building-picture.jpg Unusual Straw Bale home at the Lama Foundation in Taos, New Mexico http://leicesterexchanges.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/lama-foundation-21.jpg A small, Straw Bale, second "home" in a Berkeley, California backyard. http://blog.whatsnexthomes.com/2011/07/23/live-like-one-of-the-three-little-pigs.aspx A Straw Bale mountain home. http://www.naturalhomeandgarden.com/uploadedImages/articles/daily/2008/2/EarthFlowDesignWorks-straw-bale-house.jpg Very unique Straw Bale home in Pembrokshire, UK http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/straw-homes-461209 A Straw Bale home in Argentina. http://naturalbuild.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/el-trebol-del-monte-yacanto-cordoba-argentina/ A Straw Bale home with Passive Solar design in New Zealand. http://www.builditgreen.co.za/Portals/0/Images/straw%20bale%20house%20finished.jpg The first Straw Bale home in New Zealand. http://www.ecobob.co.nz/EcoProperty/PropertyPhotoTour.aspx?propertyId=1265&imageIndex=4 Exterior and Interior of Straw Bale home in Oakland, California. http://www.thedailygreen.com/cm/thedailygreen/images/1-oakland-straw-home2.jpg Interior of Staw Bale homes can be beautiful! http://images.morris.com/images/cjonline/mdControlled/cms/2007/12/29/229851509.jpg The interior of the Straw Bale home shown at the very top of this article. http://images01.olx.com/ui/16/38/56/1318691036_106683256_1-Pictures-of--Lovely-custom-straw-bale-home-Euro-Gourmet-style-24-acres.jpg Unique floor and ceiling details in the Straw Bale home. http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/apr2_strawbal3.jpg This couple built their Straw Bale home... one thing I love about these structures. http://www.designforward.net/news_diary.jpg Fine finished interior of a Straw Bale home. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1244/921390003_d42bd63944.jpg Non-conventional is a huge selling point with Straw Bale homes... http://0.tqn.com/d/create/1/0/3/X/1/-/IMG-1549.jpg ...but many Straw Bale builders choose more traditional designs. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1342/922243328_3122ad066a.jpg Deep inset windows are typical with Straw Bale homes. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/79/266169446_af3e9e112d.jpg Exquisite interior of a Straw Bale home in San Luis Obispo, California http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/straw-homes-461209
Insulating your floor slab has never been so easy and fast with IsoHemp hemp blocks. Excellent support for your screed.
In the age of the internet, I am still a huge believer in the humble natural building book. I can be drawn much deeper into a book, and stay much more focused. On our Hartwyn internship builds, I bring along my bookshelf for the interns to paw over, it’s really lovely to see! So here, I shall list my favorite natural building books. I suspect this will be a work in progress as more come out (I’m eager to get my hands...
A modern cabin in Chriby, Czech Republic, has been designed with hempcrete walls and a green roof.
Well, it has been a rainy, rainy winter in Northland but because of our large eaves we are protected from the rain on all sides and we were able to keep working. The only problem was that Covid 19 arrived and stopped our hempcrete workshops cold. With no one able to come and help, I continued the building solo, making slow progress by mixing up around 200 liters of hemp and lime at a time and making steady headway on the exterior walls that will require roughly 50 cubic meters! Hempcrete work can be quite meditative, especially when working in an area that is easy to access and uncomplicated. The process of opening bags, starting the mixer, adding water, carrying buckets, pouring, spreading and lightly tamping the hempcrete is easy to do whilst listening to audiobooks or podcasts, and the time really flew by. The work is now beginning on the interior walls, which differ from the exterior walls in that they are only 200mm thick – 90mm framing and 55mm of hemp on each side. These walls will have thermal mass and will also act as moisture sinks, regulating the temperature and humidity of the house - storing heat from the day for overnight, and absorbing the moisture we create and expelling it when humidity drops. You can really see why they say these natural houses ‘breathe’. One of our ethos for the house was for it to be able to breathe. The materials for each system in our house have been chosen for their moisture permeable properties: for the flooring substrate we’ve used 20mm thick Maglok dragonboard flooring, which is made from glass reinforced Magnesium Oxide – a strong, non-toxic, completely breathable material that is also fire and heat proof, plus doesn’t swell or distort when wet. Apparently, they offer a squeak-free guarantee that the floor substrate will not creak either! Under the floor we have used Terra Lana
Use this simple 3 ingredient recipe for how to mix hempcrete, including an infographic with instructions on how to work with hempcrete.
Hempcrete is one that successfully passed as an alternative building material. It performs in an environmentally friendly manner through its whole
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High permeability and high strength lime plaster for hemp block architecture that protects and yields long-term generational results.
Hempcrete was first developed in France as a method of adding thermal performance to medieval timber frame buildings, whilst allowing the historic building fabric to continue working in the way it was intended to. Hempcrete is a vapour permeable material, the hemp shiv is a hard cellulose material very similar to timber, and so it
Tav Group built Ein Hod, an eco-minded home for artists, using hempcrete in Israel.
A modern cabin in Chriby, Czech Republic, has been designed with hempcrete walls and a green roof.
Hempcrete is completely natural and free from synthetic, fossil fuel based materials. Because hempcrete is naturally fire-retardant and pest-resistant (nothing eats lime!) there is no need to add chemicals to ensure its performance in these areas (as is usually the case with lightweight synthetic insulation materials). Chemicals added to conventional insulation materials often contain Volatile
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Hemp in general is and shall help to create a more sustainable environment for our world.
Build with hemp blocks, an insulating and efficient envelope for all types of construction systems.
