In the foothills of Colorado this summer, owners welcomed the public to an open house for a new homey hempcrete cottage and garage constructed with pre-assembled hemp-lime panels.

Members of the US Hemp Building Association voted for the best hemp home built in the past year. Five gorgeous hemp homes competed in the contest.

A big part of my intention is to create home designs that are timeless and elegant, yet practical and healthy for the occupants and the planet.

Burnt, charred wood is historically used as a wood protection measure on the exterior of buildings. It is a technique usually attributed to the Japanese, called Sugi Ban, which we wanted to adapt for hemp construction, by inserting charcoal into the mixture and/or burning the hemp straw itself.

We’d like to introduce you to three new hempcrete builds in Texas, Colorado and Michigan. All three projects began, or were completed, in 2022 and the builders/subcontractors are already starting new projects.

One of the biggest motivations in using hemp and lime as a construction material was our interest in building “net zero” or “carbon-negative” or “climate-positive” or “carbon-neutral”– there are a lot of different terms being used, ultimately, it is about achieving a balance between the carbon emitted into the atmosphere, and the carbon removed from it.

How Intrigued would you be to receive an invitation to visit a Hemp home on the side of a mountain in the Emerald Triangle of California? For me it was too tempting to resist!

Architect, CEO and designer Monika Brümmer is a biomaterials designer and builder and founder of a hemp brick company based in Granada, Spain.

Join Lillian “Lilibet” Clarke as she travels the globe visiting some of the world’s most interesting hempcrete buildings.

The DIY Hex Hemple was developed for a client in Hawaii where the regulations allowed for a structure under 120 sq. ft. to be built without building department approval.

One of the world’s most influential architecture firms is proposing using carbon-sequestering hemp as a vital part of the international built environment of the future.

The U.S. Department of Energy is supporting the extensive study of hemp-fiber insulation in a research and development program for entrepreneurs at the Tennessee-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

That new-construction-smell might actually be a slurry of chemicals being released from the particle board used in subfloors and walls. The air might also be heavy with guilt about using valuable and slow-growing trees in your building projects.

Hempcrete construction brings along a private good through the lower operations cost of healthy houses, and a public good through a lower carbon footprint.

What if you didn’t have to wait 80+ years for an oak tree to grow large enough to be felled? A new innovation in the emerging hemp industry seeks to replace traditional hardwood with a woody product that grows in just a few months.

In Bozeman, Mont., where winter often lasts into late spring, homeowners Mary and Richard Elston chose two off-the-shelf hemp building materials to create 12-inch highly insulated walls in their new 2,900 sq. foot home outside of town.

A hempcrete residential remodel of a blighted balloon-frame house in New Castle, PA is providing proof-of-concept for local farmers that there exists a realistic outlet for fiber industrial hemp in Pennsylvania.