In a combination of luck and excellent design, none of the Asheville, NC hemp houses Timothy Callahan built between 2009-2021 were damaged by Hurricane Helene. He now concludes that building with hemp is every bit as good in extreme rain and humidity as he suspected it would be.

Last summer, Zachery Popp found out his Wisconsin warehouse/workshop was burning down after a late-night alert from neighbors.

“My wife and I drove out there as quickly as we could,” Popp told HempBuild Mag.” And, yeah, the building was basically fully collapsed at that point.”

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Jerome, Idaho-based Hempitecture, Inc. an $8.4 million grant as part of the department’s  Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC). The award is part of $428 million for 14 projects to accelerate domestic clean energy manufacturing in 15 coal communities across the United States, the company announced.

US Hemp Building Association is a membership organization dedicated to support and advocate for hemp building professionals, projects, and materials in the United States.

We are organized by a 9-member Volunteer Board of Directors who serve for 2-year terms. Board members serve on USHBA and our sister 501(c) 3 non-profit organization, the US Hemp Building Foundation.

The founder at southwestern Colorado’s Kosmos Stargazing Resort wants you to imagine gazing at the stars from your private viewing dome attached to a luxurious, healthy villa – made of hempcrete.

New laws regarding the legalization of hemp in Japan, and new coalitions with Thailand, are opening up possibilities for the hemp industry for medicinal and industrial uses in both Asian countries.

New 2024 US residential building codes for hemplime (“hempcrete”) will be explained by experts at a special low-cost in-person event for architects, builders and developers in San Marcos, TX in October.

New architectural plans for three hempcrete ADU designs were released this week by a Carolinas-based team who say their multi-year experience designing and building hemp-lime homes can boost success for those who want to build with hempcrete.

The US Environmental Protection Agency awarded almost $6.2M to a Nashville-based hemp-building nonprofit organization as part of a $160 million package of grants designed to reduce embodied greenhouse gas emissions in construction materials and projects.

Idaho-based Hempitecture, Inc. are the recipients of a $1.1 M grant from the state of New York to develop and manufacture innovative bio-based insulation products using regionally grown industrial hemp fibers, the office of Gov. Kathy Hochul announced.

US Army-funded researchers in Pennsylvania achieved a one-hour fire resistance rating for a spray-applied hemplime (“hempcrete”) wall test panel in early July, moving hempcrete closer to acceptance as a US building material.

US Hemp Building Association members at the Members Online Event June 15 voted for the top Hemp House built in the past year.

Building with hemp-lime (“hempcrete”) is about to get a visibility boost in popular culture after international clothing giant Patagonia completed filming a new short film that shines the spotlight on the hempcrete home-building of the Lower Sioux in Morton, MN.

Commercial and residential architects will be able to more easily design for US buildings using hemp-lime (hempcrete) thanks to new technical resources released this week through the US Hemp Building Association.

Imagine one day having the possibility of building a home on Maui using locally grown hemp. As a construction product, hemp has extraordinary qualities. Mixed with lime, water and volcanic minerals to create hempcrete, this eco-friendly building material is not only fire, mold and termite resistant, it’s also a non-toxic, sound insulating, energy efficient product which absorbs carbon dioxide from the air.

Hemp could become a key tool in the fight against climate change.

“Beyond my wildest dreams,” is how Cameron McIntosh described the fruits of his decision with his wife three years ago to license and distribute the French EREASY spray-applied hemp-lime application system. 

The Trinidad, CA-based Indigenous Habitat Institute (IHI) will use grant awards of close to $630,000 to build the supply chain for hemp-lime tribal housing and start a workforce training program for a hemp-lime (“hempcrete”) panel factory, the organization announced.

Have you built a US hempcrete home in the past year? The US Hemp Building Association is seeking submissions for the Best New Hemp Building 2023-24 Contest.

Hemp building materials will return to the National Mall in Washington DC in June where US Hemp Building Association will be exhibiting in the 4th annual Innovative Housing Showcase 2024.