A North Carolina company, staffed with former engineers from SpaceX, hopes to win space billionaire Elon Musk’s XPrize with carbon-sequestering oriented strand board (OSB) and structural timber made from hemp.

A prototype hemp sleeper cabin, created as part of a challenge to create small, fire-resistant healthy emergency housing, will be on display at an open house Oct. 2 on the site of one of Colorado’s first licensed industrial hemp farms.

Industry experts in the emerging industrial hemp building industry gathered online in early September to raise money to submit hemp building materials for acceptance into U.S. building codes.

Belgian hemp block maker IsoHemp has opened a new factory which will increase the company’s production to 5 million blocks per year from 1 million, the company said. The new $5.9 million factory on 2 hectares is meeting a growing demand for hemp blocks for both renovation and new construction.

When the world came together and signed the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, we witnessed almost 200 countries set their vision towards the goal of limiting global temperature, keeping it below the catastrophic 2°C tipping point.

Integrating hemp into building products is a boon to the environment. But what if hemp could be used to push sustainability even further?

During my time in Europe I’ve ended up working on three Hempcrete builds for Graham Durrant of Hemp-lime Spray. Graham has been very kind in not only giving me a job, but also always really took the time to really teach me the building science behind the material.

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.

A few thoughts on using hempcrete in the conservation and renovation of solid wall buildings.

A movement to create low-cost mini-housing in the state of California may be the golden opportunity hemp building needs to enter the public consciousness, one builder and startup founder believes.

Feeling inspiration being planted is an invigorating feedback loop. I am very fortunate to have had a role in the dawning awareness of the solid reality of a healthy, beautiful, affordable house.

The pyramids are still standing, we can make toxin free bricks with hemp that will stand generations, 500 mile per hour winds and 9.2 earthquakes. This means homes can be passed down. Indigenous people will no longer be robbed of the opportunity of inheritance.

The good news is in 2021, working in hemp building in the United States is more a possibility than at any point in the past.

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Three pioneering companies in the emerging U.S. hemp-building industry will collaborate this spring on two projects that will use multiple hemp building techniques.