Multiple US hemp-building companies will make a big splash for around 25,000 visitors at one of the largest US construction sustainability expos and conferences later this month in Philadelphia, thanks to collaboration and the generosity of a hemp processing company and a hemp-building non-profit.

A new hemp building organization launched its website this week with a familiar face in a central leadership role.

Sergiy Kovalenkov has built a business in Ukraine and has no intention of ceasing operations during the war. In fact, he feels strongly that this is the time to double down on is efforts to support others in the hemp industry, and to work to move the Ukrainian medical cannabis initiative forward as well.

The small-but-mighty US Hemp Building Association has had an outsized impact on the emerging hemp building industry in the United States after only three years in existence.

Hemp building materials moved one step forward on the path toward certification in US building codes at a Rochester, NY hearing of the International Code Council last week.

More than two dozen speakers and hemp building experts will appear virtually at an upcoming online fundraiser and conference to raise money to certify hemp as an official building material in U.S. building codes.