HempBuild Magazine: News About the Hemp Building Industry
New Hemp Building Directory 2024 Features 700 Companies
If you're interested in building with hemp, you'll find everything you need in one convenient place: Hemp and lime suppliers, green builders, architects, engineers, plasterers and equipment are all here.
Hemp Building Association Announces Special Election for 2 Board Members
The US Hemp Building Association this week announced a call for candidates for a special board election for two new at-large members to join the trade association’s board of directors.
Alexandros Tsamis: Industry has yet to fully realize the potential of natural materials
We are developing next-generation construction materials derived from renewable resources. One such very prominent resource is hemp. Hemp offers a great opportunity to develop new local economies around it that span the agriculture, processing, manufacturing, and construction sectors
Steve Allin: Innovations, Modular Systems Will Accelerate Hemp Building Worldwide
INTERVIEW: An author, teacher and consultant on ecological building, Steve Allin has been building with hemp and promoting hemp’s use in construction all over the world for more than 20 years.
Woman-Owned X-Hemp Raises $1M via Crowdfunding
A group of Tasmanian women hemp farmers ran a crowdfunding campaign this August raising over 1.5 million Australian dollars (about $1 M USD) from 900 investors.
Opinion: Hempcrete 3D Rumors Zip Around the Web
A proverb says a lie can travel half way around the world before the Truth gets its trousers on. This is certainly more true in the internet age, especially with aggregated news gathering.
Lower Sioux to Open Hempcrete Building Facility
When construction is complete next April, the Lower Sioux — also known as part of the Mdewakanton Band of Dakota — will have a 20,000-square-foot manufacturing campus that will allow them to pioneer a green experiment, the first of its kind in the United States.
Trade Association Announces Building Code and Standard Developments
The US Hemp Building Association, trade association for the hemp building industry, announced upcoming developments for 2024, including hemp-lime (“hempcrete”) listed in US building codes, removing barriers for commercial architects and designers and helping hemp processors attain a “building grade” hemp spec.
How Insulation can be Regenerative
Since the two hemp homes at Wally Farm have been completed, I have been spending some time thinking about how to illustrate the relevance of having used hemp lime (which is now completely invisible like most insulation products are) and how to scale up the conversation from two tiny homes to greater impact.
Hempcrete is a Winner Against Historic Floods
Once again hemp-lime is proving to be a resilient material, this time in a flood zone. Homeowner Gayle Killen says the remediation she has done to her historic home in Ellicott City, Maryland, has saved the house from flood damage where others have not been so lucky.
Hemp Takes Center Stage at Natural Building Conference
Hemp building materials took a prominent place at the Rocky Mountain Natural Building Conference Oct. 20-22. Hemp took the podium along with cob, straw bale, passive house, natural plaster and other natural building technologies, at the Natural Building Alliance's 20th anniversary conference.
Amsterdam Hemp Building Symposium Gathers Worldwide Experts
In October, I joined a swarm of fanatics, innovators and curious observers, as they descended on Kanteen 25 in the northern outskirts of Amsterdam, Netherlands. One thing was on everyones’ mind at the 11th International Hemp Building symposium -- INDUSTRIAL HEMP and most importantly, how is it altering the future of construction?
Trades Workers Learn Hemp Building at Chicago Certification Workshop
Chicago union carpenters and bricklayers got an exposure to hemp-lime materials in a four-day certification workshop led by a Canadian hemp block maker this week.
In Memoriam: Wolf Jordan, Belgian Hemp-Building Pioneer
Wolf Jordan, who transitioned from the world of traditional construction to become a fierce proponent of natural building solutions, and who inspired ecologically-minded builders the world over, has died at age 75.
Native 'Hempsters' Seek to Build Intertribal Cooperative
A global enterprise based in Spain may seem an unlikely role model for a fledging American Indian initiative. But inspired by its success, Winona’s Hemp and Heritage Farm in Anishinaabeg territory is sowing the start of an intertribal cooperative consortium.
IRC Commentary Submitted to International Code Council
The Hemp Building Institute, in partnership with the US Hemp Building Association, completed the final steps to include hemp-lime in the US residential building codes this summer.
Becoming a HempBLOCK Master Builder: My Experience
In a groundbreaking move this August, a Euro-based hemp block company began its first US construction project in Wildwood, GA. HempBLOCK USA marked dual milestones by commencing its first build and hosting the first HempBLOCK Master Builder training program in the United States.
Profile: Henrik Pauly, head of Germany's Hanfingenieur
Meet Henrik Pauly, head of the Hanfingenieur team: one of the only hemp-building teams in Germany.
Amsterdam Hemp Building Symposium to Feature Carbon, Science, Tech
Carbon credits and how they relate to the hemp construction sector will be featured during this year’s International Hemp Building Symposium, set for Amsterdam Oct. 10-11.
CO Modular Home Features Hemp Insulation
A Colorado startup modular home company unveiled a prototype last month that features HempWool batt insulation.