BUILD YOUR HOUSE USING HEMP

Building a house from hemp is possible and has been doable for quite a while.

Designed by Steffen Welsch Architects, this house built from hempcrete is located in Melbourne, Australia.

Using Hempcrete gives a natural and sustainable element to your house. This revolutionary building material is extremely cost effective and more importantly extremely environmentally friendly.

Hempcrete is the perfect natural building material which is made from a mixture of water, hemp and a lime based binder. Hempcrete blocs are able to absorb large amounts of C02 .This incredible material made Hempcrete extremely environmentally friendly by reducing considerably our carbon footprint and being fully recyclable.

In fact, an average sized 2 bedroom house is carbon negative in its absorption of CO2 in it’s lifetime.

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