High on Hemp Homes

[JohnWxy]

somebody in the past here, has spoken highly of hemp. I thought if he's still here he would enjoy this.


http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/09/hemp-houses-built-asheville/1


The mixture, "Tradical Hemcrete," has not previously been used in U.S. homes, but in 2008 it went into a community center on the Pine Ridge Reservation in Badlands, S.D., as well as a small chapel and pottery studio near Houston, says Mario Machnicki, managing director of American Lime Technology, a Chicago company that imports hemp from the United Kingdom.

Asheville's second hemp home will be finished in about six weeks, says builder Clarke Snell of the Nauhaus Institute, a non-profit group of designers, engineers, developers and others interested in sustainable urban living.

Snell says the home, which has 16-inch-thick walls, is airtight and energy-efficient. He expects it to meet rigorous Passive House Institute standards, which call for homes to use up to 90% less energy than regular ones.

"On the coldest day in winter, the body heat of 10 people should heat the home," he says. "We're basically building a European home."
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The architects:

[MineralMan]

1. Oh, yes....hemp will save us all...

[Terry in Austin]

2. Hemp rocks

Literally.

...and in that vein, thanks for giving us the big picture!

:toast: