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Free food, and accommodation in the beautiful French Alps in exchange for your work casting hempcrete in a new build Alpine chalet. Summer’s (nearly) here… and the hempcrete season has begun! We’re posting this for some clients of ours who are self-building a timber frame and hempcrete chalet near Chamonix in the French Alps. They […]
Part 2 of our blog post comparing natural and synthetic insulation materials… “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us…” Winston Churchill (1874-1965) In Part 1 of this blog article I looked at the problems inherent in trying to reduce carbon emissions in the built environment by using huge amounts of synthetic materials to insulate […]
Hemp-LimeConstruct director Alex Sparrow has recently written an informative article full of key “dos and don’ts” for the first time hempcrete builder. The article appears in the recently resurrected quarterly The Last Straw: International Journal of Straw Bale and Natural Building. Part 1 of Alex’s article appeared in the July 2014 issue (TLS64) and the […]
We’ve put together a Hempcrete Information video playlist on our You Tube Channel to help share quality information about hempcrete, and we’re adding to it all the time. We’ll be flagging up key videos on the blog over the coming months Here’s a taster – HLC’s most recent video:
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us…” said Winston Churchill (1874-1965), who died 50 years ago this this week. This oft-quoted comment on architecture resonates today as much it ever did. With the emphasis today on building (and upgrading our existing buildings) to meet standards of energy performance – in both construction and use […]
NATURAL BUILDING LIVE, NEC 9-12 October 2014 Hempcrete, along with other natural building materials, proved a major attraction at the Grand Designs Live Show at the NEC, Birmingham in October 2014. Hemp-LimeConstruct has been involved with the show for the last 4 years, helping to promote hempcrete by demonstrating it, along with other natural building […]
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