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Show Season Ecobuild 2017 With a busier-than-ever year ahead of us, UK Hempcrete is currently in the thick of the show season. If you missed us at ASBP ‘Healthy Buildings’ conference, and Build It Live North West, catch us at Ecobuild (7-9 March). We’ll be casting hempcrete into a timber frame and showing our pre-cast […]
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 […]
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