Hempcrete House. Hempire.mov. Hempire Renovation 2012.mov. Hemp-Limecrete. Hemp catching on with NW farmers. Forget potatoes, wheat or barley... hemp is the newest crop gracing the fields of the north west.
About a dozen farmers in County Londonderry have started to grow the plant - a variety of cannabis - for its non-intoxicating uses. The material is primarily used in the building industry, but can be found in everything from pharmaceuticals to food. Robert Moore grows 300 acres of hemp at his farm at Ballougry outside Derry. "I'm licensed from the department of health and from the police, and before anybody starts coming up to pinch some, you could smoke it from now to Christmas and it wouldn't give you any sort of charge. "There is no drug value in it all," he said.
Mr Moore said that hemp as a crop has "huge potential". "You can use the fibre as roof insulation or wall insulation, and it's a very environmentally-friendly product. "I think there are over 2,000 different uses - I even saw hemp oil when I was at the Balmoral Show last week. " Hemp-lime architecture — HEMP ARCHITECTURE. Prefabricated Lime/Hemp Technology. High Scientist: Hempcrete. You’ve heard of concrete, well this is hempcrete.
Hempcrete claims to be an excellent sustainable natural insulator made from 3 basic components: water, lime and hemp. As hempcrete cures it draws carbon dioxide out of the air, which after a few decades turns the hemp into stone. When I finally build my own home, I will definitely be looking at this “green” building material! About Hempcrete Combine water, hemp and lime to create hempcrete (sometimes with a touch of cement or quick-set gypsum). One of the photos above claims: “As it cures, it draws carbon dioxide from the air and petrifies the [hemp] cellulose into stone.
Hempcrete is currently being used in Europe for some large projects such as the London Science Museum storage facility in Wroughton, Wiltshire, England. A Little About Concrete In contrast to hempcrete, concrete is made using aggregate, cement and water. Nology- THE FIRST BETTER THAN ZERO CARBON PREFABRICATED PANEL SOLUTION IS LAUNCHED. Developers of Tradical®Hemcrete®, the unique and highly sustainable lime-hemp building product that locks up CO2, are partnering with ModCell Limited, providers of the UK’s leading renewable prefabricated cladding system.
Together, they have created a new and innovative carbon negative building product - ModCell Hemp. ModCell Hemp is set to make a huge impact on the future of sustainable building and construction. It is based on ModCell’s existing offsite-manufactured system, which uses modern methods of construction to create wall panels with straw bale infill. The system is now available with Tradical®Hemcrete® as the filling for the timber-framed ModCell panels. The Hemp panels will typically measure 3m x 2m and 300mm to 500mm thick depending on what is required for each project. Hempcrete.com.au: The Australian Hempcrete Technologists. American Lime Technology Website. Client: Orwell Housing Association Project: Clay Fields (26 eco-houses) Location: Suffolk Architect: Riches Hawley Mikhail Architects Completion: 2008 Spray application of Tradical® Hemcrete® was specified for this 26 unit housing project with Orwell Housing Association.
The Clayfield project is an exemplar for transferable ecological design in social housing, with extremely low embodied CO2 in construction and low energy requirements in use. As well as having green credentials, it is cost effective to build and contemporary in design. The award winning scheme offers affordable housing with a strong environmental emphasis. Sustainable Masonry Sets Green Precedent for Social Housing For the construction of Clay Field’s, 26 new affordable homes for Orwell Housing Association in Suffolk, architects Riches Hawley Mikhail Architects wanted to combine contemporary design, sustainable construction with low energy use and innovative local materials.
Featured Products Want to know more? The Nauhuas - Why We Like Hempcrete. Home > current projects > Nauhaus prototype > hempcrete > The goal of environmentally conscious building design is to create buildings that create a healthy indoor environment while supporting a healthy outdoor environment.
After years of experience building, designing, and researching we’ve come to the conclusion that the best way to accomplish this goal is through combining cutting edge building science with what are commonly called “natural building” practices. High performance building science allows us to create buildings that use almost no energy to run, therefore reducing the size and price of the renewable energy system required to produce on site all the energy required to run the building. The natural building perspective helps us utilize natural, local, and site-harvested materials that have a very low embodied energy, therefore lowering the carbon and pollution footprint of the building during construction. Hempcrete House. Lime Technology - lime-based building products. Tradical® Hemcrete® is a bio-composite building material made from hemp shiv (the woody core of Industrial Hemp) and a lime based binder called Tradical® HB.
Tradical® Hemcrete® is made and sold in the UK by Lime Technology under licence from Lhoist. Tradical® Hemcrete® has the following properties:- Good thermal insulation Excellent thermal inertia Negative embodied carbon Easy to use Made from renewable/abundant UK materials Tradical® Hemcrete® is normally used to create the walls of new buildings, but can also be used in the refurbishment of existing buildings. Tradical® Hemcrete® has a unique combination of insulation and thermal inertia and these properties combine to create building with very stable internal environments that need very little heating or cooling (if appropriately designed and constructed).
For further information please contact our sales team on info@limetechnology.co.uk or 0845 603-1143.