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    Hempcrete is a building material made from hemp hurd, lime, and water that is mixed on site and cast around a timber frame. It has several advantages over other materials like concrete including being breathable to regulate humidity, naturally resistant to fire and pests without chemicals, and having high thermal insulation properties. Hempcrete also has negative carbon emissions, meaning it absorbs and stores more carbon than was emitted in its production, making it an environmentally friendly building material that can help reduce carbon footprints.

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    Hempcrete is a building material made from hemp hurd, lime, and water that is mixed on site and cast around a timber frame. It has several advantages over other materials like concrete including being breathable to regulate humidity, naturally resistant to fire and pests without chemicals, and having high thermal insulation properties. Hempcrete also has negative carbon emissions, meaning it absorbs and stores more carbon than was emitted in its production, making it an environmentally friendly building material that can help reduce carbon footprints.

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    Hempcrete is a building material made from hemp hurd, lime, and water that is mixed on site and cast around a timber frame. It has several advantages over other materials like concrete including being breathable to regulate humidity, naturally resistant to fire and pests without chemicals, and having high thermal insulation properties. Hempcrete also has negative carbon emissions, meaning it absorbs and stores more carbon than was emitted in its production, making it an environmentally friendly building material that can help reduce carbon footprints.

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    Hempcrete is a building material made from hemp hurd, lime, and water that is mixed on site and cast around a timber frame. It has several advantages over other materials like concrete including being breathable to regulate humidity, naturally resistant to fire and pests without chemicals, and having high thermal insulation properties. Hempcrete also has negative carbon emissions, meaning it absorbs and stores more carbon than was emitted in its production, making it an environmentally friendly building material that can help reduce carbon footprints.

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    Hempcrete, or “hemp-lime composite building material” to give it its proper


    name, is a mixture of hemp hurd (the woody core of the industrial hemp plant) together
    with a lime based binder. The material is wet-mixed and cast on site in shuttering
    around a timber frame, which supports the vertical load of the structure.

    2. Hempcrete is a breathable (vapor permeable) material, which is hygroscopic (it


    regulates humidity in the air by taking in water vapor and releasing it again when
    humidity levels drop). This is important both for the health of the building’s occupants
    and necessary to keep the fabric of the building in good condition. The regulation of
    humidity in the indoor environment to a healthy level (between 40-60% relative
    humidity) has been shown to inhibit the spread of viral and bacterial infections, allergic
    reactions, asthma and other respiratory conditions.

    3. Hempcrete is naturally fire, mould and pest resistant meaning that there is no
    need for potentially toxic chemicals to be added to it. This feature together with its
    vapor-permeability and hygroscopic nature means that hempcrete creates healthy living
    environments.

    4. Hempcrete has negative net carbon emissions meaning it’s a “Better-Than-Zero-


    Carbon” material. The exceptional eco-credentials of this natural sustainable material
    make using hempcrete in your project the obvious choice if you want to reduce your
    energy bills, your carbon footprint and the overall impact of your building on the
    environment. 165 kg of carbon can theoretically be absorbed and locked up by 1 cubic
    meter of hempcrete wall, which is held in the building fabric over the life span of the
    house. As government policy becomes increasingly concerned with reducing carbon
    emissions and finding more efficient ways of meeting carbon reduction targets, it seems
    possible that hempcrete can make a major contribution to offering a genuinely zero-
    carbon solution to sustainable construction.

    5. Hempcrete in comparison to other free-form construction materials has a much


    higher R-value. Concrete has a typical R- value of about 0.08 per inch of thickness
    compared to hempcrete, which ranges from 2.4 - 4.8 per inch of thickness depending
    on installation. Hempcrete has all the characteristics of Thermal Mass with the added
    benefit of being lighter weight than concrete and other masonry building materials and
    is able to STORE and RELEASE ENERGY (heat) that gives hempcrete its superb ability
    to insulate. Materials like concrete cannot absorb and emit heat quickly and do not
    have the ability to buffer moisture. There is no other construction material on the
    market, which has such a high R-value to low production value ratio.

    Projects that we insulate with Hempcrete:

    • Any home, any size, any design


    • Apartment/Condo buildings
    • Commercial projects
    • Sheds/Shops
    • Barns
    • Packing houses/Wine cellars
    • Hotels/Motels
    • Storage facilities
    • Recording studios

    Advantages to using Hempcrete

    • Shallower foundations
    • 30-40% less lumber, labour in framing
    • Lower transport costs of materials to site
    • Lower finishing costs
    • Lower mechanical (HVAC) requirements
    • Natural fire and pest resistance (NO termites)
    • Amazing acoustic absorption
    • No mold (Highly alkaline due to the lime based binder)
    • Greatly reduces toxins in your living environment
    • Thermal Mass Insulation
    • High Thermal Resistance (R-Value = 2.4 – 4.8 per inch)
    • High Thermal Inertia
    • Significantly reduced Co2 emissions (.545kg/kWh)
    • Inherently airtight (<2: m3/m2 hr @ 50 pa)
    • Low to zero construction waste
    • No dry rot
    • Natural substrate for plasters and renders
    • Discounted home insurances

    Hempcrete Properties
    Listed below are the basic material properties

    • Density: 93.6 to 136.4 Kgs/M3


    • Compressive strength: 116 to 145 pounds per square inch (PSI)
    • Flexural strength: 44 to 58 PSI
    • Fire rating: approximately 1 hour per 4 inches of thickness
    • R-Value: 2.4 – 4.8 per inch
    • Air permeability: 1.0 x 10-6 PSI
    • Vapor permeability: 3.4 x 10-5 PSI
    • Carbon capture: 108kg/M3
    • Achievable air tightness: <1.1 cubic feet per minute
    • Acoustic absorption: 0.69 noise reduction coefficient (NRC)

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