Repairs and re-dos are an inevitable part of any project. Read this blog post to learn how to approach this!
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Project management can be daunting for many. Check out this blog post on our secret to managing the seemingly unmanageable.
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Curious about the logistics of hempcrete project management? Scroll through this blog post for more information!
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Everyone wants to know where to source their hemp - it’s the conversation we find ourselves addressing most often! In this post, we give you the information you need to know what to look for in terms of hemp materials sourcing, and where to go to get it.
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There are many types of lime, each which has an appropriate use. The purity of lime in a plaster affects its characteristics. Some limes are more ductile and some limes are better at resisting erosion. Cure times vary, which have impacts on construction scheduling. Follow our journey on lime plaster selection for our lime plaster house in Goshen, MA.
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At the Howland Hemp House in Goshen, Massachusetts, we achieved a better-than-zero carbon emissions building by aggressively pursuing a full palette of natural building materials. We share the numbers on this net carbon-beneficial footprint structure.
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In this episode of Ask the Expert, we prove It’s perfectly practical to build natural buildings to meet code, and guide the way to achieve high performance construction with hempcrete and lime plaster assemblies.
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In this Ask the Expert series, HempStone engages in some primary research to asnwer the question: Are high performance tapes appropriate for hempcrete assemblies, and if so, in which conditions? In the process of answering this question, we provide the building science you need to know to follow us on this journey.
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What’s the moisture level of your hempcrete?
We guide you through the hempcrete drying process and explain how to determine what a hempcrete wall is doing beyond what your eye can see.
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Join Alex Sparrow of UK Hempcrete and Tom Rossmassler of HempStone for an introduction to a natural, carbon-beneficial building material. Hempcrete is a bio-composite walling and insulation material that has captured the attention of the construction industry in the US to address embodied carbon in buildings. Alex has been working with Hempcrete for over a decade in the UK, and co-authored The Hempcrete Book: Designing and building with hemp-lime.
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Does the name search for this bio-composite continue, or can it finally be put to rest? In this article, Alex Sparrow and Jennifer Martin explore the nomenclature behind hempcrete / hemp-lime and invite thoughtful dialogue on this evolving question.
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