Water, essential to life and hempcrete
Our wildly popular hempcrete 202 trainings at the HempShed have just been outdone! We are thrilled to announce Advanced Training Hempcrete 402 and Lime Plaster 412. This 3 day course expands on lessons from our 202 course. Sorry folks, this training is only available to folks who have attended one of HempStone’s in-person trainings.
Read MoreOur Hempcrete 202 Course this past weekend was a great success! We commenced hempcrete installation on the East and North walls, and applied lime plaster to the interior and exterior South wall!
Read MoreCurious about the wall system set-up of the HempStone HempShed? Check out the details here!
Read MoreWhile Natalie is not new to sustainability, she is new to construction! With an open heart, exhuberant curiosity, and a bit of apprehension, Natalie dove into hempcrete installation, and emerged with a strong sense of understanding, muscles, and know-how!
Read MoreHempStone’s Hempcrete Trainings are back, and are now better than ever!
This summer, consider joining HempStone at the forest edge of South Hadley and dive into the world of radically responsible architecture. We hope to see you there!
Read MoreDive into the essential details of hempcrete you won’t want to miss!
In Hempcrete 201, Alex Sparrow of UK Hempcrete shares robust detailing while Tom Rossmassler of HempStone provides the latest information on hempcrete in the US industry. We’'ll post additional resources to accompany the presentation which aid the adoption of this material in the industry.
Read MoreGet down to the brass tacks of hempcrete with Alex Sparrow of UK Hempcrete and Tom Rossmassler of HempStone on Friday, August 14th. In this continuing education series, we dive into the details you really need to know to design and build with this bio-composite material.
Read MoreJoin 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.
Read MoreHempcrete 101 - Back to the Future with Carbon-beneficial Materials has shifted to online, and you are invited! We welcome you to this free one hour webinar on June 18th at 1pm EDT.
Learn something new, earn some professsional continuing education credits, and enjoy!
Alex and Tom will serve up some delightful imagery and fundamental details of hempcrete, and wet your appetite for an even deeper dive into hempcrete come August when NESEA hosts BE Boston 2020.
Read MoreJoin us May 6th for a free Zoom Webinar to discuss Hemp Building - sponsored by the US Hemp Building Association.
Special guests Alison Mears and Jonsara Ruth of The New School Parsons Healthy Materials Lab will discuss their research into hemp and lime.
This wall segment was used to demonstrate hempcrete installation practices, test binder mix and equipment solutions, and work out the details of formwork against a timber frame. Exposed to the elements, it will test durability over time.
Read MoreGain hands-on experience and have a blast learning about hempcrete - the natural building material poised to take the industry by storm!
Read MoreHempcrete 101: Back to the Future for Natural, Carbon-Beneficial Buildings. Join Tom Rossmassler and Alex Sparrow at NESEA’s BE Boston 2020 conference on March 24.
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