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- Heat Energy savings can be 50% to 80% less than conventional construction and design methods. A hempcrete wall has an R-15.
- Fire resistant properties. A rendered Hemp wall provides a 2.5 hour fire wall.
- Puts home building back in the hands of the owner and the community.
- Low thermal conductivity
- Hemp buildings have a high sound attenuation value
- High durability lime becomes stronger as time passes
- The lime/hemp building material is naturally resistant to rats and mice and termites
- Hempcrete is simply a mixture of industrial hemp hydrated lime sand and water.
- Hemp walls breathe or allow moisture to pass through discouraging the growth of mould.
- Hemp improves the air quality reducing airborne molds and toxins
- Carbon negative because it sequesters carbon when used as a building material.
- Hemp produces large quantities of biomass faster than forests without fertilizer or pesticides in most soils and is rapidly renewable
- A 3-month crop on one hectare can produce enough hemp to build a 24 square meter house and small shed
- Hemp building is possibly cheaper than the cheapest form of project homes– ie. brick veneer, with lower embodied energy.
- You can grow your own hemp and using only simple machinery, process the stalks to provide enough material to build your own house of hemp only metres away.
- Recent changes in law now allows for commercial hemp farms in Northern Rivers.
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