Houses from Hemp Cronic Construction

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Construction practices as they currently exist are unsustainable, Replacements of commonly used materials with something more sustainable like Cannabis or hemp fiber is a great first step in Green construction (pun intended).

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Marijuana Masonry

I have mentioned before my career is in the construction field more specifically in Concrete and masonry. While we cant make an alternative to metal materials such as steel and aluminum, There are options for masonry replacements with hemp fiber
cement blocks.

In the modern age, the most popular hemp-based building material has been hempcrete, a refinement on the hemp-lime mortar used in French restoration work. Hempcrete is an infill material made from hemp hurds mixed with a lime-based binder and water. This is possible because hemp hurds have an unusually high silica content for organic material, allowing it to bind to the lime with the same kind of calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) bonds found in hydrated Portland cement.
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One thing that differentiates hempcrete from actual concrete is its density. The binder portion of hempcrete isn’t meant to fill all the voids between the hemp, just to stick them together where the fibers touch. Hempcrete is only about fifteen percent as dense as concrete, and cured hempcrete blocks will actually float in water. Because of this, hempcrete must be used with a frame that supports vertical load, like wooden stud framing.
(This is really important usually timbers or in rare cases metal have to be used here but these blocks can support vertical loads this is a game changer!!)

On the other hand, the significant portion of trapped air in hempcrete makes it good insulation. It's relatively breathable, but a good insulator for both heat and noise. The material is also resistant to mould, and fire-resistant. “We heat [our material] up to over 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit and it barely has an impact,” says builder Mark Faber, of Canadian hempcrete company Just BioFiber. “Very unlikely for this house to catch fire.”In the last five years, more companies have stepped up to the plate on building with hempcrete, especially outside of the U.S.
(This has to change the movement cost savings alone for weight reduction in materials is worth making the change.)

One particularly innovative company is Just BioFiber, which started making prefab building blocks from hempcrete in 2014. Their most famous project is the Harmless Home, a B.C.-based home custom-designed to be ecofriendly. The ecologically-friendly nature of hempcrete drew the homeowners toward picking it, as did its sturdiness. “Limestone houses last forever,” says homeowner Arno Keinonen.

The Harmless Home is a luxury home and, currently, building with hemp is significantly more expensive than more traditional materials. But a recent American legal development may open the door for less expensive hemp houses, and different ways of making them.

Everything would be much cheaper then the current system once the legal bull sh*t gets out of the way.

Bud Boards

Not a bad name for NFTs but not what I'm talking about here I'm referring to a lumber replacement made from Hemp. Other than Wood cellulose insulation replacement and usage in simple particle board materials. Hemp can also be made into a product called HempWood In a similar practice to how Bamboo Boards are made.

The most recent round of innovations in hemp architecture was spurred not by science but by a legal change. On December 20th, the U.S government designated hemp as an “agricultural commodity,” removing it from the scope of the Controlled Substances Act. Specifically, hemp with a THC concentration of not more than 0.3% is now legal to be grown in the U.S., and can be insured and treated like any other crop.

The news attracted the attention of Greg Wilson, owner of startup Fibonacci. Wilson started his career developing bamboo in China and co-owns SmartOak, a Tasmania-based company that makes “engineered wood” from wood pieces too small to make planks from. SmartOak takes wood strands, particles, fibers and flakes from these smaller logs, and bonds them together with adhesive.

Wilson looked for a plant fiber that could be used to replicate the SmartOak process without wood and started experimenting with hemp in the U.S. after a 2014 farm bill allowed for research with it. He developed a product called HempWood, which he says is a more sustainable alternative for hardwoods like oak. According to him, his processing algorithm can “reverse engineer” the hardness, density and stability of specific kinds of wood, and mimic them with plant fibers and “protein-based bonding agents.

”“The final attributes of a plant are based off of mainly the density, so when you have a more dense wood it is a harder more stable product,” Wilson told Maryland-based radio station WKMS. “So, because the density of fast-growing plants, which are more eco-friendly and is typically lower, we have to increase that density. In order to do that, you need to fill the voids in the cell structure of the plant, so we use adhesives.

”The result is an engineered wood that Wilson says is 20 percent denser than oak. That’s good news for both ecological and economic reasons, since a hemp crop takes 4-6 months to mature to an oak tree’s 60 years.
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Wilson has announced that the company is leasing an 11,000-square-foot facility in Kentucky, and that they’re already cultivating more than 40,000 acres of hemp. The company’s website says that they’ll be ready to produce items like flooring, blocks, boards, and finished items like cutting boards and skateboards by summer 2019. “We look forward to being a productive member of Kentucky’s agricultural and manufacturing communities, and the enormous opportunities of HempWood as a renewable alternative to Oak,” Wilson says.

As a pot grower that loves outdoor pot I have mixed feelings about mass scale hemp production ( even my indoor pot can seed out because of it ) but if it can be done in a way that I can still get good smoke I'm all for usage of Hemp or just cannabis trim to make construction materials. Its nice to see advancement in this industry in such a manor right now construction is a huge emissions contributor and cannabis makes everything better.

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