Low carbon hemp house put to the test
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 21:14
in Physics & Chemistry
A consortium in the UK has constructed a small building on a university campus out of hemp-lime to test its properties as a building material. Called the "HemPod", this one-storey building has highly insulating walls made from the chopped woody core, or shiv, of the industrial hemp plant mixed with a specially developed lime-based binder.