What happens in the UK stays in the UK. Heaven forbid any builder in the US would want to build with Hempcrete panelized walls. It would take years of testing and meetings to develop the regulations and standards and by the time our regulatory agencies finally set the standards, the walls would cost twice as much as they do in the UK.
A UK building contractor said it has completed the last of 25 homes built from hempcrete panels in one of the country’s biggest sustainable residential development projects to date.
The homes were built using Biond, a system of pre-formed panels developed by Greencore Construction, a legacy green builder in the UK.
The nine smaller houses and 16 larger ones in the development, Springfield Meadows in Southmoor, Oxfordshire, are now all sold and occupied, according to Greencore. The homes range in size from 1,093 sq. ft to 4,122 sq ft.
The houses meet performance under Passivhaus, a voluntary standard for buildings that require little energy for heating and cooling, and received certification under One Planet Living, an international initiative that advances construction projects that generate more energy than they use and sequester more carbon than they emit.
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Gary Fleisher is the Editor in Chief of Modular Home Source and Offsite Builder magazine. Email at [email protected]
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