Article, Hempcrete house survives Black Summer fires, by Kirstie Wulf, Published June-August 2021 by CSIRO Publishing.
| Publication | THE OWNER BUILDER |
| Article | Hempcrete house survives Black Summer fires |
| Published by | CSIRO Publishing |
| Author (s) | Kirstie Wulf |
| Date | June-August 2021 |
| Notes | Page 40-45 |
| Link | www.theownerbuilder.com.au |
Excerpt Intro to Hempcrete house survives Black Summer fires
A tense summer of bushfires faced those living up and down the east coast of Australia in 2019/2020 and it all came to a head for Nicole on the NSW South Coast on 31 December 2019, when a southerly wind change was predicted.
This wind would change the direction of the fires she could see on the ridge, that up until then had been fanned by a westerly. The southerly would bring the fire toward her home. Nicole had some previous RFS training and had been preparing her property for fire for some weeks, but direct confrontation with fire would put her limited firefighting knowledge to the test and her home depended on it.
However, she had the reassurance that her home was made from hempcrete.
