Hempcrete The Building Material That’s Good Mid Mountains News Oct 2023

The article Hempcrete The Building Material That’s Good for You and Good for the Planet was written by Belle Butler and published in Mid Mountains Local News on October 26, 2023

Publication Mid Mountains Local News
ArticleHempcrete The Building Material That’s Good for You and Good for the Planet
Published byRenew
Author (s)Belle Butler
DateOctober 26, 2023
NotesPages 50-54
Linkwww.midmtnslocalnews.com/building-with-hempcrete

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As we rethink how to live in a warming world, building designers like Kirstie Wulf in Hazelbrook are exploring new fire-resistant building materials like hempcrete. In 2015 Kirstie received the National Building Designers Association Award for her first hempcrete home and she’s been designing them ever since.

Meeting building designer Kirstie Wulf in her Hazelbrook home was a bit like walking into someone’s living room on Christmas morning. Kirstie exuded an energy of barely contained excitement, like she had this secret gift that she couldn’t wait to share. The gift was, in fact, her knowledge about hempcrete, a building material that seems to tick all the boxes you could possibly throw at it.

Hempcrete The Building Material That’s Good Mid Mountains News Oct 2023
Kirstie Wulf of Shelter Building Design holding a hempcrete block (Belle Butler)
Hemp hurds to make hempcrete
Hemp hurds come from the woody inner stalk of the hemp plant (Belle Butler)

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