house made of straw and hemp

luke · Post by **luke** » Thu May 20, 2010 6:41 pm

Researchers from the BRE Centre for Innovative Construction Materials at the University of Bath have built a house made of prefabricated straw and hemp panels on campus to test how they perform as building materials.

Straw and hemp are the ultimate environmentally-friendly building materials – they are totally renewable and because they absorb CO2 as they grow, buildings made from it can have a tiny or even negative carbon footprint.

The BaleHaus@Bath is part of a major new research project in collaboration with Modcell and several other industrial partners into how these renewable building materials can be used for homes of the future.

[web]https://www.bath.ac.uk/features/balehaus ... eted.php#7[/web]

press release
daily mail article

put me down for one

Brown Sauce · Post by **Brown Sauce** » Thu May 20, 2010 9:59 pm

funny, but I've just been looking for a hemp didgeridoo ... if you should come across one, gime a shout ..