house made of straw and hemp

[luke]

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.



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put me down for one

[Brown Sauce]

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