Amazing Lego-Style HEMP BLOCKS Make Building a House Quick, Easy & Sustainable

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These hempcrete blocks are a green building material made with a hemp-lime insulation mixture packed around a biocomposite structural frame. They can be stacked like bricks to build walls up to 30 feet high and they become the insulation and the structure of the building. All you need to do after the walls are built is plaster the inside and outside, and then add windows, doors, and a roof!
The hemp plant sequesters carbon during its growth, and lime, as it dries, reabsorbs the carbon that was released when it was manufactured, which means the hemp-lime mixture is carbon negative (it sequesters more carbon than it creates in its life cycle). Terry Radford from Just BioFiber says that these hempcrete blocks will sequester about 10 tons of carbon per house.
Just BioFiber is located in Alberta, Canada and you can find out more about their hempcrete blocks here:
justbiofiber.com/
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Not only is this an environmentally friendly building material, it also creates a comfortable living space. The hempcrete helps to regulate temperature and humidity, it reduces noise transmission through the walls, it's fire-resistant, and it's non-toxic.
This is an incredible green building technology and we can't wait to see Just BioFiber ramp up their block production so that we can start to see hempcrete buildings popping up all over the world.
Thanks for watching!
Mat & Danielle
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Music & Song Credits:
All music in this video was composed, performed, and recorded by Mat of Exploring Alternatives.
Editing Credits:
Mat and Danielle of Exploring Alternatives
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Hemp field clip by Hempbassadors
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@ExploringAlternatives 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! You can find out more about Just BioFiber hempcrete blocks here:

@The-carpenter-420 Жыл бұрын

These are the people who our kids should be looking up to not lebron james or any other famous person who can’t read a book

@motivatedtocomment 2 жыл бұрын

The newly constructed hemp houses are not only termite-resistant but they are also fire-resistant, and they can prevent the growth of mold.

@bray7197 Жыл бұрын

another benefit is hemp petrifies in 100 years, When I was in Japan I. visited a 600 year old hemp house and it was beautiful.

@casperkasparov302

Cannabis: God's gift to Humanity.

@gatvele

Cost per block?

@anthonyhicks872 2 жыл бұрын

We tested this specific product in a wall assembly for fire rating at a test lab I worked at. It blew me away how well the hemp fibre composite material resisted high temperatures and flame on the furnace. I really hope to see our society adopting this product full scale in the near future considering all of the benefits.

@sundance9042

This and many other alternatives prove there is NO excuse for homelessness and obscenely over priced property!

@1stDegree-xn2gx

so this house would fly easier in a tornado event

@stankygeorge

They have found 1200 year old hemp and Lym walls that are still standing, after 75 years the wall becomes petrified, you can pass jeans made of hemp fiber down to your grandchildren, hemp oil is outstanding for your health, Henry Ford made a car body out of hemp fiber, then made the oil to lubricate the engine out of hemp, which did not set well with Standard Oil or the Steel Industry.

@sandsphillip526 Жыл бұрын

I wish the Navajo reservation would legalize industrial hemp production so we could start producing these types of materials for our own use and as an export. Our winters are cold and our summers are hot and if these blocks could help with insulation, people wouldn't need to burn as much wood and coal as they do to keep warm in the winter months. Not to mention that the reservation has areas contaminated from all the uranium mines and from my understanding the hemp plant can be used to pull some of that hazardous material from the ground (hopefully before it reaches down into the groundwater) so cultivation would help on that front as well.

@BlueScreenCorp

Just the fact that those blocks are so large and are not hollow speaks to how much of a reduction in weight they are compared to traditional concrete blocks, which are much smaller and hollow but weigh around the same amount. Being able to have such a high insulation value without the need for insulation under siding and inside of framed walls is pretty impressive

@JJones-cl4dm

The earth gives us everything we need and its completely sustainable we just aren't very smart about how we do things. This is a great step in the right direction

@SpiritofGod2012 Жыл бұрын

So glad to see this actually happening…hemp is such a versatile plant with countless uses…let’s hope the rest of the world catches on to it’s thus far hidden value

@davery07 Жыл бұрын

What an amazing alternative to current building techniques. Like the video portrayed, Hemp was used for thousands of years (in fact hemp was required to be grown in the early days of the USA) for rope, paper, textiles, etc. but got a bad rap when industrial barons of the 19th and 20th centuries insisted on using wood (yes they owned the wood) for everything from paper to building products and supplies.

@TheSolfilm 2 жыл бұрын

I love seeing applications of hemp like that. I'm convinced that hemp is the solution to so many problems. You can do so much with it and it's so easy to make it grow and it grows fast.

@FadiaTR 2 жыл бұрын

As a civil engineer, this episode with all the technical detail was just like honey. Thank you for sharing!!

@davidfajfar229 Жыл бұрын

Hempcrete is the best building material ever. It can be done even more simple as this lego aproach, complete diy. We have been living in our hempcrete house for 3 years now and we can't imagine living in a concrete house anymore. Building and living with hempcrete makes you sincerely happy.

@williammiller5575 Жыл бұрын

Living in an area where we get quite a bit of wet weather, I'd be interested in the short and long term affects from exposure to continuously wet conditions.

@daytripper3601 2 жыл бұрын

My daughter at 4 years old coined the phrase "Hemp Hemp Horray Have a Grateful Day!". We did alot of education on this amazing plant & attended a Dead show or two. So good to see this plant become accepted & utilized. This is a product I would use & I hope it takes over concrete!