Hemp Building Materials
Hemp can make a cement-like substance that is stronger & lighter than traditional cement.
Green Building Handbook: Volume 2: A Guide to Building Products and their Impact on the Environment
Green Building Handbook: Volume 2: A Guide to Building Products and their Impact on the Environment
This new handbook provides a detailed reference for environmentally concerned purchasers of building products, Invaluable for the speifier, this handbook will be useful to all interested in finding greener ways of designing and building.
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Tips on Sustainable Green Home Building Design Materials
Tips on Sustainable Green Home Building Design Materials
By David Leonhardt and Corey Rozon
The environment is in the media daily, from the Kyoto Protocol, Global Warming to the icecaps melting. If things don’t change soon, the future looks bleak, if you listen to the experts.
What no one seems to be discussing is the advancements in the construction and industrial sectors, namely the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.
“LEED certification will provide challenges to the industry including the need to ensure an understanding of a new generation of materials properties and developing the practices and processes needed to ensure specifications and finished products meet the standards of green building. I am especially exited to be part of this process and in making a contribution towards shaping new building technologies.” Ken Moscrip, President of Paramount Roll and Forming – one of Southern California’s most prominent metal rolling companies.
Consisting of a clear set of environmental performance criteria organized into six categories, the Canadian version of LEED, which is very similar to the USGBC version, is listed below:
Go Green: How to Make a Hemp House of Pain-less Green Building Materials
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Hemcrete Hemp Building
Building a better than zero carbon house with industrial hemp. More on hemp may be found at www.hemp.co.uk Hemcrete is one of many excellent ways of using the industrial hemp crop for positive uses. Please, sit back and enjoy!