How Neat Is That!?!?

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

How Neat Is That!?!?

A quick update on the Hemp Project. Over the past weekend, I met up an acquaintance of mine. We started chatting and once he found out I was researching hemp products to build a passive solar house he suggested possibly using these methods for his own house. He's interested in building a small house in Nelson, B.C. that is focused purely on functionality and efficiency. We left it at that, but I will be contacting him this week to discuss it further. I will keep you posted of any developments......

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carpsApril 2, 2011 at 1:27 PM
Hey Matt I found a great webiste talking about the usefullness of Hemp products, let me know if you find it usefull! The company is Canadian and located in Ontario.
http://www.hempline.com/applications/composites/
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M. GrandiaApril 2, 2011 at 3:36 PM
Useful link Rob. I came across this some time ago, but didn't make any use of it at that time. I just now sent an email to this company requesting feedback on my thesis topic along with a few questions. Hopefully they'll get back to me and perhaps even assist me with further information. Thanks.
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References

April - 2011

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Arnaud, L. (2009). Comparative Study of Hygro Thermal Performances of Building Materials. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Non-Conventional Materials and Technologies (NOC)

February - 2011

Busbridge, R., & Rhydwen, R. (2010). An investigation of the thermal properties of hemp and clay monolithic walls. Proceedings of Advances in Computing and Technology,(AC&T) the School of Computing and Technology 5th Annual Conference, University of East London, 163-170.

Evrard, A., & De Herde, A. (2005). Bioclimatic envelopes made of lime and hemp concrete. Proceeding of CISBAT,

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