{"id":4489,"date":"2023-01-03T12:46:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T17:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havenearth.biz\/2023\/01\/03\/hemp-building-looking-ahead-for-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T12:46:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T17:46:03","slug":"hemp-building-looking-ahead-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havenearth.biz\/2023\/01\/03\/hemp-building-looking-ahead-for-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemp Building: Looking Ahead for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hemp building shows signs of moving ahead in 2023 in the $2.7 trillion U.S. building industry . Photo by Harry Sopp.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Global Fiber Processing <\/p>\n

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Americhanvre <\/p>\n

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Hemp Build Network <\/p>\n

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Texas Healthy Homes (Copy)<\/p>\n

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South Bend Industrial Hemp<\/p>\n

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By Jean Lotus, editor and publisher, HempBuild Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to find a more sustainable and regenerative building material than tree-saving hemp. The quick-growing crop\u2019s carbon-capturing superpowers fit naturally into world climate goals from the Paris Accord to COP 27. All have focused on the massive carbon footprint of the construction industry: About 38% of greenhouse gasses are generated by construction, while 25% of the world\u2019s landfills will soon be\u00a0filled with construction waste, Architecture 2030 reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If hemp building products can shave off just a sliver of the annual $2.7 trillion U.S. building industry revenue, the industry can be brought to profitability and prices can lower to match those of conventional construction materials, advocates believe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hemp is a cleaner, healthier, recyclable building material that sequesters carbon via photosynthesis while growing, then locks it up for years inside a building\u2019s walls, floors and ceilings. As such, hemp building materials \u2013 if adopted on a large scale \u2013 could help transform the built environment from a major contributor to greenhouse emissions to a central solution for carbon drawdown.<\/p>\n

The year 2023 looks good for hemp building. Let\u2019s look at some of the favorable conditions for the coming year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Homeland Hempcrete <\/p>\n

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Federal Support for Hemp Building Materials<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S. political environment is favorable to push hemp building materials into wider circulation, helping to shore up the growing supply chain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act has opened the door to funding sustainable building solutions, including the federal Buy Clean <\/a>and Green and Resilient Retrofit<\/a> programs. The General Services Administration <\/a>(the federal government\u2019s landlord) and other federal infrastructure purchasers are encouraged to use sustainable, low carbon materials. In 2022, Murray, Kentucky-based HempWood <\/strong><\/a>was awarded \u201cBiopreferred\u201d status through a USDA program that gives preference in federal procurement to vendors of bio-based products.<\/p>\n

The Department of Energy is specifically encouraging hemp building materials in several programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Department of Energy has focused on hemp building materials.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cDecarbonization is the one word that really gets the Department of Energy excited,\u201d Idaho-based Hempitecture, Inc.\u2019s Tommy Gibbons told a crowd at the US Hemp Building Summit<\/a> in Austin, Texas, in October 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey really see hemp as a tool to take carbon out of the air, turn it into value-added products and do that at scale,\u201d he continued. \u201cDecarbonization has become a huge focus of this administration and this Department of Energy; they are willing to go all-in on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some developments in 2022:\u00a0<\/p>\n