Hemp And Lime Cottage
When a Hampshire couple decided to downsize from their family home, a 16thC listed thatched cottage – they wanted their new house to impact on the environment as little as possible. Green construction and minimal running costs were priorities. Bill and Anne Smith instructed AECB members, Inspiration Architects of Newbury, to design a smaller house using one of the most environmentally friendly...
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Clayton House | Tarpon Springs, FL
Developer: Robert Clayton Builder: Buildcon Services Corp. General Contractor: Wayne Ismark Location: Tarpon Springs, Florida Completion Date: Fall 2012 The Clayton House is our latest project featuring the first Tradical ® Hemcrete® house in Florida. The house, built in a coastal community, will meet all hurricane safety codes. The walls will be constructed using Hemcrete® with a directly applied...
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Martin-Korp Residence | Asheville, NC
Client: Private Project: Martin-Korp Residence Location: Asheville, NC Architect: Push Design Completion: 2010 Have proponents of the tight building envelope got it all wrong? Anthony Brenner and David Mosrie of Asheville, N.C.–based Push Design think so. Their reasoning is that while builders can specify non–off-gassing materials, they can’t control the durable goods (furniture and the like)...
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Crawford House | Buckinghamshire, UK
Client: Private Project: The Crawford House Location: Buckinghamshire Architect: Radclyffe Associates Completion: 2008 The brief was to design a small home that would be low maintenance, easy to live in and fulfil highly sustainable criteria. The House, which revolves round a light-filled central atrium for solar gain and light will be build with Tradical® Hemcrete® and feature eco-friendly...
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Clay Fields Housing
Client: Orwell Housing Association Project: Clay Fields (26 eco-houses) Location: Suffolk Architect: Riches Hawley Mikhail Architects Completion: 2008 Spray application of Tradical® Hemcrete® was specified for this 26 unit housing project with Orwell Housing Association. The Clayfield project is an exemplar for transferable ecological design in social housing, with extremely low embodied CO2 in...
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The Nauhaus | Asheville, NC
Client: Prototype Principal: The Nauhaus Institute Location: Asheville, NC Completion Date: 2011 The Nauhaus is a high performance natural building system that combines the best of cutting edge modern building science with the advantages of traditional building techniques and lifestyles. The Nauhaus system is designed to achieve: A dramatic increase in comfort, long-term affordability, and sensory...
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Combining lime and breathable natural materialsto create healthy, comfortable, low energy buildings.
Tradical® Hemcrete® is our highly sustainable hemp-lime product line designed to create insulating walls in new structures or to retrofit existing floors, roofs, and walls with thermally efficient, breathable insulating layers.
Together these form a sustainable bio-composite construction material that combats climate change by capturing carbon and delivering high performance airtight, insulating walls. The carbon capture environmental benefits of Tradical® Hemcrete® offer an immediate way to combat climate change.
We offer a wide range of sustainable low carbon building systems for mainstream construction including lime mortars and lime renders, Tradical® Hemcrete®, External Wall Insulation systems and Breathe® hemp insulation.
