Hemp Voices: Cameron McIntosh, Americhanvre Cast Hemp
Cameron McIntosh, (Center), with Damien Baumer (L) and Danny Desjarlais (R), is principal owner/founder Americhanvre Cast Hemp, Allentown, PA
What most interests me about hemp building is that we are using a rapidly, annually and agriculturally renewable feedstock to insulate homes. This is an opportunity to create modern, healthy and high-performing homes for people all across the US.
What was a win for your company in the past year?
Last year, we insulated five residential homes in Minnesota, Virginia, North Carolina and Colorado with the home in Rochester, Minnesota being our largest single family residential home to date and the second largest hempcrete home in the country. We expanded our network of Ereasy system owner operators, which now includes Cornell Universities Agricultural program thanks to one of our original Ereasy system trainees, Henry Gage, Jr., who brought a plan to Larry Smart at Cornell to purchase and make available for rent a full set of Ereasy equipment to our trained Ereasy technicians in the southern tier of New York!
Our owner-operators are beginning to hit their stride as well, like Aaron Grail, who completed a remarkable ADU with Dylan Trimarchi in Bishop, CA.
We also successfully completed our direct to phase II U.S. Army SBIR work which culminated in our ASTM E119 fire resistance data being included in IRC Appendix BL with the help of Hempbuild Magazine and a series of awesome donors.
Finally, we co-hosted the the 13th annual International Hemp Building Symposium with our owner operators, the Lower Sioux Indian Community, in Morton, MN where we demonstrated the speed and consistency of the Ereasy system for 250 attendees from around the world by spraying a hempcrete tipi designed by Homeland Hempcrete.
Last year was one of our most productive, successful and intense years of operation - the work we were able to complete and the continued growth of our company and network of qualified owner operators brings a sense of accomplishment and hope for the future!
Phone: (833) 443-6727
Contact: melissa@americhanvre.com
