I work with clients from across the country as a hempcrete design consultant and developer of turnkey hempcrete residential designs.

I’m most interested in the potential hemp brings to rebuilding our tribal and First Nations communities. We can grow our own homes. Better healthy homes for our people and their children.

What motivates myself and team Tiger Fiber to pursue the hemp building sector is the ability to help develop a truly sustainable construction industry, as the world looks to build out more new living space to be the largest in the history of humanity over the next 30 years. 

Ten years ago I built my own Hempcrete house, at a time when Hempcrete was just starting out in Australia. My hempcrete home functions so well that it does not need mechanical heating or cooling.

I am gobsmacked by the vast size and scope that is the ocean of opportunity in the hemp space. Hemp building is but one niche that has niches within niches.

At CASE and RPI we believe in leapfrogging ahead of existing technology. Our focus is on developing more advanced, next-generation products and processes that can enable wider adoption of hemp as a mainstream raw material for construction.

I am very passionate about sustainability efforts, especially in the construction industry. Hemp building presents opportunities for safer, healthier, longer-lasting products that are also more Earth-friendly.

The most fascinating discovery about hemp I have witnessed is the strong capabilities it has to benefit natural building. Being the VP of the Industrial Hemp Coalition and BuiltForTheFuture, working with hemp has opened my eyes to toxic materials that have been forced on us for many decades.

I love the idea of using environmental building materials made from renewable hemp.  I want to be able to “save the trees"

I love how rewarding hemp building is, and I do truly believe that hempcrete has a tremendous value that most people are not aware of that I think will have a very positive impact on the world. 

Hemp-lime is essentially fireproof and pestproof, is vapor-permeable, and provides substantial sound attenuation and thermal resistance. No other material can do all that. 

As a  CEO of "I-Hemp Katalyst," I am dedicated to Katalyzing change in the industrial hemp market, my role encompasses a broad range of responsibilities and activities to undertake to transform the industrial hemp industry:

Hemp is versatile and can be used in many different applications. I am interested in how it outperforms conventional materials while also creating a cleaner, healthier and more ecologically sound future.

We got hemp textiles to Patagonia and other hemp growers to form a hemp tool bag for Patagonia and recognized that White Earth natives and Navaho Indians and South Dakota natives made this bag.

It is a large plus that this new growth industry can sustainably help people and the planet for years to come. Farmers can grow hemp in rotation with corn and soybeans, adding diversity to their farming operations and their soil.  We can have bio-friendly products such as packaging, plastics, building materials, clothes, protein, and animal bedding.

Hemp’s innate material qualities allow for elegant one stop solutions to building science problems the industry has struggled with for years including, dealing with moisture management, fire rated assemblies, IAQ, net carbon storing solutions, and continuous thermal boundary optimization.

Hemp has a great potential to become a cost-competitive natural building wall system compared to other natural building wall systems out there. It certainly has a better chance of doing that than most of the other styles of natural building.

At KSU, I teach environmental systems and design studios; for the last four years, my studios have been focused on designing and building affordable, net-zero housing. I am very interested in the potential of natural materials, particularly low-process-energy materials, to replace petroleum and chemically based materials in our buildings. Hemp is a fascinating material because it can also be grown and processed locally.

 Exploiting agricultural commodities to capture and store the carbon in a useable fiber with the most incredibly sequestering commodity on this planet is important to Prairie PROducers

Advocating for hemp as an alternative rotational crop has been extremely challenging at times, but rewarding.