Canadian building technology firm Renewabuild Field to Form Ltd. announced its first official U.S. licensing agreement this month. The agreement, signed with newly formed Renewabuild Great Plains, Inc., greenlights a planned manufacturing facility in Rock Valley, Iowa, to produce an interlocking load-bearing hemp-lime wall system.

The first phase of a large hempcrete-based care-home complex being developed by Nepal-based Shah Hemp Inno-Ventures (SHIV) is nearing completion, marking the latest milestone in a decade-long effort by founders Dhiraj Shah and Nivedita Bansal Shah to build commercial and social infrastructure with hemp across South Asia.

An Australian webinar with Dutch-Australian designer Joost Bakker unveiled details of Hollywood actor Zac Efron’s new $2.25 million hempcrete home being built this year in a tropical forest in New South Wales.