An Australian builder that casts hempcrete into prefabricated timber-frame panels has received AUD $2 million ($1.4M USD) from the New South Wales Government to build what it describes as the country's first large-scale hemp panel plant.

Three hempcrete homes went up in Colorado and Minnesota this summer, each with a different wall system: hempcrete cast in place on site, prefabricated hempcrete panels, and hemp blocks set in a steel frame. Builders reported costs from about $260 to about $400 per square foot.

From Hemp Today

The European Union has identified hemp construction as a promising bio-based technology that could be scaled up regionally, while finding that standards, supply chains and market readiness still limit wider deployment.

An historic cotton gin in Central Texas is back in business, this time turning industrial hemp into the raw materials for hempcrete homes and insulation.