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.

INTERVIEW: An author, teacher and consultant on ecological building, Steve Allin has been building with hemp and promoting hemp’s use in construction all over the world for more than 20 years.

Carbon credits and how they relate to the hemp construction sector will be featured during this year’s International Hemp Building Symposium, set for Amsterdam Oct. 10-11.

A Swedish real estate developer said it will build a net-zero carbon logistics center that combines insulation panels filled with hemp fiber and advanced solar energy infrastructure.

Pre-fabricated hemp building solutions will get special attention at this year’s 10th edition of the International Hemp Building Symposium, set for Lacapelle Marival, France, Oct. 11-12, 2022.

Two South African companies say they will put the finishing touches on a seven-story building expansion constructed with hemp blocks later this year.

Hemporium and Afrimat Hemp, both of Cape Town, partnered to raise an existing conventional five-story building, 84 Harrington Street, to 12 stories by adding levels constructed with blocks from Afrimat Hemp.

An initiative in southern Italy aims to boost hemp growing to clean up polluted land while producing hemp stalks for processing into building materials and other fiber-based outputs.

Hemp building pioneers in Ukraine and Poland have responded to the Russian invasion with courage and generosity.

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY say they have developed a hemp‐based rebar reinforcing technology for cement construction.

Lawrence Serbin is a pioneer of the U.S. hemp industry, having started his company, California-based Hemp Traders in the 1990s.