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.

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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.

In June 2025, the City of Phoenix, AZ adopted the 2024 International Residential Code (IRC) along with a handful of natural-building appendices including Appendix BL, Hemp Lime (Hempcrete) Construction. But as far as anyone in the hemp building industry can tell, it went largely unreported.

Over the past year, nine hemp-based building material manufacturers got the chance to take part in a program the US hemp industry has needed for a long time: the creation of standardized, third-party test data required by U.S. building codes and permitting agencies.

Almost two decades after a pioneering hempcrete structure was built near the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s Makoce Agriculture Program learned how to spray hempcrete this summer.

Hemp builders and advocates of sustainable building remembered Austin, TX-based eco-architect Pliny Fisk, III, 82, who died July 27, for his support for hemp-lime building practices that helped Austin become a leader in adopting hemp lime in city building codes.

A hempcrete house in Black Mountain, NC has made a significant rebound in the two years since Hurricane Helene roared through. Apeldoorne House, was selected as a “Top 1% property” by online rental company AirBnb.

A hempcrete home was the bio-construction project featured in a new case-study webinar by Colorado-based Natural Building Alliance. The webinar explained how one family financed and insured a hempcrete home in Wildwood GA

In a milestone for the development of sustainable construction in the Southern Cone, the city of General Pico hosted Argentina’s first theoretical-practical workshop on bioconstruction using industrial hemp and natural techniques.

An $8.4 million award from the US Department of Energy is back-on-track for Idaho’s Hempitecture, Inc., the company said. Things got complicated after the fourth quarter of 2024, when the company was told they won the award, administered through DOE's Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC), to build a hemp processing facility in eastern Tennessee. 

After a rocky couple of months, the U.S. Hemp Building Association has rebuilt its board and is moving forward with new initiatives, new board members say.

A rare opportunity for the natural building community has arrived in the Texas Hill Country: Saoirse Learning Center, a working hempcrete and natural materials campus on 9.71 acres in Blanco, TX, is on the market.

Oregon State University's Global Hemp Innovation Center brought together nine hemp construction companies and ten invited trainees in Corvallis this June for a five-day Train-the-Trainer Workshop focused on hemp-based building systems.

Supplies and construction techniques involving the use of hemp are now being pursued in experiments by a University of New Mexico Professor and a local business owner.

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.  

A British streaming video production company is looking for unique North American homes under construction and producers are especially interested in the use of unconventional materials.