Hemp bricks are bricks made of hemp, often with extrusions that make them easy to fit together. They need to be cemented together like regular bricks and are non-load bearing.

Workers stack hemp bricks at the JustBioFiber Structural Solutions manufacturing facility in Alberta, Canada, on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Hemp, helps builders limit their carbon footprints.

It is made using a carefully calibrated mixture of hemp shiv – the dried inner core of the hemp plant – mixed with lime and water. But although hempcrete seems like a very modern building ...

Hemp bricks are becoming increasingly popular in the construction world thanks to their insulating, fire-resistant and climate-friendly properties. Used notably in Europe for thermal renovation of ...

A general view of an exposed hemp bricks wall at the Hemp Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, April 25, 2023. "We see this as a bit of a lighthouse project," Muller says of the Hemp Hotel.

Asinikahtamwak is an Indigenous-owned hemp block company that makes environmentally sustainable building blocks made of cement, water and fibre-based materials like hemp. The bricks have mold and ...

Hempcrete is a bio-based building material helping to power the drive to net-zero, but how can a product developed a millennia ago help tackle today's environmental challenges? Euronews Culture ...