meet the HBANZ team Visit the hempcrete stall
Hemp Summit / Expo Rotorua , 19 - 22 May
Laura and John reside in Eastern Bay of Plenty in a small town called Ōpōtiki . They are borderline obsessed with hempcrete and growing a flourishing hemp industry .
Two years ago , Laura attended New Zealand ’ s first hemp summit . She was eager to meet like minded hemp lovers and learn more about building with hemp .
Unfortunately , hemp building in NZ was not really a thing yet , so she skipped over the Tasman Sea to learn from the Australian Hemp Masonry Company , all the ins and outs of this ‘ new ’ technique .
Growing and processing hemp stalks into usable hurd has been a slow journey for New Zealand but what about the other very important part of a hemp building ? The Binder .
Laura cheekily asked what was in the AHMC Binder but was told this was proprietary knowledge . Common knowledge says that it is mostly lime but what lime ? Hydrated ? Hydraulic ? What else could be in it ? This is
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John tamping hempcrete between formwork .