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A three-bedroom, zero carbon, house built using modern methods of construction and hemp has been constructed in Cambridgeshire.
The ‘Flat House’ on Margent Farm has been built on the site of a steel-framed agricultural building using prefabricated timber-framed cassettes filled with a mulch of hemp, lime, and water. Once the mulch dried the cassettes were lifted into place in just two days.
The “hempcrete” that fills the cassettes offers a high degree of insulation, while the exterior is covered in corrugated panels made from the fibres of hemp stalks mixed with resin taken from agricultural waste.
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