Katie Theall guided a team of 60 university students fundraise and build the hempcrete building on campus.
Posted: Apr. 21, 2023 7:00AMA room inside a 'carbon-minimal' building is seen in an undated handout photo. One of Canada's first 'carbon-minimal' buildings made with hempcrete is officially open this week and it's located on the University of British Columbia's Vancouver campus.
She said the students mixed the hempcrete in a drum, bringing it to the consistency of oatmeal. They then used buckets to pour it into the two-by-four wood frame. “The difference between concrete and hempcrete is pretty distinct. Hempcrete uses agricultural byproducts, it’s a biocomposite. So, it uses agricultural materials rather than things like aggregate,” said Theall.
“Through our research and investigating different materials, we discovered that hempcrete is supposed to be at least carbon neutral or carbon negative, which is why we decided to try to build with it,” said Theall. Hempcrete takes several weeks or months to cure compared with the curing time of days or weeks for concrete, but it comes with advantages such as being highly insulating, fireproof and zero-carbon, said Rysanek.The group also recently won an inaugural B.C. Embodied Carbon Award for small building construction by showing how the project will be responsible for up to 80 per cent less carbon emissions than had it been built with traditional materials and techniques.
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