Susan Hays and contractor Carl Gradek building her hempcrete house in South Austin Credit: photo by Kevin Curtin In a serene South Austin neighborhood, where the houses are so small compared to the ...

When Nick Manuzak first enrolled at the University of Colorado Boulder, his path seemed clear: a business degree, a career in finance, and a life in the corporate world. But life, as it often does, ...

Kansas State University and Habitat for Humanity of the Northern Flint Hills are working on an affordable house in Ogden, ...

MORTON, MINN. – Eight-foot-tall stalks of hemp swayed in a field on the prairie here, ready for harvest. But these plants won’t get anyone high. Instead, they’ll be turned into hempcrete, a building ...

Hemp was never all that rare. Long before it was banned and stigmatized, this ancient plant was already part of daily life, used in textiles, ship sails, ropes, paper, and even building materials.

Kevin Dupuis from Fond du Lac walks out to look at the hemp in Joey Goodthunder’s field in Morton, Minn., on Sept. 5.

DENVER — As Americans struggle under backbreaking rental prices, builders are turning to innovative ways to churn out more housing, from 3D printing to assembling homes in an indoor factory to using ...

This naturally derived material from hemp stalk cores offers superior insulation and moisture regulation, making it an ...

The Lower Sioux Indian Community in Morton, Minnesota, has become the first in the country to create a fully vertically integrated “seed-to-wall” program using industrial hemp — addressing a critical ...

Discover the top sustainable building materials transforming construction in 2026. From carbon-negative hempcrete to ...

Dezeen School Shows: a project that explores building with hempcrete and straw is among the work by students at the University of Melbourne. Also featured is an exploration of architecture's impact on ...

As Americans struggle under backbreaking rental prices, builders are turning to innovative ways to churn out more housing, from 3D printing to assembling homes in an indoor factory to using hemp — yes ...