Australia’s most innovative green homes will be open to the public on Sustainable House Day, taking place on Sunday 17 September. The national event will give people a rare view into exceptional homes designed, built or renovated with sustainability in Read more
A house fit for Grand Designs is under construction in Canberra’s inner north. Once completed, the O’Connor knockdown rebuild will be carbon neutral, termite proof and fire resistant. And it’s made of hemp. When home owner Rowan Woodburn approached designer Read more
It’s fire resistant, termite proof, completely natural and carbon positive – welcome to Canberra’s first hemp house. Plan It Green designer Angela Knock, Prostyle Building Group and owners Rowan and Vicki Woodburn have become pioneers of the technique in the Read more
Bucket by bucket, a hempcrete house is being constructed by volunteer labour in a small New South Wales town to provide an accessible and clean-air environment for triplets with muscular dystrophy. The Read family of Canowindra in central-west New South Read more
Local builder James Isaacs says building homes out of hemp is one of the most sustainable and environmentally friendly ways of doing so, after starting construction on his first hemp house. Mr Isaacs runs the Belubula Hemp Homes construction business, and is currently working on a Read more
Local builder James Isaacs says building homes out of hemp is one of the most sustainable and environmentally friendly ways. of doing so, after starting construction on his first hemp house. Mr Isaacs runs the Belubula Hemp Homes construction business, and is currently working on Read more
Building with hemp is still a novelty in Australia, but interest continues to grow. This house in inner-Sydney is built using hempcrete for its low embodied energy and excellent acoustic and thermal performance. This house is opened for Sustainable House Read more
Australian Hemp Masonry Company has now supplied materials into 42 builds across the country. Check out this recent build ready to be externally rendered with AHMC’s hemp lime render. This artist’s studio at Wilson’s Creek in the Byron Hinterland was Read more
This build won Marrickville’s Council’s Sustainable Building Award in 2016. Designed by Tracy Graham from Connected Design the Marrickville hempcrete house is an alteration and addition to an existing single storey semi detached house in Sydney. Acoustic requirements for aircraft Read more
A CULBURRA Beach home has won a National Building Designers Australia award in Hobart. Kirstie Wulf, from Shelter Building Design, won the award for new residential buildings up to 250m2 and under $2,000/m2, for the house she designed and built Read more