Kostrobeton and modern "green building"

In Ukraine, there is not only a century of experience hemp construction, but there are companies that use the latest technology hemp "green building", which is already implemented in the current environmental projects of individual housing construction.

In the US, widely noted a new trend in the construction industry - the use of natural materials as the main building material and kostrobetona as a natural alternative to cement. Over the past few years several dozen construction companies in the US and Canada have relied not only on the "green building", and hemp raw materials, gradually became the basis of modern North American environmental construction.

One of the American entrepreneurs who have made a bet on the construction of hemp in the United States can be called James Savage, radically change their lives for the sake of working with cement manufactured on the basis of hemp.

According to James, for her the impetus to the development of the formulation "hemp cement" became catastrophic consequences caused by the hurricane "Katrina" in New Orleans and the devastating earthquake in Haiti.

Working analyst on Wall Street, James Savage concluded that hemp can be used not only as a food, the basic raw materials for light industry, pharmacology, zoobusiness or cosmetic industry. One of the most promising, is not employed by the market, but an extremely sought-after niche is the use of hemp materials in "green building".

That is why his country home in New York, Ms. Savage built from kostrobetona made of a mixture of hemp fibers, water and lime. It added Mrs. Savage developed special additives that increase strength and durability of the walls of the building to various external adverse factors (rainfall, temperature, atmospheric pressure, etc.). After the completion of the walls of the building have been tested Special State Commission who wrote the conclusion that the building envelope is not only fully comply with all US building codes, and the requirements imposed on "green structures".

The commission's report said that the walls of kostrobetona able to "control" the humidity and temperature inside the building only for its natural properties, without any additional hardware. In addition, the effect on the body residing in such buildings constructed on the basis of raw hemp is healing. This kind of experience, "green building" of kostrobetona pushed James Savage fired from Wall Street and his own company "Green Built", specializing in the creation and use of hemp raw materials in construction. The specialization of the company is to use the formula established by Mrs. Savage environmental kostrobetona.

Another pioneer of the construction of the US market using its formula is environmental kostrobetona Hempstone CEO Ken Anderson.

Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"

The use of hemp as a building material is not something revolutionary for the construction market. Several thousands of years as a building material used cannabis in Europe and Asia. For example, in France, are still standing several bridges made over 300 years ago with kostrobetona. Hundreds of buildings in the 80s of the last century were made of concrete on the basis of cannabis in France, Britain, Germany, Belgium.

In Ukraine, there is not only a century of experience hemp construction, but there are construction companies that use the latest technology hemp "green building", which is already implemented in the current environmental projects of individual housing construction. For example, the head of the Kiev company Hempire before starting its activities on the territory of our country for about 10 years "gained experience" on hemp specialized construction sites in Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark.