Canada’s University of British Columbia hempcrete building is ‘carbon-minimal.'

 

Construction of a newly opened hempcrete building at Canada’s University of British Columbia (UBC) resulted in 80 percent less carbon emissions than had it been built using traditional techniques and materials, according to researchers who tracked project.

Designed with a goal to reach near-zero “embodied carbon” – the total amount of CO2 emissions associated with the production, transportation, and disposal of a material or product – the project is an initiative of Third Quadrant Design, an interdisciplinary team made up of 60 students from the university’s engineering, architecture, arts and business programs who worked alongside professional contractors.

The 2,400-square-foot building, named “Third Space Commons,” serves as a teaching and learning space at UBC’s Faculty of Applied Science.

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