When you’ve seen so many products professing to be ‘eco’, and then you weigh up the pros and cons of each one (which you will – and it’ll take you ages) and suddenly you stumble across Tradical® Hemcrete® the benefits are pretty obvious.
The primary ingredient is hemp - a fast-growing crop that is grown in the UK, so unlike other building and insulation materials it actually locks away CO2 in the fabric of the building.
As it grows it absorbs CO2 and gives off oxygen. Bricks don’t do that. Neither does concrete. So already you can begin to understand why Tradical® Hemcrete® is such a great product to use.
It also has much less embodied energy than traditional building materials such as bricks and blocks or concrete because it’s journey through the product lifecycle is much shorter with far fewer manufacturing processes involved. And it absorbs CO2 and gives off oxygen as it grows (yes, it’s been mentioned already but we wanted to make it clear!). Tradical® Hemcrete® is a mainstream building material with proven credentials and is what we would term a ‘building system’. In other words, there’s a specific way of doing it and no guess-work. It’s tried and tested and as easy as any other method of construction.