Haha! Happy 1 year anniversary of this video! Now I'm so excited! I'm applying for a grant I found and I want to plant hemp and build a house like this one! I loved this video! I'm absorbing EVERYTHING I CAN about this wonderful crop and the possibilities are endless and alllll so beautiful & Aaaaaamazing! We hold the key to improving every aspect of our lives from big pharma to homes, to politics and even cleaning up alllll the pollution on our beautiful rock we live on! Cheers! To the future!!!
So nice to see really smart people addressing the world we live in without the hate. We can change the world from greed to help, it just takes the really smart solutions. Great video
This should be the Canadian standard for new home construction including the solar and Tesla powerwalls should be minimum code under NBC. I love the water reclamation too.
These light weight interlocked blocks should be able to improve steel and concrete structures like high-rises to absorb shock impacts from Earthquakes and bridges to redirect impacts from moving cargo trucks.
I am so impressed by the innovation and level of commitment to sustainability they have shown. You have spurred me to consider a carbon neutral home for my first home.
Brilliant application! Questions + answers = solutions. What method is used to tie the blocks to your foundation, and the roof frame to the walls(wind - lateral & uplift forces)? How is electrical wiring run? Can most wiring be low-voltage DC to eliminate the need for appliance 'wall-warts'? Does wi-fi signal pass thru these walls? How are plumbing lines run? What energy do you use for cooking, hot water? Nice to see powerwalls implemented with solar PVs. Has the solar/storage capacity met your electrical demand? I'd love to see the plans & specs documents. Thank you for doing your part!
WoW. What an amazing video, vision, achievement. I am moved to tears this is wonderful and i hope to use this material in the future and I aspire to create a home that is this eco conscious! Well done to the entire, design and build team!
Love this concept. So many benefits.. the only potential issue I can see is down the road when you need to rewire the house or add wires.. how would you do that?
That is so amazing and inspiring. Thank you also Arno for keeping up with the comments and giving your responses. Am I to understand from some of these comments that you have a group of company that helps others to build something similar? Hope to meet you soon.
This is wonderful... are there any negatives? Are you limited in hanging wall art? Is it truly ‘permanent’? If you want to knock down a wall to make the greenhouse bigger, is that possible with the Jbf blocks being so strong? Can you change the wiring at a later date if you want to add additional lighting somewhere? If you have a leak, you won’t have mold but would you be able to get to the source of the leak for a repair? Absolutely love this concept!! Thank you for sharing your story... 👍🏾
To be honest I see they haven’t responded so hears my 2 cents. Since anytime it cracks it recalsifies I assume that a nail here and there wouldn’t affect it negatively and would just be more permanent and harder to remove.
@@AstroEtherealDiscovery My understanding is that changes and renovations are all completely manageable and may just require some new plaster and paint. The blocks themselves are hollow in the middle allowing for ease of wiring and rewiring.
Any updates, positive or negative, garnered from the performance monitoring? Recently started the research process on designing and building a new home and found this interesting...
Great job Frances! It's exciting to learn about new eco-home building techniques. I think the just biofiber blocks would be ideal for a self-build project.
Love a back to back dual Tennis court sized factory using passive heating/cooling like Earthships use, we need more sporting venues with solar on the roof area and great insulation.
Yes, costs will come down as the process becomes more widespread, but please add the price of the home. It's a gorgeous home in a stunning location, sso the price will be high no matter what method you use. You can't generate real interest in this method without coming clean on the costs.
Nice Build! I don't think many people understand the amount of research and planning that goes into a project like this. It may be fair to inform viewers the foundation and some above grade walls are made of concrete enclosed in insulated concrete forms (ICFs).
Yes, your are right, being the first time the JBF was applied, resulted a great test case where it is readily possible to demonstrate how we still have too much concrete as well as JBF as part of the home! We have been thinking of building a "Home Zero" which would be about 1000 sqft and to eliminate all not so good components of the home in construction such as concrete rebars etc... This would woudl definitely have an eco footprint well within what our one earth can support!
When I was in college I read a study on how there is actually a lot of CO2 in people's homes because of exhausts, off gassing, and other indoor air pollutants. Studies have shown that CO2 is linked to lethargy, winter depression due to low air circulation, and low productivity. So I interpreted that as our farts are making us sad and bad at our jobs. When I learned about hempcrete and how it cures by absorbing CO2 from the air, my first thought was part of that strength comes from our farts.
Really glad to see such a well-done video on this construction material. Given its weight, I'd bet you could build a second story on an existing home without significantly increasing the first story bracing. The fire rating of this material would surely drop your insurance rate also I'd bet.
The cost of our home was less than it would have costed using an ICF exterior wall, or tilt up concrete eco wall... The real life cost will depend on the scale of production it should be after the initial pioneering steps have been taken only marginally more pricey than todays standard homes. BUT the cost of living in the JBF home is way lower than any standard home today. Our home requires less heating energy than a passive house - thus gets to the step 5 of B.C. Step code of eco construction.
Wow mad props to those who put forth this video. Im wanting to work more with self sustained housing and not only does this hempcrete house highlight the industrial benefits of cannabis, but it also seems to be a goal of being self sustained. I was just gonna work more with forming but the blocks (if the idea can be freelanced) could help serve as an educational method of building more safely? or would a structure based stamped hempcrete house be better? :) Interesting video none the less as an american advocate, will be inclined to share this with others. Thanks for not trying to tell anyone there is a difference in hemp and cannabis too. Cant stand misinformation like that at a time when were looking at legalizing this vegetable.
Too lazy to read all the comments, so at the risk asking this question twice, how much cheaper/expensive is this to a standard brick/block construction?
Sorry I have been not looking at comments in a while - thanks to the virus... There is an increasing number of people who would love to have this type of home construction solution! Sadly it takes more time than I would have ever thought to get this all industrially going at sufficient scale to start to make a difference in the ECO living.
@@nettypeters7188 . I consider it my mission - and to a degree that of my spouse Linda - to spread the word, so whatever means this can be helped is appreciated. Linda is an artist and to her our home is a canvas for artistic expressions in various different ways. Whatever ideas and any kind of "small artist scale" you have in mind are very welcome.
@@arnokeinonen8331 Hello. I'm an artist that uses polymer clay for jewelry. I'm learning about hemp bioplastics. Is it possible to create a polymer like substance from hemp?
If there are any government members who are in housing and development, here's some simple advice to rebuilding towns like Lyton and other towns in forested areas. USE HEMPCRETE TO QUICKLY BUILD TOWNS AND FIREPROOF TOWNS AGAINST FUTURE CLIMATE DISASTER. ITS WAY MORE INEXPENSIVE THEN CURRENT BUILDING SYSTEMS. Think about it😊
Thank you for your comment! Please see Arno Keinonen's response below: R-value measurements performed on our walls indicate the value being in the R30 - 40 range. Yet, R value is not a good indicator of the heating performance of the home. Our home performs better than passive house standard despite of large view windows. The high R value helps but even more the heat that the walls retain overnight. For example this summer the outdoor temperature has varied between day and night by more than 10 degrees C (for example 23 daytime and 13 nighttime temperature. Without any heating the house has retained an inside temperature with a drop overnight of only by 1 - 2 C from a daytime high value of typically 23 C.
It varies depending actual conditions outdoors, typically around R 30. But keep in mind that the R-value is a very narrow way of addressing the thermal efficiency of the home. Thermal mass of our exterior walls are very high this results that the home - unexpectedly - outperforms passive house requirements Arno Keinonen - the owner of the home
Arno Keinonen your house is stunning! I hope to see more builds using the same materials and principles. Are there more pictures or videos of the interior that you would be willing to share? Thanks again for sharing with the world this project.
Yes, we know that our home is way bigger than 2 people need, except for the fact that we an art studio and my office also built in and two guest bedrooms. We followed the example of Elon Musk in his pioneering. The fastest way to achieve change is getting people who can afford new technology to want it. This guarantees the fastest way getting investors for this sort of home construction technology. There are may single highly eco friendly homes but they are stand alone and difficult/impractical to adopt by large scale home construction industry - whereas ours is ready to go easy to use AND it goes directly into highest step 5 of the BC step code of eco-construction.
No every part of the house is regrettably not plywood free, it is however chip board free and all interior plywood inside the home (such as in kitchen cabinets) is one using glue which is either very very low on VOCs or free of them.
Thats interesting that they have the water filter right next to the breaker box electronics realm. Might as well shield the water filter if youre optimizing everything.
First of all the reinforcement is not plastic it is glass fiber with only 4 % oil. Secondly the expansion of block production is seriously lacking capacity to deliver blocks on a short notice.
In our home the inside walls are regular with 2x4 and drywalled ones. The joint between the exterior and interior wall is the only place were we see any cracks anywhere in the house as the wooden frame of the interior wall shrinks slightly whereas the JBF exterior wall does not.
If you ever make a home with the rounded edges ...please notify me . In Love with Eartshships and Hemp -crete ! Just need land and a million bucks or 10 ounces of silver.
...and they sprinkeled some pixie dust, and POOF, this 10K sq ft home magically appeared out of the thin air. Tinker Bell lives in the turit, i;m sure. None of the tons of materials took any energy to mine, transport, smelt, form, package, transport, and install. When they are dead, it will make a nice musium or maybe a mosoleum for the poor folks on whose backs it was made.
The cost of our home was no more than normal upscale home, it is anticipated that the cost after these blocks are well established will be no more than a regular stud based exterior walls
@@arnokeinonen8331 if you don't include the heating and cooling cost, your end cost presumption will be less than the cost of building today in a market like toronto. not to mention less trades to involve in the project.
@@masonman88 Our living cost is already nearly zero, other than property tax. We produce more energy than we consume both for home and for electric cars. Also given time I believe that the insurance premium for homes with very low maintenance, no mold problems (which are driving insurance rates up certainly in B.C.), high fire and earth quake proofness will get us lower and lower annual insurance costs... Etc.
@@arnokeinonen8331 how accepting was the government with your building permits. were they willing to sign off as long as an engineer would accept liability I so want to build with hemp. I have a property in downtown t.o. near zero balance and want to create something similar to what you have accomplished for your home. building an 8 ( or more ) unit rental build would be a different in codes an ordinances . but I am thinking I might have to build with the older hemp style with a wood framed load bearing structure and pack the hemp.
@@masonman88 The biggest question I have had a long time how on earth did we get a building permit even! Well first we got a building permit for foundation etc. and what was left conditional to additional verification of issues such as the functioning of the new solutions. I had to let go of the original engineer as he could not answer any of those conditional questions. Then fortunately the JBF company had worked with an engineer in Calgary who was also registered as an engineer in B.C. He became the building envelope engineer and approved the JBF solutions. The functioning of the JBF solutions was all verified using a combination of physical tests and FEM modelling calculations for the strength of the JBF walls. Yet the JBF was not integrated into the building code, thus our home remained an exception to normal. Next construction in Victoria using JBF blocks got caught for the reason that the architect and engineer had strict requirements to stick to the building code itself. This lead to significant compromises in the structure of this next home in Victoria wish steel beams and more concrete than typically needed as the engineer was apparently obligated to use a high safety factor for such new solution. In our case the architect Jack Anderson chose to never take the full architecture degree to enable him to design eco homes so this also made it possible to get done what we did! Now the JBF is about to get fully incorporated into the building code, I think virus is slowing it down a bit though...
fiberglass, 4 % oil and a secret compound from lime. A secrecy of production is that a 350 tonne press changes the molecular structure of the structural frame, making it very strong, and totally fireproof it does not loose any of its structural strength in a fire test of the JBF wall.
Magical Mystery Masonry. Not concrete. Nope. Just a slurry made from sand, slaked lime, gravel, and water and poured into some forms around some re-bar to dry and become rock hard. Totally natural and green, see.
Yes, what's old is new again, however, it's the added structural stability of these patented blocks that makes them a builder's dream because of their design and ease, and the ability to run conduit through them.
The hempcrete itself is well known indeed. The invention is the combination of hempcrete with a structural frame which is the main invention. This provides very high structural strength, is fireproof, is earth quake proof and very easy build on an industrial basis.
Not quite yet commercially available, expansion of production is expected a later this year - virus even resulted closing existing manufacturing facilities
OK it is a cool well built home but to me a little excessive for two people. I've been building green passive solar homes with attached green houses since 1981. Building one right now and it's absolutely the smartest way to build a home. Love this houses building method, just too big for me
Its a shame that in our society , when you are young, building a family etc, you are struggling to live in a proper home, and you are only able to do that once you are 80 years old only having a few years left to enjoy it. Our society is trash
You are right, it is a shame that better solutions have not been provided for people in general. Someone needs to pioneer new more efficient cheaper more sustainable solutions. This regrettably most young families can not afford to do. I am over 70 years old when building our eco home. Yet, highly motivated to lead by example doing what we are doing. This itself makes life more meaningful, inspiring and generally feeling better about having done something to improve conditions of life on the Earth.
Building a house with hemp is the future! You just need 2.5 acres to build a 1,250sq ft house.. So the bigger the farm the bigger the house. Imagine not worrying about paying mortgage.
Thank you for your comment! Please see Arno Keinonen's response below: a. Our intent was to build an upscale eco home, which is desirable to even wealthy people. This is a proven way to accelerate change to get significant investment into such new powerful technology. Our house price per sqft was lower than any upscale home using more standard house construction technology. b. Simple homes could be easily be built for lower price per sqft than current home standards to Canadian building code, with much lower monthly cost of living in one, and vastly better energy performance and safety against mold, toxins etc. Once all the engineering using these blocks as part of home construction is fully accepted as part of Canadian building code, there is no reason why a home could not be build for a cost of $150,000. Other components of home than the exterior walls will be a much bigger part of the price of home, to meet requirements of the Canadian building code.
Well, the issue of "climate change" is a political bungle and we all know that, the world itself has cycles of heat and cold that last approximately a century and that has been highly documented for the last 500 years, everyone knows the terrible heat that occurred throughout the world about 300 years ago that even vines grew in Bergen in Norway above the Arctic Circle and in Spain and Italy people and animals died from the heat in the streets and fields, and birds fell from the sky. sky killed by the hot air, all over the world tragedies were reported among people due to that terrible period of heat, MUCH HOTTER THAN WHAT WE ARE GOING THROUGH NOW, and it is also well known how cold there was between the 18th and 19th centuries. which were so terrible that the River Thames in London froze to such an extent that houses and buildings were built on the frozen water of the river believing that the cold would never go away, and that the sea on the Isle of Man froze miles out to sea. that the docks were of no use, it was so cold that the Nile delta in Egypt was all frozen and the Nile could not be navigated, and there were so many ice floes in the Mediterranean Sea that many ships sank after colliding with those floes, All over the world there were records of the tragedies that the cold caused for a long time and that is very documented SO DON'T INSIST WITH THAT SHIT THAT "CLIMATE CHANGE" IS SOMETHING MADE BY MAN BECAUSE IT IS NOT, but all of that It is a political move that seeks MONEY DERIVED FROM TAXES, and the more politicians refer to it, the more FALSE IT IS so don't be too quick to insist on something we all know is FALSE. Another thing is the wonderful house that they built with those innovative methods and that seem very good, I really liked the possibility of using materials that seem very very durable (they said 500 years, that is excellent) and with ease of construction of the building and of how easy it would be to maintain the house, amazing method, dudes, really great I would like to know the cost of building a large house like that, surely there is a cost estimate per square meter because from what I see it would cost cheaper than a traditional wood or concrete building and would have a much longer life expectancy compared to those others old building materials I congratulate you for sharing your experiences and this new way of building, greetings
Can anyone confirm that they've experienced one of these homes and they really are mold resistant? I'm worried that none exist more than 5 years old to really know
We have wall measurements through north wall and south wall of the home which measure through the exterior wall both heat flow as well as humidity levels at different locations of the JBF blocks. The wall automatically breaths the humidity through which means that there is no condensation point anywhere, as there is no vapour barrier! Mold only forms when humidity turns to condensation of water, thus having 100 % humidity. In real life the measured humidity of our exterior walls throughout the year within the wall does not go above about around 70 %.
... apart from that before they moved into this HUGE footprint home there was Nature there. It is a good build, but to call it harmless it should have gone on a different spot
I know from my career experience that one has to start change by doing something that people who can afford to fund the change want. There are many small very eco friendly homes which do indeed have a very low eco footprint. Yet, none of those have made any difference in the larger scale of home construction. This is why we chose to built a home which would be desirable to ones who can AND WILL fund the adoption of this very eco friendly solution into the main line construction industry,
@@MrsHyphenate Sorry but you obviously do not know us, nor the specifics of what, why and how we have done. Please come by and see this I will gladly show tell you (virus situation allowing), how and why our home is a very powerful step in converting life into the one earth footprint level. We are in our retirement are busier than when working! We have in our home both an art studio and an office for me as well as two guest bedrooms!
@@arnokeinonen8331 that being true, it would still have been better to rework some space that wasn't natural before. This can definitely be called an improvement to many other luxury houses! But "harmless" implies a much higher standard. I'm not saying it's bad, just that it isn't what it's called and that's sorta misleading. Merry upcoming Advent :)
House could have been an apartment building for about 10 families, located in an urban area where affordable housing is needed instead of creating yet another huge fucking human footprint on a beautiful natural area. Who cares if it was built with hemp? The trees and plants and animals that were there before were much more "eco-friendly" and harmless.
sure the product is somewhat eco green, but the design, concept , location and lifestyle are very problematic Huge ego involved here, this is a house for an elderly couple......but what does one do after reaping a fortune out of the ground, capitalising on the oil business for a lifetime. Mine ,mine mine, me, me , me. So proud of the accomplishment. Where i live in desolation sound, the bluff ecosystem is critically endangered by people building in the habitat. plants and animals rely on those areas.< it is the only home for them.Look at the driveway, and the foundation for this house, they have cut and excavated a huge area, lots of diesel fuel burned to do that. And they will always need one , probably two, four wheel drive large suv's to get up that hill, The practical trend for this demographic, is to have a condo in the city somewhere, because the home is so isolated and not sustainable on a social interaction/emotional level. This is not part of their life. Feel so sorry for them, and that demographic has ruled the world , to this point!!?. Lots of plastic in that house, and a huge work crew, driving there everyday, ultra green certification requires that we look at those effects as well, it all counts! the technology involved is surprisingly complex, and has a short lifespan, lots of unrecyclable in the end. relying on tech to save the world is insane, this house is a good example of this. after our tech lifestyle has destroyed the earth, we rely on it to save it???? We all need to live simpler, local lifestyles, in community, sharing.
Thank you for being the 1st and for setting a standard
Now rich people can live in eco homes, while the rest of us, scrape by.
This is a new way for rich people to show off their wealth.
Wow, what a great idea, but omg what a huge house for two wee bodies!! A commune could live there... !
The two of you looking at each other at the beginning is worth the vid...
Haha! Happy 1 year anniversary of this video! Now I'm so excited! I'm applying for a grant I found and I want to plant hemp and build a house like this one! I loved this video! I'm absorbing EVERYTHING I CAN about this wonderful crop and the possibilities are endless and alllll so beautiful & Aaaaaamazing!
We hold the key to improving every aspect of our lives from big pharma to homes, to politics and even cleaning up alllll the pollution on our beautiful rock we live on!
Cheers! To the future!!!
My hat off for you. We also think the same!
Yes… we are all joining you! What a wonderful attitude and future! Thank you🙏❤️
So nice to see really smart people addressing the world we live in without the hate. We can change the world from greed to help, it just takes the really smart solutions. Great video
Arno - Thanks for sharing this wonderful video and for pioneering the way to brighter future in our built environment!
This should be the Canadian standard for new home construction including the solar and Tesla powerwalls should be minimum code under NBC. I love the water reclamation too.
These light weight interlocked blocks should be able to improve steel and concrete structures
like high-rises to absorb shock impacts from Earthquakes and bridges to redirect impacts from moving cargo trucks.
where can we info on this and is available in the united state love this video
I am so impressed by the innovation and level of commitment to sustainability they have shown. You have spurred me to consider a carbon neutral home for my first home.
Brilliant application! Questions + answers = solutions. What method is used to tie the blocks to your foundation, and the roof frame to the walls(wind - lateral & uplift forces)? How is electrical wiring run? Can most wiring be low-voltage DC to eliminate the need for appliance 'wall-warts'? Does wi-fi signal pass thru these walls? How are plumbing lines run? What energy do you use for cooking, hot water? Nice to see powerwalls implemented with solar PVs. Has the solar/storage capacity met your electrical demand? I'd love to see the plans & specs documents. Thank you for doing your part!
Awesome job on this video Frances. So exciting to see this new building product and all the benefits of using it.
WoW. What an amazing video, vision, achievement. I am moved to tears this is wonderful and i hope to use this material in the future and I aspire to create a home that is this eco conscious! Well done to the entire, design and build team!
Hi, amazing work. What i didn't understand was the part with the pressure applied to the blocks. What gets infused there and why? Thanks
Love this concept. So many benefits.. the only potential issue I can see is down the road when you need to rewire the house or add wires.. how would you do that?
That is so amazing and inspiring. Thank you also Arno for keeping up with the comments and giving your responses. Am I to understand from some of these comments that you have a group of company that helps others to build something similar? Hope to meet you soon.
I would love to know how the house is doing and where to find equipment to build something like this
Look up Just biofiber
This is wonderful... are there any negatives? Are you limited in hanging wall art? Is it truly ‘permanent’? If you want to knock down a wall to make the greenhouse bigger, is that possible with the Jbf blocks being so strong? Can you change the wiring at a later date if you want to add additional lighting somewhere? If you have a leak, you won’t have mold but would you be able to get to the source of the leak for a repair? Absolutely love this concept!! Thank you for sharing your story... 👍🏾
To be honest I see they haven’t responded so hears my 2 cents.
Since anytime it cracks it recalsifies I assume that a nail here and there wouldn’t affect it negatively and would just be more permanent and harder to remove.
@@AstroEtherealDiscovery My understanding is that changes and renovations are all completely manageable and may just require some new plaster and paint. The blocks themselves are hollow in the middle allowing for ease of wiring and rewiring.
@@creativelyunited such an attractive option for building.
Brilliant idea. I hope the company is marketing to builders, especially the national builders in the Southwest.
Honestly the most beautiful home Ive ever seen. So obsessed. Love you guys good job!!!! 💖🤘
Any updates, positive or negative, garnered from the performance monitoring? Recently started the research process on designing and building a new home and found this interesting...
Great job Frances! It's exciting to learn about new eco-home building techniques. I think the just biofiber blocks would be ideal for a self-build project.
Does your team work on US projects? Would love to start a project like this in Michigan
Great video, inspiring . Thanks for posting.
Fantastic. Thank you for the upload. And the work you're all doing. ✌
Are they ever going to produce any more blocks? I've been waiting for years...
Absolutely astonishing! Thank you for sharing this amazing video ❤
Amazing what can be done when there are few if any budgetary constraints.
I'm so excited by these concepts!
Brilliant! Just plain brilliant!
This is awesome - I want to build another home now!
Fascinating. Would be cool to see an update video and hear about how is it going for the building material product in addition to this project.
Hi everyone
Can we get jbf or it's equivalent in Australia?
Love a back to back dual Tennis court sized factory using passive heating/cooling like Earthships use, we need more sporting venues with solar on the roof area and great insulation.
Peace Power & Blessings. You are contributing directly to reducing Ecoside. Much respect , 3rdStoneVisionary.
Yes, costs will come down as the process becomes more widespread, but please add the price of the home. It's a gorgeous home in a stunning location, sso the price will be high no matter what method you use. You can't generate real interest in this method without coming clean on the costs.
Please could you comment on price. Thanks
lovely! still such a large house, a bit house obesity but love the concept and dream of these two.
We would need 5 Earths for everyone to live like this, but yea I understand it's the principle.
1000 likes and no dislikes! Never seen that before.
For your information since you haven't seem to noticed: TH-cam is not publicly displaying the number of dislikes anymore.
HURRT UP AND MAKE THIS AFFORDABLE AND ACCESSABLE!!!!!!!!!!
Nice Build! I don't think many people understand the amount of research and planning that goes into a project like this.
It may be fair to inform viewers the foundation and some above grade walls are made of concrete enclosed in insulated concrete forms (ICFs).
Yes, your are right, being the first time the JBF was applied, resulted a great test case where it is readily possible to demonstrate how we still have too much concrete as well as JBF as part of the home! We have been thinking of building a "Home Zero" which would be about 1000 sqft and to eliminate all not so good components of the home in construction such as concrete rebars etc... This would woudl definitely have an eco footprint well within what our one earth can support!
Are there any other homes like this that are more recent? Great technical info!
When I was in college I read a study on how there is actually a lot of CO2 in people's homes because of exhausts, off gassing, and other indoor air pollutants. Studies have shown that CO2 is linked to lethargy, winter depression due to low air circulation, and low productivity. So I interpreted that as our farts are making us sad and bad at our jobs.
When I learned about hempcrete and how it cures by absorbing CO2 from the air, my first thought was part of that strength comes from our farts.
Really glad to see such a well-done video on this construction material. Given its weight, I'd bet you could build a second story on an existing home without significantly increasing the first story bracing. The fire rating of this material would surely drop your insurance rate also I'd bet.
Wow, this is truly remarkable ❤️🌱❤️!!!
whats a budget on this structure... is this available to regular people or big budget
Where can be buy the blocks ?
All houses should be made in this.
How would this material work in SK with the cold winters we have?
This is my dream too, to build and live in a hemp house.
How much did it cost to make? Just curious. Building with those hempcrete blocks are a great idea!
The cost of our home was less than it would have costed using an ICF exterior wall, or tilt up concrete eco wall... The real life cost will depend on the scale of production it should be after the initial pioneering steps have been taken only marginally more pricey than todays standard homes. BUT the cost of living in the JBF home is way lower than any standard home today. Our home requires less heating energy than a passive house - thus gets to the step 5 of B.C. Step code of eco construction.
They made giant Leggos! Sign me up!
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Wow mad props to those who put forth this video. Im wanting to work more with self sustained housing and not only does this hempcrete house highlight the industrial benefits of cannabis, but it also seems to be a goal of being self sustained. I was just gonna work more with forming but the blocks (if the idea can be freelanced) could help serve as an educational method of building more safely? or would a structure based stamped hempcrete house be better? :) Interesting video none the less as an american advocate, will be inclined to share this with others. Thanks for not trying to tell anyone there is a difference in hemp and cannabis too. Cant stand misinformation like that at a time when were looking at legalizing this vegetable.
Such an amazing project they managed to get Paulie Malinaggi to come and help out 3:07
Awesome innovations!
Fabulous thank you all
Too lazy to read all the comments, so at the risk asking this question twice, how much cheaper/expensive is this to a standard brick/block construction?
Does this company have anyone to build in Arizona?
How do I learn this trade in the United States
I love to have a home in Canada?
I'm very curious to know how this house performed during the awful heat dome this past summer in B.C.
Without AC it would be an oven.
I want to meet you guys, I want to make this, I am totally in love with this product!
Sorry I have been not looking at comments in a while - thanks to the virus... There is an increasing number of people who would love to have this type of home construction solution! Sadly it takes more time than I would have ever thought to get this all industrially going at sufficient scale to start to make a difference in the ECO living.
@@arnokeinonen8331 can I do something on a small artist scale to bring more awareness about you amazing product?
@@nettypeters7188 . I consider it my mission - and to a degree that of my spouse Linda - to spread the word, so whatever means this can be helped is appreciated. Linda is an artist and to her our home is a canvas for artistic expressions in various different ways. Whatever ideas and any kind of "small artist scale" you have in mind are very welcome.
@@arnokeinonen8331 Hello. I'm an artist that uses polymer clay for jewelry. I'm learning about hemp bioplastics. Is it possible to create a polymer like substance from hemp?
If there are any government members who are in housing and development, here's some simple advice to rebuilding towns like Lyton and other towns in forested areas. USE HEMPCRETE TO QUICKLY BUILD TOWNS AND FIREPROOF TOWNS AGAINST FUTURE CLIMATE DISASTER.
ITS WAY MORE INEXPENSIVE THEN CURRENT BUILDING SYSTEMS. Think about it😊
How can I get one built for me?
This is truly fantastic. Anxious to learn more about this material for home building.
Any idea on where R value will land?
Thank you for your comment! Please see Arno Keinonen's response below:
R-value measurements performed on our walls indicate the value being in the R30 - 40 range. Yet, R value is not a good indicator of the heating performance of the home. Our home performs better than passive house standard despite of large view windows. The high R value helps but even more the heat that the walls retain overnight. For example this summer the outdoor temperature has varied between day and night by more than 10 degrees C (for example 23 daytime and 13 nighttime temperature. Without any heating the house has retained an inside temperature with a drop overnight of only by 1 - 2 C from a daytime high value of typically 23 C.
It varies depending actual conditions outdoors, typically around R 30. But keep in mind that the R-value is a very narrow way of addressing the thermal efficiency of the home. Thermal mass of our exterior walls are very high this results that the home - unexpectedly - outperforms passive house requirements
Arno Keinonen - the owner of the home
Arno Keinonen your house is stunning! I hope to see more builds using the same materials and principles. Are there more pictures or videos of the interior that you would be willing to share? Thanks again for sharing with the world this project.
Brilliant idea!! Wow
Beautiful home but if you want to shrink your carbon footprint maybe you have chosen a smaller design. That is a lot of home for 2 people.
Yes, we know that our home is way bigger than 2 people need, except for the fact that we an art studio and my office also built in and two guest bedrooms. We followed the example of Elon Musk in his pioneering. The fastest way to achieve change is getting people who can afford new technology to want it. This guarantees the fastest way getting investors for this sort of home construction technology. There are may single highly eco friendly homes but they are stand alone and difficult/impractical to adopt by large scale home construction industry - whereas ours is ready to go easy to use AND it goes directly into highest step 5 of the BC step code of eco-construction.
Lovely house, but quite big. Side question: In the "control room' it looks like the one wall is all plywood, I thought is was plywood free?
No every part of the house is regrettably not plywood free, it is however chip board free and all interior plywood inside the home (such as in kitchen cabinets) is one using glue which is either very very low on VOCs or free of them.
Thats interesting that they have the water filter right next to the breaker box electronics realm. Might as well shield the water filter if youre optimizing everything.
What about flooding?
fabulous
Please send me the link where I can find these plastic reinforced hemp blocks
First of all the reinforcement is not plastic it is glass fiber with only 4 % oil. Secondly the expansion of block production is seriously lacking capacity to deliver blocks on a short notice.
@@arnokeinonen8331 Can I please also get the link and about how much notice is needed?
To keep with green, how did you create the walls inside this house on the 2x4's?
In our home the inside walls are regular with 2x4 and drywalled ones. The joint between the exterior and interior wall is the only place were we see any cracks anywhere in the house as the wooden frame of the interior wall shrinks slightly whereas the JBF exterior wall does not.
@@arnokeinonen8331 Thank you.
If you ever make a home with the rounded edges ...please notify me . In Love with Eartshships and Hemp -crete ! Just need land and a million bucks or 10 ounces of silver.
Why million bucks? Hemp grows and u don't need money..all you need is a hemp farm and skills to build a house..you don't need a lot of money
...and they sprinkeled some pixie dust, and POOF, this 10K sq ft home magically appeared out of the thin air. Tinker Bell lives in the turit, i;m sure. None of the tons of materials took any energy to mine, transport, smelt, form, package, transport, and install. When they are dead, it will make a nice musium or maybe a mosoleum for the poor folks on whose backs it was made.
what would be the cost comparison to a masonry built home in Toronto at 1000 square feet per floor W/O the basement.
The cost of our home was no more than normal upscale home, it is anticipated that the cost after these blocks are well established will be no more than a regular stud based exterior walls
@@arnokeinonen8331 if you don't include the heating and cooling cost, your end cost presumption will be less than the cost of building today in a market like toronto. not to mention less trades to involve in the project.
@@masonman88 Our living cost is already nearly zero, other than property tax. We produce more energy than we consume both for home and for electric cars. Also given time I believe that the insurance premium for homes with very low maintenance, no mold problems (which are driving insurance rates up certainly in B.C.), high fire and earth quake proofness will get us lower and lower annual insurance costs... Etc.
@@arnokeinonen8331 how accepting was the government with your building permits.
were they willing to sign off as long as an engineer would accept liability
I so want to build with hemp. I have a property in downtown t.o. near zero balance and want to create something similar to what you have accomplished for your home. building an 8 ( or more ) unit rental build would be a different in codes an ordinances . but I am thinking I might have to build with the older hemp style with a wood framed load bearing structure and pack the hemp.
@@masonman88 The biggest question I have had a long time how on earth did we get a building permit even! Well first we got a building permit for foundation etc. and what was left conditional to additional verification of issues such as the functioning of the new solutions. I had to let go of the original engineer as he could not answer any of those conditional questions. Then fortunately the JBF company had worked with an engineer in Calgary who was also registered as an engineer in B.C. He became the building envelope engineer and approved the JBF solutions. The functioning of the JBF solutions was all verified using a combination of physical tests and FEM modelling calculations for the strength of the JBF walls. Yet the JBF was not integrated into the building code, thus our home remained an exception to normal. Next construction in Victoria using JBF blocks got caught for the reason that the architect and engineer had strict requirements to stick to the building code itself. This lead to significant compromises in the structure of this next home in Victoria wish steel beams and more concrete than typically needed as the engineer was apparently obligated to use a high safety factor for such new solution. In our case the architect Jack Anderson chose to never take the full architecture degree to enable him to design eco homes so this also made it possible to get done what we did! Now the JBF is about to get fully incorporated into the building code, I think virus is slowing it down a bit though...
What are the green frames made of?
fiberglass, 4 % oil and a secret compound from lime. A secrecy of production is that a 350 tonne press changes the molecular structure of the structural frame, making it very strong, and totally fireproof it does not loose any of its structural strength in a fire test of the JBF wall.
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Whats the foundation ot the house made off?
Magical Mystery Masonry. Not concrete. Nope. Just a slurry made from sand, slaked lime, gravel, and water and poured into some forms around some re-bar to dry and become rock hard. Totally natural and green, see.
Im jealous no joke
It's just hempcrete, it's been used to make houses before... not the first in the world. Amazing construction material
Yes, what's old is new again, however, it's the added structural stability of these patented blocks that makes them a builder's dream because of their design and ease, and the ability to run conduit through them.
@@franceslitmanphoto my system is better. invented 6 years ago! ;0)
The hempcrete itself is well known indeed. The invention is the combination of hempcrete with a structural frame which is the main invention. This provides very high structural strength, is fireproof, is earth quake proof and very easy build on an industrial basis.
@@jammapcb Well, francis is cuter anyway, even if comes across as a little snarky.
Where can I buy hemp bricks in Western Canada? can't seem to find anything. We are in the south Okanagan BC
Not quite yet commercially available, expansion of production is expected a later this year - virus even resulted closing existing manufacturing facilities
@@arnokeinonen8331 How is the progress going on the bricks?
I'm just across the Strait from Victoria. Do you do projects in the US?
Not expanding fast enough to get to US yet.
awesome!
real cool id add a rabbit along top and bottom so when stacked it provides a channel for coax
OK it is a cool well built home but to me a little excessive for two people. I've been building green passive solar homes with attached green houses since 1981. Building one right now and it's absolutely the smartest way to build a home. Love this houses building method, just too big for me
The house is edible?
Its a shame that in our society , when you are young, building a family etc, you are struggling to live in a proper home, and you are only able to do that once you are 80 years old only having a few years left to enjoy it. Our society is trash
You are right, it is a shame that better solutions have not been provided for people in general. Someone needs to pioneer new more efficient cheaper more sustainable solutions. This regrettably most young families can not afford to do. I am over 70 years old when building our eco home. Yet, highly motivated to lead by example doing what we are doing. This itself makes life more meaningful, inspiring and generally feeling better about having done something to improve conditions of life on the Earth.
Building a house with hemp is the future! You just need 2.5 acres to build a 1,250sq ft house.. So the bigger the farm the bigger the house. Imagine not worrying about paying mortgage.
Can you build this house for at most $150,000, without the land?
Thank you for your comment! Please see Arno Keinonen's response below:
a. Our intent was to build an upscale eco home, which is desirable to even wealthy people. This is a proven way to accelerate change to get significant investment into such new powerful technology. Our house price per sqft was lower than any upscale home using more standard house construction technology.
b. Simple homes could be easily be built for lower price per sqft than current home standards to Canadian building code, with much lower monthly cost of living in one, and vastly better energy performance and safety against mold, toxins etc. Once all the engineering using these blocks as part of home construction is fully accepted as part of Canadian building code, there is no reason why a home could not be build for a cost of $150,000. Other components of home than the exterior walls will be a much bigger part of the price of home, to meet requirements of the Canadian building code.
Well, the issue of "climate change" is a political bungle and we all know that, the world itself has cycles of heat and cold that last approximately a century and that has been highly documented for the last 500 years, everyone knows the terrible heat that occurred throughout the world about 300 years ago that even vines grew in Bergen in Norway above the Arctic Circle and in Spain and Italy people and animals died from the heat in the streets and fields, and birds fell from the sky. sky killed by the hot air, all over the world tragedies were reported among people due to that terrible period of heat, MUCH HOTTER THAN WHAT WE ARE GOING THROUGH NOW, and it is also well known how cold there was between the 18th and 19th centuries. which were so terrible that the River Thames in London froze to such an extent that houses and buildings were built on the frozen water of the river believing that the cold would never go away, and that the sea on the Isle of Man froze miles out to sea. that the docks were of no use, it was so cold that the Nile delta in Egypt was all frozen and the Nile could not be navigated, and there were so many ice floes in the Mediterranean Sea that many ships sank after colliding with those floes, All over the world there were records of the tragedies that the cold caused for a long time and that is very documented SO DON'T INSIST WITH THAT SHIT THAT "CLIMATE CHANGE" IS SOMETHING MADE BY MAN BECAUSE IT IS NOT, but all of that It is a political move that seeks MONEY DERIVED FROM TAXES, and the more politicians refer to it, the more FALSE IT IS so don't be too quick to insist on something we all know is FALSE.
Another thing is the wonderful house that they built with those innovative methods and that seem very good, I really liked the possibility of using materials that seem very very durable (they said 500 years, that is excellent) and with ease of construction of the building and of how easy it would be to maintain the house, amazing method, dudes, really great
I would like to know the cost of building a large house like that, surely there is a cost estimate per square meter because from what I see it would cost cheaper than a traditional wood or concrete building and would have a much longer life expectancy compared to those others old building materials
I congratulate you for sharing your experiences and this new way of building, greetings
Can anyone confirm that they've experienced one of these homes and they really are mold resistant? I'm worried that none exist more than 5 years old to really know
We have wall measurements through north wall and south wall of the home which measure through the exterior wall both heat flow as well as humidity levels at different locations of the JBF blocks. The wall automatically breaths the humidity through which means that there is no condensation point anywhere, as there is no vapour barrier! Mold only forms when humidity turns to condensation of water, thus having 100 % humidity. In real life the measured humidity of our exterior walls throughout the year within the wall does not go above about around 70 %.
@@arnokeinonen8331 Okay thanks very much. Do you know if I could hire someone to build one of these?
There are hempcrete buildings dating back 1000 or more years
There's your REAL baby boomers folks!! GO boomers! :)
rich folks sho live good.
... apart from that before they moved into this HUGE footprint home there was Nature there. It is a good build, but to call it harmless it should have gone on a different spot
Not to mention the size in general is absurd. No reason for such a large size for 2 elderly people.
I know from my career experience that one has to start change by doing something that people who can afford to fund the change want. There are many small very eco friendly homes which do indeed have a very low eco footprint. Yet, none of those have made any difference in the larger scale of home construction. This is why we chose to built a home which would be desirable to ones who can AND WILL fund the adoption of this very eco friendly solution into the main line construction industry,
@@MrsHyphenate Sorry but you obviously do not know us, nor the specifics of what, why and how we have done. Please come by and see this I will gladly show tell you (virus situation allowing), how and why our home is a very powerful step in converting life into the one earth footprint level. We are in our retirement are busier than when working! We have in our home both an art studio and an office for me as well as two guest bedrooms!
@@arnokeinonen8331 that being true, it would still have been better to rework some space that wasn't natural before. This can definitely be called an improvement to many other luxury houses! But "harmless" implies a much higher standard.
I'm not saying it's bad, just that it isn't what it's called and that's sorta misleading.
Merry upcoming Advent :)
House could have been an apartment building for about 10 families, located in an urban area where affordable housing is needed instead of creating yet another huge fucking human footprint on a beautiful natural area. Who cares if it was built with hemp? The trees and plants and animals that were there before were much more "eco-friendly" and harmless.
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Wait, I'm confused. I thought pooping in water was not a good thing...
Why do two people need such a huge house? It would be even more "harmless" if it was small. Need more trees and less roof area on that property.
sure the product is somewhat eco green, but the design, concept , location and lifestyle are very problematic Huge ego involved here, this is a house for an elderly couple......but what does one do after reaping a fortune out of the ground, capitalising on the oil business for a lifetime. Mine ,mine mine, me, me , me. So proud of the accomplishment. Where i live in desolation sound, the bluff ecosystem is critically endangered by people building in the habitat. plants and animals rely on those areas.< it is the only home for them.Look at the driveway, and the foundation for this house, they have cut and excavated a huge area, lots of diesel fuel burned to do that. And they will always need one , probably two, four wheel drive large suv's to get up that hill, The practical trend for this demographic, is to have a condo in the city somewhere, because the home is so isolated and not sustainable on a social interaction/emotional level. This is not part of their life. Feel so sorry for them, and that demographic has ruled the world , to this point!!?. Lots of plastic in that house, and a huge work crew, driving there everyday, ultra green certification requires that we look at those effects as well, it all counts!
the technology involved is surprisingly complex, and has a short lifespan, lots of unrecyclable in the end. relying on tech to save the world is insane, this house is a good example of this. after our tech lifestyle has destroyed the earth, we rely on it to save it???? We all need to live simpler, local lifestyles, in community, sharing.