b'SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGFROM HEMPTO HOMET O P C a r b o n C a p t u r e p u r s u e s a s u s t a i n a b l e h o m e - b u i l d i n g s t r a t e g y w i t h a b y p r o d u c t o f h e m pBy Matthew BradfordW hen it became obviousI wanted to find a building material thataims to use hemp-based building mate-thathis75-year-oldwas accessible and sustainable enoughrials to create sustainable and afford-uncleshomewasto allow everybody to be able to live in aable homes and facilities for Indigenous apotentiallylife- healthy home thats nonflammable andand rural communities.threateningdangermould resistant.to him, Joel Marriott saw a potentialMarriott and his wife, Mary Mason, sawMarriotts initial research pointed him solution. My uncle was living in a housethe need for a more effective, eco-that had some of its flooring and wallsin the direction of hempcrete bricks, a friendly, and community-based solutionbuilding material produced by mixing cut out. Every time it froze, his pipesto housing in Marriotts community of would burst or freeze, which led to theWhite Bear First Nation in Saskatchewan.hemp shiv (a discarded part of the hemp risk of mould and fire hazards, MarriottThis became the impetus for their busi- plants stalk when making hemp fibre) recalls. His house was deteriorating fast.ness, TOP Carbon Capture Inc., whichwith water, lime and otheradditives.26A CCIB PUBLICATIONSummer 2024'