First hemp insulated home built in Kelowna, B.C. – Okanagan [Video]

Houses aren’t made from just brick and mortar anymore and the home-building industry is looking to take advantage of the cannabis craze.

A home in the Wilden neighbourhood of Kelowna, B.C., has been built using only hemp insulation by the Wilden Group.

“One of the benefits of the hemp insulation is it doesn’t compress quite as much as pink fibreglass insulation,” said Josh Smith, The Wilden Group, director of construction. “It also has rigidity.”

This house is the first of its kind in Kelowna and it’s making strides in the race to find more sustainable materials to build with.

“It’s important that we start building for the future which means get the energy demand down of the house and get the embodied carbon down, so think material,” said Karin Eger-Blenk, The Wilden Group CEO.

The hemp insulation absorbs more carbon than it emits and keeps the home warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer, …