Green Root Concrete is a unique, highly sustainable construction product for the creation of insulating walls as well as insulation layers for floors and roofs. Green Root Concrete is a blend of specially prepared hemp shiv and a special lime based binder. Together these products form a bio-composite building material that can be used both for the creation of buildings that have excellent thermal and acoustic properties as well as creating a healthy living and working environment.

Additionally Green Root Concrete has the ability to make an impact on the future of sustainable building. Helping to reverse the damaging effects of greenhouse gases, Green Root Concrete locks up approximately 110kg of CO₂ per m3 of wall and provides one of the best value materials for low impact, sustainable and commercially viable construction.

Properties:

• Low density
• High thermal insulation
• High sound insulation
• High thermal inertia
• Good vapour permeability
• Good flexibility
• Fire and pest resistant
• Can significantly reduce CO₂ emissions
• Inherently airtight structures
• Low waste

Durability

Green Root Concrete products have physical characteristics that can cope with the flexure that naturally occurs in buildings. The products are rodent, mould and fungus resistant and have excellent fire resistance to conform to current building regulations. The lime based binder has the extended durability common to lime construction products that have easily outlasted their designers.

Aesthetics
Green Root Concrete products provide the possibility for a wide range of excellent quality finishes. The Green Root Concrete render and plaster products can be finished in the normal manner of such products with finishes ranging from as cast to a smooth finish. The Hemp Lime products form an ideal substrate for the application of renders, plasters and decorative products. The tight quality control regimes in manufacture ensure consistency and conformity in the selected final appearance.

Sustainability
Green Root Concrete products are among the most ecologically sound of building products. Hemp does not require agrochemicals in its cultivation. The hemp, in common with all similar plants, transforms carbon dioxide during its rapid growth and captures the carbon, releasing the oxygen to atmosphere.

This has an immediate positive effect in achieving the sequestration of the principal greenhouse gas CO₂

Why use traditional concrete?

Building materials should, wherever possible have the lowest embodied CO₂ emissions and therefore minimise the environmental impact of the build.

In the selection of components such as insulation and windows / doors, environmentally responsible choices are widely available. Where possible building products which have been certified as responsibly produced should be used, where this is not possible then locally produced materials should be used as an alternative. This provides the benefit of supporting the local community and limiting the CO₂ emissions produced in the transport of materials. With regard to the choice of insulation materials, we recommend avoidance of any material with a high global warming potential, this is applicable for roof, wall, floor and pipe insulation.

		Green Root Concrete, the natural alternative to concrete A unique, highly sustainable construction product for the creation of insulating walls as well as insulation layers for floors and roofs. Green Root Concrete is a blend of specially prepared hemp shiv and a special lime based binder. Together these products form a bio-composite building material that can be used both for the creation of buildings that have excellent thermal and acoustic properties as well as creating a healthy living and working environment.
		Insulation: Natural sheep's wool insulation provides a high performance and truly sustainable solution to both consumption of energy and the effects of climate change. Wool is not only a better insulator but it actually generates heat when it absorbs moisture!
		Paint and stains: 100% ecological and made from natural raw materials and offer a radical alternative to paints manufactured with vinyl resins and petrochemical solvents. Our paints offer a healthy and environmentally friendly consumer choice to the many harmful products which dominate the commercial paint market.