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NESEA Green Building Pro Tour: Cape Cod Hemp House, May 20, Harwich Port, MA
Event Description
This May Pro Tour will showcase a recently built hemplime-insulated home on Cape Cod. The project team is eager to share their collaborative approach for creating a home that met their client’s vision for a net-zero, storm-resistant, healthy materials home.
Attendees of this tour will learn how non-standard materials and decisions around mechanical systems were used to dramatically reduce the carbon footprint and to improve the health and performance of the house. As part of a larger goal to use all foam-free insulation materials and to avoid materials in the Living Building Challenge Red List, hemplime insulation was used at the roofs and walls and installed with a high-yield spray system used for the first time here in North America.
Attendees will also learn about:
the energy analysis and mechanical systems, designed to make this a net zero home
Strategies to maximize daylighting/passive gain and natural ventilation
Pier foundation system to aid in raising house for future flood resistance
Wood braces for lateral support, in place of sheathing
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