As a developer and builder of high-efficiency homes, Karin Eger-Blenk says she is always on the lookout for ways to reduce her company’s carbon footprint.
That’s why the Wilden Group CEO recently decided to incorporate hemp insulation into one of the homes in the company’s 1,500-acre master-planned community just outside of Kelowna.
“I asked our construction team if we could have an alternative insulation material that would be carbon-negative, and this is how we actually discovered hemp insulation,” she said. “We were just basically exploring what’s out there, and hemp seems to be the most sustainable material.”
Wilden’s “hemp house” is now among the first net-zero-ready homes with hemp insulation in B.C.,
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