Hemp for a healthy and sustainable building in Abruzzo, in Intelligent Human System Integration

We present a research work concerning bio and eco-compatible materials
and focused on the use of hemp in building. The work is developed both
in the research and training activities, in relationship with the local market.
Hemp is a biomaterial with high characteristics of eco-compatibility, but in the
considered contest (the Abruzzo region) these potentialities for a highly sustainable
life cycle cannot be exploited because there aren’t local productions.
Therefore the principal purpose of our work is to promote the diffusion of a
healthy architecture (through an appropriate redevelopment of the existing
buildings) and a real local production able to give economic repercussion, in an
agricultural-industrial-building symbiosis. This will be done by specifying the
well-being performance of hemp products and individuating and overcoming
the criticalities of the current practices. So we want to develop a model aiming
to the human health safeguard and the economic and social sustainability (circular
economy).