Professor comes to Byron Hemp Building Workshop

Aug. 25, 2010 - PRLog -- Marton Marosszeky, Professor of Construction Innovation at University of New South Wales has confirmed his visit to Byron Bay for the Hemp Building Workshop designed to teach the first wave of professional builders, owner builders and enthusiasts how to build a house (or a shed) from hemp.

Professor Marosszeky is very highly regarded in his field having worked on numerous studies for multi-national building and construction corporations. The latest news is a boom for hemp building and certainly boosts the integrity and backing of this truly innovative and sustainable building technique.

Professor Marosszeky was initially skeptical about the use of 'hemp' as a serious building material and probably thought, like many others that it was a fad to support the 'many uses of industrial hemp'.

The announcement that Professor Marosszeky will not only be present at the event, but support the event with his time and advice to participants is a highly valuable and one time bonus to all that attend.

The need for affordable and truly sustainable housing in Australia is really in the hands of those that want it and access to this new and proven technology is very much needed. Builders, architects and self-build enthusiasts are all showing strong interest before this technology is officially launched next year in 2011.

There are still a few (and limited) positions left for this workshop that will involve building much of a small timber and bamboo frame building.

Book now for the Saturday September 4th Workshop by emailing info@thehempbuilder.com or read more at http://www.thehempbuilder.com

And if you cannot make it, please do share this extra-ordinary news with your friends and associates on twitter, facebook, email and, most importantly in person!


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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Everything-Hemp/14041805599...

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