Atlas City Project

Hey all,

i am a Systems Architect of about 12 years experience.

I worked as an IT architect for banks, energy, pharma on global projects. Managed team up to 75 developers spanning 3 countries. In charge of 30 million USD annual turnover.

Last 3 years i stopped working as an IT Systems Architect and went back to being a Building Architect. This is what i studied at University, with my 2 year Thesis on Embodied Energy Analysis with the CSIRO Australian Government Research Laboratory. I was working with leading scientist on hydrogen fuel cells and Solar Hydrogen conversion equipment prototyping. That was 15 years ago, and even then the technology was viable.

I started building using tilt up concrete sandwich panel, and recently hemp based building.
I crunched the numbers for hemp and worked with some PHD students studying Hemp in Sweden.
You can built 80% of a home using hemp, with lime and polozoic ash. Yes its EASY to make your own "hemp crete".
An area of about 300m2 with hemp growing on 8 week cycle (which is normal up to 45 degrees off the equator) will give you enough hemp.
Hemp is used for: floor plate, walls, roof.

If i can help let me know.

Regards

Gerard

I've been responding to the personal emails and forgot to say Welcome

Hiya Gerard welcome to Atlas! I look forward to working with you

welcome. always happy to see more brains popping up around here