Professional
Certificate in
HempLime Engineering
IRC 2024 Appendix BL now gives hemp-lime a place in the International Residential Code. California adopted it. Your clients will start asking. Almost no professional is trained to sign it off. This certificate gets you ready before they ask.
The HempLime Engineering Certificate is an 11-module online course that teaches engineers, builders and designers to design, specify and cost hemp-lime construction to IRC 2024 Appendix BL and ASTM references. Enrolment is AUD $199 through the Industrial Hemp Science Academy.
One HempLime project earns you AUD $8,000 to $18,000 in novel-scope fees. This certificate costs AUD $199. That is not a typo. It is a decision to build the first generation of certified HempLime engineers, and you are invited to be one of them.
The code is ahead of the workforce by years. That gap is the opportunity.
Appendix BL handed the industry a prescriptive hemp-lime pathway. Almost no professionals are trained to use it. The distance between what the code allows and what practitioners can deliver is where your next fee comes from.
Two practices. Same market. Different next three years.
The practice that waits
- Turns away hemp-lime enquiries because nobody on the team can sign them off
- Watches a competitor collect the novel-scope fees and the case studies
- Learns the code later, from someone else's mistakes, at full price
The practice that moves first
- Answers the enquiry with a code-referenced mix design and submittal package
- Bills AUD $8,000 to $18,000 in novel-scope work on the first project
- Owns the reference projects when the market scales
Not a builder's course.
A professional engineering credential.
"The industry now has a code-recognised pathway for HempLime. The professionals to use it do not yet exist at scale. This certificate is built to change that, rigorously and credibly."
Three steps from enrolment to your first billable project.
Enrol and start today
Instant access to all 11 modules and the Handbook. Pay once, keep it for life. No subscription.
Learn the code pathway
Mix design, structure, wall assemblies, QA and the submittal package, using the four proprietary frameworks as templates.
Bill your first project
Mix design report, compliance submittal, pre-pour inspection and QA sign-off. Four fee lines that did not exist in your practice before.
11 modules. From first principles
to professional practice.
35 years. 14 countries.
Project teams that delivered USD $100B+ in assets.
Before building this curriculum, Ramon spent 35 years in engineering, procurement and construction management across oil, gas, mining and infrastructure in 14 countries, as part of project management teams that delivered more than USD $100B in large and complex assets.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology and is a member of Engineers Australia under the Washington Accord. The same discipline applied to refineries and plants is applied here, to a material that now has a code pathway.
"I moved into hemp because it deserves the same professional rigour we apply to concrete, steel and timber. This course is that rigour, applied from first principles."
Ramon is the founder of Hemp Engineering Pty Ltd (hempengineering.net) and the Industrial Hemp Science Academy (industrialhempscience.com), and the author of the HempLime Engineering Handbook.
Every number. Every source.
Every evidentiary strength rating.
Built for the professional
who delivers real projects.
Engineers and Architects
- Stamp a HempLime submittal with confidence
- Navigate the IRC 2024 Appendix BL pathway
- Write a defensible performance data package
- Apply frame-first structural discipline correctly
Developers and Builders
- Understand the true lifecycle cost advantage
- Document carbon performance for ESG reporting
- Choose the placement method that fits your programme
- Hold the QA conversation with your engineer
Investors and Consultants
- Evaluate HempLime businesses with technical rigour
- Understand the carbon market opportunity
- Assess supply chain and regulatory readiness
- Frame the market gap as an investment thesis
AUD $199 is not what
this certificate is worth.
It is what founding candidates pay to build the first cohort. Here is what one completed HempLime project is worth to a licensed professional.
One residential HempLime project can generate AUD $8,000 to $18,000 in novel-scope engineering fees, on top of your standard structural fee. Your first project can repay this certificate 40 to 90 times over.
Once the first 100 candidates are certified and in the market with projects, submittals and case studies, the price goes up. This is not a cheap course. It is a strategically underpriced credential for the professionals who move first.
Launch pricing. First 100 enrolments only.
The founding price will not stay here. Be among the first candidates to build this field.
Secure Your Place at AUD $199Everything you need
to deliver HempLime projects.
- 11 video modules, full curriculum
- HempLime Engineering Handbook
- 4 proprietary frameworks™
- Professional certificate
- HempSeed Latitude Matcher
- Industry intelligence appendices
- Lifetime access and updates
Before you enrol.
This certificate is one course inside the Industrial Hemp Science Academy.
Hemp science, engineering, construction, biofuel and more, in English and Spanish. Browse every course and build the full skill set behind the industry.
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If you have a live hemp-lime project and need engineering support, Hemp Engineering takes on consultancy work directly. Tell us what you are building.
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The code is ready.
The market is open.
Are you?
Appendix BL is in the IRC. The professionals who can deliver HempLime construction do not yet exist at scale. Be among the first to change that.
Enrol Now · AUD $199 →Talk to Ramon directly.
Questions about the certificate, your jurisdiction, or whether this fits your practice? Reach out personally.