“…One such alternative material is bio-based building composites (Jones & Brischke, 2017) (also referred as bio-aggregate composites (Williams et al, 2018) or agro-concretes (Amziane, 2016) in which plant-based materials such as bagasse (Hernández-Olivares et al, 2020), bamboo (Ghavami, 2005), coconut (Kanojia & Jain, 2017), cork (Panesar & Shindman, 2012), corn stalk (Ahmad & Chen, 2020), flax (Benmahiddine et al, 2020), hemp (Jami et al, 2016), lavender (Ratiarisoa et al, 2016), palm shell (Huda et al, 2016), sunflower (Wadi et al, 2019), or wheat straw (Petrella et al, 2019) have been used as aggregate and mixed with a mineral binder such as cement (Çomak et al, 2018;da Gloria et al, 2021;Gourlay et al, 2017;Sedan et al, 2008), lime (Williams et al, 2017), hydraulic lime (Youssef et al, 2015), various pozzolans (Dinh et al, 2012;Walker & Pavia, 2012) or combination of these (Barbieri et al, 2020;Rahim et al, 2016). In recent years, there is a growing interest on the use of geopolymer binders for the production of plant-based composites (Korniejenko et al, 2018;Narattha et al, 2022;Sáez-Pérez et al, 2021). Among these, hemp-based composites (hempcrete, hemp-lime composites or hemp concretes) have gained increasing interest owing to the high strength and durability of hemp stems since the development of hemp composites at the beginning of 19th century.…”