Carlos Bernard explains the uses of Hempcrete blocks
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Student, Faculty of Engineering and Computing, UTech, Carlos Bernard (right), explains the uses of Hempcrete blocks to one of the participants, during a tour of exhibits at the 3rd staging of the Jamaican Medical Cannabis Integration Symposium (JAMECANN 2018), hosted by the College of Health Sciences, UTech, Kingston, on Thursday, July 5, 2018. The objective of the two-day symposium (July 5 and 6) is to showcase the advances that have been made in the Jamaican and International medical cannabis sector, and to provide opportunities for building research networks.
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