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Adobe Brick & Building Workshops Launch in the Verde Valley
by Annabel V Sclippa

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Building - In a perfect world everybody would plant a garden to know the precious technique of creating the sustainance we depend on. So too might it be ideal when we each knew the craft of building our very own dwellings, inside a sustainable way, in the earth and for the Earth, in the form of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for upwards of Twenty years, is offering this making use of their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not merely the Name, however the History

Beyond Adobe is definitely an adobe block, also known as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company focusing on earthen-based methods and materials. Their good reputation for earth stewardship, environmental consciousness plus a strong belief in sustainable communities, comes from their base in Sedona, and expands within their work throughout the Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a degree in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where also, he helped start NAU Recycles. He continued this environmentally-based entrepreneurial spirit by doing work for, and creating, new ventures from building the Sedona Community Recycling Center to starting and owning a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe from the clay soils from the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona with his wife, Robin, and is constantly on the expand Beyond Adobe's outreach in services and classes.

Building Homes Not Houses

Beyond Adobe's goal is to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable answers to old and new homes out of the world's most power efficient and durable material: earth; and now expands to providing people with their greatest tool of: knowledge, to build their particular.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, New Mexico. They regularly work throughout the American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for urban and rural projects. They enjoy dealing with individuals and communities alike to produce, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, that they had the great pleasure of adding your bathroom addition to the now expanded Old Town Center for that Arts.

It's all regulated inside the Shape

Beyond Adobe will make any size, shape, or form of adobe brick you desire, and it is able to make custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to meet architectural demands. They will use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, based on the client and circumstances.

Design - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured employing a mixture of modern day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by making use of hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost completely dry and ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in the compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker plus more efficient installation for their uniformity of configuration. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which boosts the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in most seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple combination of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. The mixture will be laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud into the desired brick size and shape. The shape is lifted off the adobe when the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape without the form. Following a day or two regarding, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process can take from to four weeks to fully cure based on climate conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks using a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks can be the same. They offer for any unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed inside a finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and those with difficult access, site made adobes often perform best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has created bricks from your borderlands of Mexico for the farm country of Montana.

Finished to Fine Perfection

Earth plasters and natural clay plasters bring beautiful, appealing finishes of nature to adobe walls. Earth plasters are a combination of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents that can come from natural, non-toxic oxides and ochre mineral pigments. The plasters create stunning moods that belongs to them, plus a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and green in the their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then dependable when applying inside their completed form. They are extremely energy-efficient and help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the wintertime. Also, they are non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and simply repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their particular true, earth plaster. The plaster could be partially stabilized with lime or Portland cement. This earth plaster makes excellent base coats for both adobe and straw bale walls. Furthermore, additionally, it may work as beautiful final plaster.

Design - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yank Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured in, and ultizing materials from, the usa, American Clay uses natural clays, recycled and reclaimed aggregates and vibrant natural pigments.

Full Service

Beyond Adobe provides sub-contract services to contractors and Owner/Builders, so that you may construct your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, plus the installing bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe also offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range from 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come adult with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can get started. In the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or perhaps the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and all things in between, these house plans take into consideration land placement, views, and functionality to the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's true love is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, along with efficient use of resources and self-sufficiency strategies. As adobe brick makers, they take great pride and dedication to maintaining and preserving the indigenous methods and materials of earth building.

DYI

For your true DYI Owner/Builder, or perhaps people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be resilient, fire resistent and gorgeous, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start out with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 throughout the Verde Valley, bringing the heart with the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a selection of workshop opportunities as a green building educational resource, and it has taught all age ranges and skill levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the Southwest, plus youngsters in Northern Arizona, high school teachers in Southern Arizona, and also the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication information, scholarship opportunities, or to sign up, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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