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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Environment - In the perfect world everyone would plant the garden to comprehend the precious procedure for creating the sustainance we rely on. Also would it be ideal if we each knew the craft to build our own dwellings, in the sustainable way, from your earth as well as the Earth, inside a type of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for more than Two decades, is offering this with their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not only the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is definitely an adobe block, also referred to as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company devoted to earthen-based methods and materials. Their history of earth stewardship, environmental consciousness plus a strong belief in sustainable communities, is due to their base in Sedona, and expands to their work through the entire Southwest.

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

Building Homes Not Houses

Beyond Adobe's goal is to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to old and new homes from the world's most energy efficient and sturdy material: earth; and now expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of all: knowledge, to create their particular.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, Boise state broncos. They regularly work through the entire American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for both urban and rural projects. They like working together with individuals and communities alike to produce, preserve and restore earth buildings. Within a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the truly amazing pleasure of adding your bathrooms addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for the Arts.

To make sure inside the Shape

Beyond Adobe can make any size, shape, or kind of adobe brick you desire, and is also able to make custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to fulfill architectural demands. They use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, with respect to the client and circumstances.

Environment - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made using a mix of modern-day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced through the use of hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost 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 due to their uniformity of configuration. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which increases the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in all seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple mixture of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. The mix will then be laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud in to the desired brick configuration. The shape is lifted off the adobe if the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape without the form. After having a few days associated with, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process may take in one to one month to totally cure based on weather conditions. Puddled adobes bring about bricks using a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are quite exactly the same. They offer for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed inside a finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and people with difficult access, site made adobes often perform best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe makes bricks from the borderlands of Mexico to 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 blend 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, along with a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and environmentally friendly both in their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe to use when applying in their completed form. They are extremely power efficient that assist control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. They're also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their particular true, earth plaster. The plaster may be partially stabilized with lime or Portland cement. This earth plaster makes excellent base coats for adobe and straw bale walls. Additionally, it can also serve as beautiful final plaster.

Workshops - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured in, and using materials from, america, American Clay uses natural clays, recycled and reclaimed aggregates and vibrant natural pigments.

Complete

Beyond Adobe provides sub-contract services to contractors and Owner/Builders, so that you may make your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing through the bond beams, as well as the installing of bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe also offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 square feet. Home plans come fully developed effortlessly necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should get started. From the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or even the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and everything in between, these house plans consider land placement, views, and functionality towards the eco-friendly max.

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

DYI

For that true DYI Owner/Builder, or simply people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, that is long lasting, fire resistent and gorgeous, Beyond Adobe has launched their new number of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 throughout the Verde Valley, bringing the heart of the company returning to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a variety of workshop opportunities as a green building educational resource, and possesses taught all age groups and talent levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders throughout the Southwest, plus youngsters in Northern Arizona, senior high school teachers in Southern Arizona, and the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication information, scholarship opportunities, or join, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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