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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Sustainable - In the perfect world every person would plant a garden to comprehend the valuable process of creating the sustainance we depend on. So too might it be ideal if we each knew the craft to build our personal dwellings, in a sustainable way, in the earth as well as the Earth, inside a kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for upwards of 20 years, is providing this using their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not Just the Name, however the History

Beyond Adobe is an adobe block, also referred to as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company specializing in earthen-based methods and materials. Their reputation earth stewardship, environmental consciousness along with a strong belief in sustainable communities, comes from 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 also, he 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 your clay soils from the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona along 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 would be to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable methods to old and new homes out of the world's most energy efficient and sturdy material: earth; now expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of all: knowledge, to construct their own.

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

It's All within the Shape

Beyond Adobe can make any size, shape, or kind of adobe brick you would like, and is 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, based on the client and circumstances.

Dirt - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured using a combination of present day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced through the use of hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost dry and prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in the compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and more efficient installation because of their uniformity of shape and size. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which boosts the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be produced in every seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple mixture of earth and water is mixed to some near mud consistency. The mixture will be laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud to the desired brick configuration. The shape is lifted from the adobe when the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape with no form. After a day or two regarding, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process may take from one to one month to completely cure depending on climate conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks using a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are quite exactly the same. They supply to get a 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 work best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has created bricks in the borderlands of Mexico towards 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 mixture of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents which 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 in the their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe to use when applying within their completed form. They may be extremely energy efficient and help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. They are also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and simply 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, additionally, it may function as beautiful final plaster.

Design - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and taking advantage of 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 you may make your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing from the bond beams, plus the installing bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 square feet. Home plans come full-grown with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to break ground. From your fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or even 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 real love is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; making use of their knowledge in good design, along with efficient utilization 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 the true DYI Owner/Builder, or perhaps people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, which is long-lasting, fire resistent and lovely, Beyond Adobe has launched their new series 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 from the company returning to its roots.

Beyond Adobe supplies a number of workshop opportunities like a green building educational resource, and possesses taught all age brackets and skill levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the Southwest, plus young children in Northern Arizona, secondary school teachers in Southern Arizona, and also the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication information, scholarship opportunities, in order to join, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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