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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Construction - In a perfect world every person would plant the garden to comprehend the dear technique of creating the sustainance we depend on. So too will it be ideal when we each knew the craft to build our very own dwellings, in the sustainable way, from the earth as well as the Earth, in the kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not merely 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 reputation earth stewardship, environmental consciousness and a strong belief in sustainable communities, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands to their work throughout the Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a diploma in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where younger crowd helped start NAU Recycles. He continued this environmentally-based entrepreneurial spirit by employed by, 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 your clay soils with the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona with his wife, Robin, and will continue 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 methods to new and old homes out from the world's most energy efficient and durable material: earth; now expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to construct their very own.

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

It's All inside the Shape

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

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

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple mix of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mix will then be laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud to the desired brick configuration. The form is lifted off of the adobe when the mud dries enough to help keep the adobes shape without the form. Following a day or two associated with, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process will take from one to four weeks to totally cure according to climate conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks having a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are very exactly the same. They provide to get a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in a finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and people with difficult access, site made adobes often work best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has made bricks from the 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 really are a combination of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents which come from natural, non-toxic oxides and ochre mineral pigments. The plasters create stunning moods of their very own, and a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

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

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

Adobe - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yankee 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.

Complete

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

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

Beyond Adobe's soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; using knowledge in good design, coupled 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 that true DYI Owner/Builder, or just individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, that is long lasting, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops begin with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 throughout the Verde Valley, bringing the heart of the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a selection of workshop opportunities like a green building educational resource, and it has taught all age groups and skill 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 also the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication information, scholarship opportunities, or to register, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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