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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Design - In the perfect world everyone would plant the garden to know the precious process of allowing the sustainance we rely on. Also will it be ideal as we each knew the craft of creating our own dwellings, in the sustainable way, from your earth and for the Earth, in a type of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not only the Name, however the History

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

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a qualification in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where he also 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 managing a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe from the clay soils with the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona together 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 solutions to new and old homes out of the world's most energy efficient and sturdy material: earth; now expands to providing people with their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to construct their own.

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 both urban and rural projects. They love working with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. During a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the truly amazing pleasure of adding your bathroom accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for the Arts.

It's All within the Shape

Beyond Adobe is likely to 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 will use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, based on the client and circumstances.

Brick - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made 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 completely dry and prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and much more efficient installation for their uniformity of configuration. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be made in all seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Handmade, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple combination of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. A combination will then be laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud in to the desired brick shape and size. The shape is lifted off of the adobe once the mud dries enough to help keep the adobes shape without the form. Following a day or two of sunshine, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process can take from to one month to totally cure according to conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks having a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are very exactly the same. They provide for any unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in the finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and the ones 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 are a mixture 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 of their own, plus 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 when applying within their completed form. They're extremely energy efficient and help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. Also, they are non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and easily 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 both for adobe and straw bale walls. Additionally, it can also function as beautiful final plaster.

Brick - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured in, and ultizing materials from, the United States, 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 structure plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, as well as the installing of bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range between 450 to 1650 sq . ft .. Home plans come fully developed effortlessly necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to break ground. 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 for the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's true love is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; making use of their knowledge in good design, coupled with efficient utilization 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 that true DYI Owner/Builder, or simply individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be resilient, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new number 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 from the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a number of workshop opportunities being a green building educational resource, and has taught all age brackets and skill levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the entire Southwest, plus school children in Northern Arizona, secondary school teachers in Southern Arizona, as well as 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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