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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Environment - In the perfect world everybody would plant an outdoor to comprehend the dear procedure for allowing the sustainance we count on. So too will it be ideal when we each knew the craft of creating our very own dwellings, in a sustainable way, from the earth but for the Earth, in a kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not only the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is surely 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, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands within their work through the 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 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 will continue to 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 from the world's most energy efficient and durable material: earth; and today 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, New Mexico. They regularly work through the entire American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for both urban and rural projects. They love dealing with individuals and communities alike to build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, that they had the truly amazing pleasure of adding a bathroom addition to the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

It's all regulated within the Shape

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

Adobe - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured utilizing a mix of present 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, both in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and more efficient installation for their uniformity of shape and size. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in all seasons due to the reduced moisture content.

Handmade, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple mixture of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mixture will be laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud in to the desired brick shape and size. The proper execution is lifted from the adobe when the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape without the form. Following a day or two of sunshine, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process will take in one to one month to completely cure based on conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks using a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are quite exactly the same. They offer to get a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in the 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 makes bricks from your 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 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 eco-friendly in the their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe to use when applying within their completed form. They're extremely power efficient that assist 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 simply repairable.

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

Earth - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of yank Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and ultizing 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 you may make your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing from the bond beams, as well as the installation of bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. Your home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range from 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come full-grown with all necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to get started. From the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or perhaps the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and my way through between, these house plans take into account 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, coupled with efficient usage 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 simply people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, which is long-lasting, fire resistent and gorgeous, Beyond Adobe has launched their new number 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 from the company to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a selection of workshop opportunities like a green building educational resource, and has taught all age ranges and skill levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the entire Southwest, plus school children in Northern Arizona, high school teachers in Southern Arizona, and also the Crow Nation in Montana. For class 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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