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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Arizona - Inside a perfect world everybody would plant a garden to understand the dear technique of creating the sustainance we depend on. Also will it be ideal when we each knew the craft to build our own dwellings, in a sustainable way, from the earth and for the Earth, inside a kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not merely the Name, however the History

Beyond Adobe is 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 along with a strong belief in sustainable communities, is due to their base in Sedona, and expands within 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 running 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 along 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; 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 entire American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for urban and rural projects. They love working together with individuals and communities alike to produce, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the fantastic pleasure of adding your bathroom addition to the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

To make sure within the Shape

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

Construction - Pressed adobe blocks, commonly known as as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured utilizing a mixture of present day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost completely dry and ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, both in 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 most seasons due to the reduced moisture content.

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple combination of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. A combination will be laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud into the desired brick size and shape. The proper execution is lifted off of the adobe if the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape with no form. Following a few days regarding, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process may take from one to a month to fully cure based on climate conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks using a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are quite the identical. They supply for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed inside a 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 makes 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 that come from natural, non-toxic oxides and ochre mineral pigments. The plasters create stunning moods that belongs to them, and 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 dependable when applying within their completed form. They are extremely energy-efficient which help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in Winter. 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. In addition, additionally, it may function as beautiful final plaster.

Workshops - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Produced 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 that you may make your adobe walls per your building plans. Construction services include footing from the bond beams, as well as the installation of bucks and lentils, if needed.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range from 450 to 1650 sq . ft .. Home plans come fully developed effortlessly necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should break ground. From your 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 real love is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, along with efficient usage of resources and self-sufficiency strategies. As adobe brick makers, they take great pride and commitment 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 long-lasting, fire resistent and gorgeous, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group 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 one's heart of the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a variety of workshop opportunities as 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 youngsters in Northern Arizona, senior high school teachers in Southern Arizona, as well as the Crow Nation in Montana. For class information, scholarship opportunities, in order to register, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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