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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Eco - In a perfect world everybody would plant a garden to understand the precious process of allowing the sustainance we depend on. So too will it be ideal as we each knew the craft of creating our personal dwellings, in the sustainable way, in the earth and for the Earth, inside a form of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not merely the Name, but 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 history of earth stewardship, environmental consciousness along with a strong belief in sustainable communities, comes 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 also, he 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 in the clay soils with the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona 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 always to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to new and old homes out from the world's most energy-efficient and sturdy material: earth; and now expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of all: knowledge, to construct their particular.

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, for both urban and rural projects. They enjoy working together with individuals and communities alike to produce, preserve and restore earth buildings. Within a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, that they had the great pleasure of adding your bathrooms addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

To make sure inside the Shape

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

Workshops - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created 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 prepared 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 raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be made in every seasons because of 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. The mixture will be laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud into the desired brick configuration. The form is lifted off of the adobe once the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape minus the form. After a day or two regarding, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process may take in one to four weeks to fully cure according to weather conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks using a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are quite the same. They supply 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 created 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 certainly 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 of their own, plus 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 to use when applying inside their completed form. They are extremely energy efficient which 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 simply 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 adobe and straw bale walls. In addition, additionally, it may work as beautiful final plaster.

Environment - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of yank Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured in, and taking advantage of materials from, america, 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 that you will may make your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing through the bond beams, as well as the installation of bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 sq . ft .. Home plans come fully developed with all necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can get started. In 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 consideration land placement, views, and functionality for the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, combined with efficient use 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 your true DYI Owner/Builder, or perhaps people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, which is long-lasting, fire resistent and beautiful, 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 the heart from the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe supplies a selection of workshop opportunities like a green building educational resource, and has taught all age groups and talent 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 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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