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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Block - In the perfect world every person would plant an outdoor to comprehend the dear process of allowing the sustainance we depend on. Also would it be ideal when we each knew the craft of creating our personal dwellings, in a sustainable way, in the earth as well as the Earth, in a kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for upwards of 20 years, offers this making use of their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not Just the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is definitely an adobe block, also called 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 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 younger crowd helped start NAU Recycles. He continued this environmentally-based entrepreneurial spirit by doing work for, 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 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 old and new homes out from the world's most energy-efficient and durable material: earth; and now expands to providing people with their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to create their very 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 urban and rural projects. They love working together with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. During a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the great pleasure of adding your bathroom accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

To make sure in the Shape

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

Earth - Pressed adobe blocks, commonly known as as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created using 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 completely dry and prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, both in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and much more efficient installation due to their uniformity of shape and size. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which boosts the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be produced in all seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Handmade, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple mixture of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. A combination will be laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud in to the desired brick size and shape. The shape is lifted off the adobe if the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape minus the form. After a day or two regarding, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process can take in one to one month to completely 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 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 those with difficult access, site made adobes often work most effectively for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has made bricks in 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 blend 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, along with 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 in 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 could be partially stabilized with lime or Portland cement. This earth plaster makes excellent base coats for adobe and straw bale walls. In addition, it can also work as beautiful final plaster.

Dirt - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yank Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured 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 construct your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, along with the installation of bucks and lentils, if required.

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 for you to get started. 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 take into consideration land placement, views, and functionality towards the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's real love 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 dedication to maintaining and preserving the indigenous methods and materials of earth building.

DYI

For that true DYI Owner/Builder, or simply people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, that is 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 from the company back to its roots.

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