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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Design - Inside a perfect world everybody would plant an outdoor to understand the valuable process of allowing the sustainance we rely on. Also might it be ideal if we each knew the craft of building our own dwellings, in the sustainable way, from your earth but for the Earth, in a kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not Just the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is surely an adobe block, also called adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company specializing in earthen-based methods and materials. Their history of earth stewardship, environmental consciousness and a strong belief in sustainable communities, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands into their work throughout the Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a degree in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where also, he 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 running a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe from your clay soils of 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 to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable methods to old and new homes out of the world's most power efficient and sturdy material: earth; and now expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to build their very own.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, Boise state broncos. They regularly work through the entire American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for urban and rural projects. They love working with individuals and communities alike to produce, preserve and restore earth buildings. During a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the truly amazing pleasure of adding your bathrooms accessory for 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 form of adobe brick you would like, and is also creating custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to fulfill architectural demands. They use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, with respect to the client and circumstances.

Environment - Pressed adobe blocks, commonly known as as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made employing a mixture of modern day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by making use of hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost completely dry and ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in the 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 created in every seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple mixture of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mix 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 keep the adobes shape with no form. Following a day or two of sunshine, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process may take in one to four weeks to totally cure based on conditions. Puddled adobes bring about bricks with a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are quite the identical. They offer for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in the finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and those with difficult access, site made adobes often perform best 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 certainly are a blend 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, along with a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and environmentally friendly both in 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 that assist control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in Winter. They're also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and easily repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their 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.

Block - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Produced in, and taking advantage of materials from, the usa, 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 you may construct your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing through the bond beams, along with the installation of bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 square feet. Home plans come adult with all necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can break ground. In the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or even 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 guide clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, coupled 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 just individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, which is resilient, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new number of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 through the entire Verde Valley, bringing the heart of the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a number of workshop opportunities as a green building educational resource, and possesses taught all age ranges and skill levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders throughout the Southwest, plus school children in Northern Arizona, secondary school teachers in Southern Arizona, and the Crow Nation in Montana. For class information, scholarship opportunities, in order 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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