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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Construction - In the perfect world everybody would plant an outdoor to know the dear process of allowing the sustainance we depend on. So too would it be ideal if we each knew the craft of building our own dwellings, inside a sustainable way, from the earth and for the Earth, in the type of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not only the Name, nevertheless the History

Beyond Adobe is definitely an adobe block, also referred to as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company specializing in 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 into their work through the entire Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a degree in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where younger crowd 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 the 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 would be to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to old and new homes from the world's most energy efficient and durable material: earth; and today expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to construct their particular.

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

It's all regulated inside the Shape

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

Design - Pressed adobe blocks, commonly known as as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created using 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, in the compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker plus more efficient installation for their uniformity of shape and size. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which increases the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in every seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin when a simple combination of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. The mix is then laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud in to the desired brick configuration. The form is lifted off the adobe if the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape with no form. After having a day or two regarding, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process will take from to four weeks to fully cure depending on weather conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks having a more individual shape, size and look; no two bricks can be the same. They supply to get 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 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 mixture of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents that come from natural, non-toxic oxides and ochre mineral pigments. The plasters create stunning moods of their very own, along with a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and eco-friendly both in their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe to use when applying in their completed form. They're extremely energy efficient that assist control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the wintertime. They're also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their 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. Furthermore, additionally, it may serve as beautiful final plaster.

Brick - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and taking advantage of materials from, the United States, 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 will may build your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, as well as the installing of bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 sq . ft .. Home plans come fully developed effortlessly necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to get started. From the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or even the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and everything in between, these house plans take into account land placement, views, and functionality for the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's true love is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; making use of their knowledge in good design, combined with efficient use 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 perhaps individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, which is resilient, fire resistent and gorgeous, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group 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 Verde Valley, bringing the heart with the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a variety of workshop opportunities as a green building educational resource, and has taught all age groups and talent levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders throughout the Southwest, plus youngsters in Northern Arizona, high school teachers in Southern Arizona, as well as the Crow Nation in Montana. For class information, scholarship opportunities, or to join, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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