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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Dirt - In a perfect world everybody would plant the garden to know the dear process of allowing the sustainance we rely on. Also will it be ideal when we each knew the craft of creating our own dwellings, in a sustainable way, in the earth and for the Earth, in the form of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not only the Name, however the History

Beyond Adobe is definitely an adobe block, also known as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company devoted to earthen-based methods and materials. Their good reputation for 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 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 working 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 the clay soils of the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona with his wife, Robin, and will continue 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 answers to new and old homes out of the world's most power efficient and durable material: earth; now expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of all: knowledge, to create their very 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 dealing with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the truly amazing pleasure of adding your bathroom accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

It's all regulated within the Shape

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

Adobe - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created using a mixture of modern day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost 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 configuration. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which boosts the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in most seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Handmade, or puddled, adobe bricks begin when a simple mixture of earth and water is mixed to some near mud consistency. The mix is then laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud to the desired brick shape and size. The form is lifted off of the adobe once the mud dries enough to help keep the adobes shape minus the form. After having a few days regarding, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process may take from one to one month to totally cure according to climate conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks with a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are very exactly the same. They provide 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 perform best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has made bricks in the borderlands of Mexico to 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 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 own, and a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and eco-friendly in both their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then dependable when applying within their completed form. They may be extremely power efficient and help control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the wintertime. Also, they are 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 both for adobe and straw bale walls. In addition, it can also work as beautiful final plaster.

Earth - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and using 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 may construct your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing through the bond beams, along with the installing bucks and lentils, if required.

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 adult with all necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should break ground. From the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or 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 towards 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, 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 the true DYI Owner/Builder, or just people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be long-lasting, fire resistent and gorgeous, Beyond Adobe has launched their new series 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 center with the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a selection of workshop opportunities being a green building educational resource, and has taught all age ranges and skill levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the Southwest, plus school children in Northern Arizona, secondary school teachers in Southern Arizona, and the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication information, scholarship opportunities, or 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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