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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Environment - In the perfect world everyone would plant an outdoor to understand the dear procedure for allowing the sustainance we count on. So too might it be ideal when we each knew the craft of creating our very own dwellings, in the sustainable way, from the earth as well as the Earth, in the form of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not Just the Name, nevertheless the History

Beyond Adobe is an adobe block, also referred to as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company focusing on earthen-based methods and materials. Their history of earth stewardship, environmental consciousness plus a strong belief in sustainable communities, is due to 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 employed by, 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 of the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona together with his wife, Robin, and continues 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 solutions to new and old homes out from the world's most power efficient and sturdy material: earth; and now expands to providing people with their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to create their own.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, Boise state broncos. They regularly work through the American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, both for urban and rural projects. They like working together with individuals and communities alike to build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. Within a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the great pleasure of adding a bathroom addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for the Arts.

It's all regulated within the Shape

Beyond Adobe can make any size, shape, or kind of adobe brick you would like, and is able to make custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to fulfill architectural demands. They will use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, with respect to the client and circumstances.

Earth - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured using a combination of modern day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced through the use of hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost completely dry and ready 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 increases the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be made in most seasons due to the reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple mixture of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mixture will then be laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud into the desired brick shape and size. The shape is lifted from the adobe when the mud dries enough to help keep the adobes shape minus the form. Following a day or two regarding, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process may take from one to four weeks to completely cure depending on conditions. Puddled adobes bring about bricks having a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks can be the same. They provide for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in a finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and the ones with difficult access, site made adobes often work best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe makes bricks from your 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 really are a combination 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, plus a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and green both in their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe when applying inside their completed form. They may be extremely energy efficient that assist control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. They're also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and 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. Furthermore, it may also work as beautiful final plaster.

Earth - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of American 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.

Full Service

Beyond Adobe provides sub-contract services to contractors and Owner/Builders, so you may build your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing through the bond beams, along with the installing bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe also offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range between 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come adult with all necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can get started. From your 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 consider land placement, views, and functionality to the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's real love is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; making use of their knowledge in good design, along 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 the true DYI Owner/Builder, or just 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 with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 through the Verde Valley, bringing one's heart of the company back to its roots.

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

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