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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

DIY - In the perfect world everyone would plant a garden to understand the precious procedure for creating the sustainance we count on. So too might it be ideal as we each knew the craft of building our very own dwellings, inside a sustainable way, from the earth and for the Earth, inside a kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for over Twenty 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 devoted to earthen-based methods and materials. Their history of earth stewardship, environmental consciousness plus a strong belief in sustainable communities, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands within their work throughout 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 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 in the 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 would be to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to new and old homes out from the world's most energy-efficient and sturdy material: earth; now expands to providing people with their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to construct their particular.

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

It's All in the Shape

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

Workshops - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made using a combination of modern day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by making use of hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost totally dry and ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and much more efficient installation because of their uniformity of size and shape. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be made in most seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin when a simple mixture of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mix is then laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud to the desired brick shape and size. The shape is lifted from the adobe when the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape minus the form. Following a day or two associated with, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process may take from one to four weeks to fully cure according to conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks using a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are very the identical. They provide for any unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in a finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and people with difficult access, site made adobes often work best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe makes bricks from 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 really are a combination 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 that belongs to them, and 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 safe to use when applying in their completed form. They are extremely energy-efficient and help control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the wintertime. They're also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and simply 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 both adobe and straw bale walls. Additionally, it may also function as beautiful final plaster.

Environment - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and using materials from, america, 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 construct your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing from the bond beams, plus the installing of bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range between 450 to 1650 square feet. Home plans come adult with all necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should break ground. In the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or perhaps the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and all things in between, these house plans take into account land placement, views, and functionality towards the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's true love is Design + Build Projects, where guide clients from conception to completion; making use of their knowledge in good design, along with efficient usage of resources and self-sufficiency strategies. As adobe brick makers, they take great pride and resolve for maintaining and preserving the indigenous methods and materials of earth building.

DYI

For the true DYI Owner/Builder, or simply people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, which is long lasting, fire resistent and lovely, 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 with the company to its roots.

Beyond Adobe supplies a variety of workshop opportunities being 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 youngsters in Northern Arizona, senior high school teachers in Southern Arizona, and the Crow Nation in Montana. For class information, scholarship opportunities, or register, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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