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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Workshops - In the perfect world everyone would plant a garden to know the dear procedure for creating the sustainance we count on. So too would it be ideal if we each knew the craft of creating our own dwellings, inside a sustainable way, from the earth as well as the Earth, in a kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not merely the Name, nevertheless the History

Beyond Adobe is an adobe block, also called adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company specializing in earthen-based methods and materials. Their reputation earth stewardship, environmental consciousness and a strong belief in sustainable communities, comes 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 younger crowd 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 owning a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe in the clay soils with the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona together 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 always to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to old and new homes from the world's most energy efficient and sturdy material: earth; now expands to providing people with their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to build their 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 build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the great pleasure of adding a bathroom addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

It's all regulated in the Shape

Beyond Adobe is likely to make any size, shape, or form 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 use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, with respect to the client and circumstances.

Workshops - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured using 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 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 because of their uniformity of size and shape. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which increases the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be made in every seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple combination of earth and water is mixed to some near mud consistency. The mixture will be laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud into the desired brick size and shape. The form is lifted off of the adobe once the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape minus the form. After having a day or two associated with, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process will take in one to four weeks to fully cure depending on climate conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks having a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are quite the same. They supply for any unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in a 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 has made 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 certainly are a mixture 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 very own, plus a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and environmentally friendly in both their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe when applying within their completed form. They may be extremely energy efficient which help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the wintertime. They are also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and easily 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, additionally, it may work as beautiful final plaster.

DIY - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Produced in, and taking advantage of materials from, america, 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 that you may make your adobe walls per your building plans. Construction services include footing through the bond beams, along with the installing of bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range from 450 to 1650 square feet. Home plans come full-grown with all necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can break ground. In 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 consider land placement, views, and functionality for the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; using knowledge in good design, combined with efficient utilization 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 perhaps individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be long-lasting, fire resistent and lovely, 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 from the company returning to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers 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 through the Southwest, plus school children in Northern Arizona, secondary school teachers in Southern Arizona, and also 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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