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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Sustainable - In a perfect world every person would plant a garden to know the precious procedure for creating the sustainance we depend on. Also would it be ideal if we each knew the craft to build our personal dwellings, in a sustainable way, from your earth but for the Earth, inside a form of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not merely 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 plus a strong belief in sustainable communities, comes from their base in Sedona, and expands into their work throughout the Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a degree 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 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 always to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to new and old homes from the world's most energy efficient and durable material: earth; now expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to create their particular.

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

It's All in the Shape

Beyond Adobe will make any size, shape, or form of adobe brick you want, and it is creating custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to satisfy architectural demands. They use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, with respect to the client and circumstances.

Block - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured utilizing a mixture of present day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by making use of hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost completely dry and prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in the compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and much more efficient installation for their uniformity of size and shape. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which increases the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be produced in most seasons due to the reduced moisture content.

Handmade, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple mix of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. The mixture is then laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud in to the desired brick shape and size. The form is lifted off the adobe once the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape with no form. After having a couple of days associated with, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process may take from one to four weeks to completely cure based on conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks with a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are very 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 has created bricks from your 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 combination of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents which 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 eco-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 that assist control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the wintertime. Also, they are non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and simply repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their own true, earth plaster. The plaster might be partially stabilized with lime or Portland cement. This earth plaster makes excellent base coats for both adobe and straw bale walls. Furthermore, additionally, it may work as beautiful final plaster.

Eco - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured 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 will may construct your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing through the bond beams, as well as the installing of bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

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 fully developed with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should break ground. From your fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and my way through between, these house plans take into consideration land placement, views, and functionality to the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's true love is Design + Build Projects, where guide clients from conception to completion; using knowledge in good design, along 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 your true DYI Owner/Builder, or just 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 begin with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 through the entire Verde Valley, bringing the heart with the company returning to its roots.

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

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