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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Eco - In a perfect world everybody would plant an outdoor to comprehend the precious process of allowing the sustainance we rely on. So too would it be ideal if we each knew the craft of building our personal dwellings, in the sustainable way, from the earth and for the Earth, in a form of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not only the Name, but 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 history of earth stewardship, environmental consciousness and 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 diploma in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where younger crowd helped start NAU Recycles. He continued this environmentally-based entrepreneurial spirit by doing work 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 of the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona 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 answers to old and new homes out from the world's most energy-efficient and durable material: earth; and today expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of: 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 American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, both for urban and rural projects. They like working with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the truly amazing pleasure of adding a bathroom addition to the now expanded Old Town Center for the Arts.

To make sure in the Shape

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

Block - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created employing 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 prepared 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 raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in every seasons due to the reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple mix 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 to the desired brick shape and size. The proper execution is lifted from the adobe when the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape without the form. Following a couple of days regarding, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process may take from one to a month to totally cure according to weather conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks having a more individual shape, size and look; no two bricks are quite exactly the same. They supply for any unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed inside a finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and people with difficult access, site made adobes often work most effectively for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has created 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 certainly 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 own, plus 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're extremely power efficient and help control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. Also, they are 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 both adobe and straw bale walls. Furthermore, it may also work as beautiful final plaster.

Dirt - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Produced 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 your building plans. Construction services include footing from the bond beams, as well as the installation of bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. Your home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 sq . ft .. Home plans come adult with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to 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 consider land placement, views, and functionality towards the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, combined with efficient utilization 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 simply people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, that is long lasting, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new number of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start out with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 through the Verde Valley, bringing the heart with the company to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a selection of workshop opportunities being a green building educational resource, and possesses taught all age groups and talent levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders throughout the Southwest, plus youngsters in Northern Arizona, high school teachers in Southern Arizona, and also the Crow Nation in Montana. For class 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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