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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Design - In the perfect world everybody would plant the garden to understand the valuable technique of creating the sustainance we count on. So too would it be ideal when we each knew the craft to build our personal dwellings, in the sustainable way, from your earth and for the Earth, inside a form of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not merely 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 along with a strong belief in sustainable communities, comes from their base in Sedona, and expands to their work through 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 from the clay soils with 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 would be to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to new and old homes out 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 American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for urban and rural projects. They like working with individuals and communities alike to produce, preserve and restore earth buildings. Within a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, that they had the truly amazing pleasure of adding your bathroom addition to the now expanded Old Town Center for the Arts.

To make sure inside the Shape

Beyond Adobe is likely to make any size, shape, or type of adobe brick you want, and it is creating 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.

Brick - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made employing a mix of modern-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 plus more efficient installation because of their uniformity of configuration. 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.

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin when a simple mixture of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mixture will then be laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud into the desired brick shape and size. The form is lifted off the adobe once the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape without the form. After having a few days of sunshine, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process may take from to one month to totally cure according to conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks using a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks can be the identical. They provide to get a 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 perform best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has made bricks in 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 blend 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 eco-friendly both in their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then dependable when applying inside their completed form. They're extremely power 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 repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their 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. In addition, additionally, it may work as beautiful final plaster.

Arizona - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yankee 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.

Complete

Beyond Adobe provides sub-contract services to contractors and Owner/Builders, so that you may make your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, along with the installation of bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe also offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range from 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come fully developed with all necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to get started. From the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or 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 for the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's real love is Design + Build Projects, where guide clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, coupled 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 your true DYI Owner/Builder, or simply those with curiosity for Mud Construction, that is long-lasting, fire resistent and gorgeous, Beyond Adobe has launched their new series 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 Verde Valley, bringing one's heart from the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a number of workshop opportunities like a green building educational resource, and has taught all age groups and skill 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 sophistication 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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