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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

DIY - In a perfect world everybody would plant an outdoor to understand the precious technique of creating the sustainance we count on. Also might it be ideal when we each knew the craft of building our own dwellings, inside a sustainable way, from the earth as well as the Earth, in the form of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not only the Name, nevertheless the History

Beyond Adobe is definitely an adobe block, also referred to as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company focusing on earthen-based methods and materials. Their reputation earth stewardship, environmental consciousness plus a strong belief in sustainable communities, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands to 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 also, he 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 owning a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe in the clay soils from the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona along 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 is always to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable methods to old and new homes out from the world's most power efficient and sturdy material: earth; now expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of all: knowledge, to construct their very own.

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 like working together with individuals and communities alike to build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, that they had the truly amazing pleasure of adding a bathroom accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

It's All within the Shape

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

Building - Pressed adobe blocks, commonly known as as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured utilizing 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 dry and prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, both in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker plus more efficient installation due to their uniformity of configuration. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which increases the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be produced in every seasons due to the reduced moisture content.

Handmade, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple combination of earth and water is mixed to some near mud consistency. The mix will then be laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud in to the desired brick size and shape. The form is lifted off of the adobe if the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape without the form. After a few days associated with, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process will take from to one month to fully cure according to climate conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks using a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are very the identical. They provide for 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 most effectively for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe makes 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 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 green both in their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe to use when applying inside their completed form. They're extremely power efficient which help control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. They're also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and repairable.

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

Construction - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of yank Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured in, and using materials from, the usa, 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 through the bond beams, as well as the installing of bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come full-grown effortlessly necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to break ground. From your fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or even the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and my way through between, these house plans consider land placement, views, and functionality to the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's true love is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; making use of their knowledge in good design, combined with efficient utilization 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 that true DYI Owner/Builder, or just individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, that is long-lasting, fire resistent and lovely, Beyond Adobe has launched their new series 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 of the company returning to its roots.

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