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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Brick - Inside a perfect world everybody would plant a garden to know the valuable procedure for creating the sustainance we depend on. So too might it be ideal if we each knew the craft of creating our very own dwellings, inside a sustainable way, from the earth but for the Earth, in the kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not Just the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is surely an adobe block, also called adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company devoted to earthen-based methods and materials. Their history of earth stewardship, environmental consciousness along with a strong belief in sustainable communities, is due to their base in Sedona, and expands into 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 running 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 is constantly on the 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 methods to old and new homes out of the world's most energy efficient and sturdy material: earth; now expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of: knowledge, to construct their own.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, New Mexico. They regularly work throughout the American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for urban and rural projects. They enjoy working with individuals and communities alike to build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. Within a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the truly amazing pleasure of adding your bathrooms addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

It's All inside the Shape

Beyond Adobe can make any size, shape, or kind of adobe brick you would like, and it is creating 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.

Arizona - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made using a combination of present day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing 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 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 all seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin when a simple mix of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. A combination will be laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud in to the desired brick configuration. The proper execution is lifted off the adobe when the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape with no form. After a couple of days regarding, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process may take in one to a month to totally cure depending on weather conditions. Puddled adobes bring about bricks using a more individual shape, size and look; no two bricks are quite the same. 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 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 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 environmentally friendly both in their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe when applying inside their completed form. They are extremely energy-efficient which help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. They are also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and easily repairable.

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

Brick - 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 you may construct your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing from the bond beams, as well as the installing bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. Your home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 sq . ft .. Home plans come full-grown with all necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can get started. 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 account land placement, views, and functionality towards the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's real love is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, coupled with efficient use 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 just people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, that is resilient, fire resistent and beautiful, 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 one's heart of the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a number of workshop opportunities as a green building educational resource, and has taught all age ranges and talent levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders throughout the Southwest, plus school children in Northern Arizona, senior high school teachers in Southern Arizona, as well as 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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