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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 the garden to know the precious process of allowing the sustainance we depend on. Also will it be ideal as we each knew the craft of creating our very own dwellings, inside a sustainable way, from your earth as well as the Earth, in a kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not merely the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is definitely an adobe block, also called adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company focusing on earthen-based methods and materials. Their history of earth stewardship, environmental consciousness plus a strong belief in sustainable communities, is due to 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 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 your clay soils of 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 answers to old and new homes out of the world's most energy efficient and sturdy material: earth; now expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to construct their particular.

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, for both urban and rural projects. They love working with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. Within a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the great pleasure of adding your bathrooms addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

To make sure in the Shape

Beyond Adobe can make any size, shape, or form of adobe brick you want, and 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, depending on the client and circumstances.

Brick - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made employing a combination 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 ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in 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 boosts the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be produced in every 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. The mixture is then laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud into the desired brick size and shape. The proper execution is lifted off the adobe if the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape with no form. After having a few days regarding, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process can take from to a month to completely cure based on weather conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks having a more individual shape, size and look; no two bricks can be the same. They offer for any unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in a 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 in the borderlands of Mexico towards 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 which come from natural, non-toxic oxides and ochre mineral pigments. The plasters create stunning moods of their very own, along with a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and eco-friendly in the their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe when applying within their completed form. They are extremely power efficient that assist control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in Winter. They're also 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. Furthermore, it may also function as beautiful final plaster.

Dirt - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and taking advantage of 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 will may construct your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing through the bond beams, as well as the installing bucks and lentils, if needed.

Beyond Adobe offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. Your home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range between 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come fully developed effortlessly 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 everything in between, these house plans take into consideration land placement, views, and functionality towards the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's true love is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, coupled with efficient usage 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 your true DYI Owner/Builder, or perhaps those with curiosity for Mud Construction, that is resilient, fire resistent and lovely, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start out with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 throughout the Verde Valley, bringing the heart from the company returning to its roots.

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