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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Environment - In the perfect world everybody would plant an outdoor to know the valuable process of allowing the sustainance we count on. Also might it be ideal when we each knew the craft of creating our very own dwellings, in a sustainable way, from your earth but for the Earth, inside a form 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 an adobe block, also referred to as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company devoted to earthen-based methods and materials. Their reputation 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 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 from your clay soils from the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona with his wife, Robin, and will continue to 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 new and old homes from the world's most energy efficient and durable material: earth; now expands to providing people with their greatest tool of all: knowledge, to build their very own.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, New Mexico. They regularly work through the entire 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, they had the fantastic pleasure of adding a bathroom addition to the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

It's All within the Shape

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

Brick - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made utilizing 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 and more efficient installation for their uniformity of configuration. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be produced in most seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin when a simple combination of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. A combination is then laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud into the desired brick configuration. The form is lifted from the adobe if the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape with no form. After having a day or two associated with, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process can take from one to four weeks to totally cure depending on conditions. Puddled adobes bring about bricks having a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks can be exactly the same. They supply for a 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 perform best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe makes 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 really are a mixture 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, along with 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 dependable when applying within their completed form. They're extremely energy-efficient which help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in Winter. They are also 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 adobe and straw bale walls. Furthermore, it may also work as beautiful final plaster.

Eco - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and using 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 will may make your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing with 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 full-grown with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to break ground. In 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 consideration land placement, views, and functionality towards the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; using knowledge in good design, along 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 perhaps people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be long lasting, 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 through the Verde Valley, bringing the center from the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a selection of workshop opportunities being a green building educational resource, and it has taught all age ranges 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 register, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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