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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Eco - In the perfect world everybody would plant an outdoor to comprehend the valuable process of allowing the sustainance we rely on. So too would it be ideal as we each knew the craft of creating our very own dwellings, in a sustainable way, in the earth and for the Earth, inside a type of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for more than 20 years, offers 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 referred to as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company focusing on 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 within their work through the entire Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a degree in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where he also 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 in the 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 would be to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to old and new homes out from the world's most energy-efficient and durable material: earth; and now expands to providing people with their greatest tool of: 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 love working with individuals and communities alike to produce, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the great pleasure of adding your bathrooms addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

It's All within the Shape

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

Arizona - Pressed adobe blocks, commonly known as as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured using a mix of modern-day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced through the use of hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost dry and ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, both in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and much more efficient installation due to their uniformity of size and shape. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which boosts the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in every seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple mixture of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. A combination is then laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud into the desired brick size and shape. The form is lifted off of the adobe once the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape minus the form. After a few days regarding, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process can take from one to one month to totally cure according to conditions. Puddled adobes bring about bricks with a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks can be the identical. They supply for any 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 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 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 dependable when applying within their completed form. They are extremely energy-efficient and help control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in Winter. They're 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. Additionally, additionally, it may work as beautiful final plaster.

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

Full Service

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

Beyond Adobe also offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range between 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come fully developed with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to break ground. In the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or even 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 help clients from conception to completion; making use of their knowledge in good design, combined with efficient use 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 the true DYI Owner/Builder, or perhaps those with curiosity for Mud Construction, that is long lasting, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group 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 entire Verde Valley, bringing the heart with the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a variety 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 throughout the Southwest, plus young children in Northern Arizona, high school teachers in Southern Arizona, and also the Crow Nation in Montana. For class information, scholarship opportunities, in order to join, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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