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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Block - In the perfect world every person would plant the garden to comprehend the precious process of creating the sustainance we depend on. So too might it be ideal when we each knew the craft of creating our own dwellings, in a sustainable way, from your earth as well as the Earth, in the type of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for upwards of Two decades, offers this making use of their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not merely the Name, nevertheless the History

Beyond Adobe is an adobe block, also known as 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 within their work throughout the Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a degree 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 managing a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe from the clay soils from the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona along 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 would be to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable methods to new and old homes out of the world's most power efficient and durable material: earth; now expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of: knowledge, to create 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 both urban and rural projects. They love working with individuals and communities alike to build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. During a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the fantastic pleasure of adding your bathroom addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

It's all regulated in the Shape

Beyond Adobe can make any size, shape, or type of adobe brick you would like, and is able to make 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.

DIY - 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 through the use of hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost totally dry and prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in the compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and much 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 created in every seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple mix of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. The mix will then be laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud into the desired brick size and shape. The form is lifted off the adobe if the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape without the form. After having a few days of sunshine, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process will take in one to one month to fully cure based on climate conditions. Puddled adobes bring about bricks with a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks can be exactly the same. They offer 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 in the 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 mixture of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents which come from natural, non-toxic oxides and ochre mineral pigments. The plasters create stunning moods that belongs to them, 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 to use when applying within their completed form. They may be extremely energy-efficient that assist control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the wintertime. Also, they are non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their own true, earth plaster. The plaster could be partially stabilized with lime or Portland cement. This earth plaster makes excellent base coats both for adobe and straw bale walls. Additionally, it can also function as beautiful final plaster.

Earth - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured in, and using materials from, the United States, 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 you may make your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing from the bond beams, as well as the installing bucks and lentils, if needed.

Beyond Adobe also offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house 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 that you should break ground. From your 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 to the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where guide clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, along 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 the true DYI Owner/Builder, or just individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, which is long-lasting, 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 throughout the Verde Valley, bringing one's heart from the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe supplies a variety of workshop opportunities like a green building educational resource, and has taught all age ranges and talent levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the entire Southwest, plus youngsters in Northern Arizona, high school teachers in Southern Arizona, as well as the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication information, scholarship opportunities, or to join, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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