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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Design - In the perfect world everybody would plant a garden to know the precious procedure for allowing the sustainance we rely on. So too will it be ideal if we each knew the craft of building our personal dwellings, inside a sustainable way, from your earth and for the Earth, inside a type of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for more than 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 known as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company focusing on earthen-based methods and materials. Their good reputation for earth stewardship, environmental consciousness along with a strong belief in sustainable communities, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands to their work through the Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a diploma in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where he also 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 the clay soils from the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona with his wife, Robin, and continues 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 methods to new and old homes out of the world's most power efficient and sturdy material: earth; and now expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to construct their own.

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

It's all regulated inside the Shape

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

Sustainable - Pressed adobe blocks, commonly known as as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created 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 totally dry and prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, both in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker plus more efficient installation because of 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 because of the reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple combination of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. A combination will then be laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud in to the desired brick shape and size. The proper execution is lifted off of the adobe if the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape without the form. After a day or two of sunshine, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process can take in one to one month to totally cure depending on weather conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks having a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are very the identical. They supply to get 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 most effectively for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has created bricks from the 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 blend of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents that can 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 green in the their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe to use when applying inside their completed form. They may be extremely power efficient which help control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. Also, they are non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and simply repairable.

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

Construction - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured in, and ultizing 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 your building plans. Construction services include footing from the bond beams, as well as the installing bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range between 450 to 1650 square feet. Home plans come fully developed effortlessly necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can break ground. From the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or perhaps 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 to the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where guide clients from conception to completion; using 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 your true DYI Owner/Builder, or just individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be long-lasting, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new series 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 center from the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a variety of workshop opportunities like a green building educational resource, and has taught all age groups and skill levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the Southwest, plus youngsters in Northern Arizona, secondary school teachers in Southern Arizona, as well as the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication 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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