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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Dirt - Inside a perfect world everyone would plant an outdoor to understand the precious process of creating the sustainance we rely on. Also might it be ideal if we each knew the craft of creating our very own dwellings, in a sustainable way, from your earth but for the Earth, in a kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for more than Two decades, 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 surely an adobe block, also known as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company specializing in earthen-based methods and materials. Their good reputation for earth stewardship, environmental consciousness plus a strong belief in sustainable communities, comes from 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 the clay soils from the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona together 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 durable material: earth; now expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of: knowledge, to build 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 working with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. During a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the great pleasure of adding a bathroom addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for that Arts.

It's All in the Shape

Beyond Adobe is likely to make any size, shape, or form of adobe brick you desire, and is also creating custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to meet architectural demands. They will use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, with respect to the client and circumstances.

Environment - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created employing a mixture of present day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing 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 much more efficient installation due to their uniformity of shape and size. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be produced in all seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Handmade, or puddled, adobe bricks begin when a simple combination of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. The mixture is then laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud into the desired brick configuration. The proper execution is lifted off of the adobe when the mud dries enough to help keep the adobes shape minus the form. Following a couple of days of sunshine, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process may take from one to four weeks to totally cure according to conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks using a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are very the identical. They provide to get a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in a finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and the ones with difficult access, site made adobes often work best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe makes 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 mixture 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 of their very own, plus a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and eco-friendly both in their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then dependable when applying inside their completed form. They are extremely energy efficient and help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. They are also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and easily repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their particular 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. In addition, it may also work as beautiful final plaster.

Environment - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and ultizing materials from, america, 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 you may construct your adobe walls per your building plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, as well as the installation of bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range from 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come full-grown with all necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can break ground. In the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and my way through between, these house plans take into consideration land placement, views, and functionality to the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's true love is Design + Build Projects, where guide clients from conception to completion; making use of their knowledge in good design, combined with efficient utilization 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 that true DYI Owner/Builder, or just those with curiosity for Mud Construction, which is resilient, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 through the entire Verde Valley, bringing one's heart with the company back 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 skill levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the entire Southwest, plus school children in Northern Arizona, secondary school teachers in Southern Arizona, and the Crow Nation in Montana. For class information, scholarship opportunities, or to register, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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