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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Eco - Inside a perfect world every person would plant the garden to know the dear technique of creating the sustainance we depend on. Also would it be ideal when we each knew the craft of creating our personal dwellings, in a sustainable way, from your earth and for the Earth, in a form of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for more than Two decades, is providing this using their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not Just the Name, nevertheless 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, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands within their work through 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 employed by, 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 from the clay soils of the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona along 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 answers to new and old homes from the world's most power efficient and sturdy material: earth; and now expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of all: knowledge, to construct 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, for both urban and rural projects. They love working together 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 accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for the Arts.

It's All in the Shape

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

Design - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made employing a mix of modern day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost dry and prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker plus more efficient installation for their uniformity of shape and size. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which raises 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 mixture of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. The mixture will be laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud into the desired brick configuration. The shape is lifted off of the adobe once the mud dries enough to help keep the adobes shape with no form. After a couple of days regarding, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process can take in one to four weeks to fully cure depending on weather conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks using a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are very the same. They offer for any unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in the finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and the ones with difficult access, site made adobes often perform best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has made 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 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 very own, plus 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 dependable when applying within their completed form. They are extremely energy efficient which help control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the wintertime. They're also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and simply 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 may also work as beautiful final plaster.

Block - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yank Clay Earth Plasters. Produced in, and ultizing materials from, the United States, 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 construct your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing from the bond beams, along with the installing of bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 square feet. Home plans come full-grown effortlessly necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can get started. From your 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 account land placement, views, and functionality towards the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's real love 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 simply individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be long-lasting, fire resistent and gorgeous, Beyond Adobe has launched their new number of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops begin with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 throughout the Verde Valley, bringing one's heart with the company to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a selection of workshop opportunities like a green building educational resource, and possesses taught all age ranges 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 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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