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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Building - In the perfect world everyone would plant the garden to understand the dear procedure for allowing the sustainance we depend on. So too would it be ideal as we each knew the craft of creating our personal dwellings, inside a sustainable way, from the earth as well as the Earth, inside a type of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for over Twenty years, is providing this with their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not only the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is an adobe block, also known as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company devoted to earthen-based methods and materials. Their reputation earth stewardship, environmental consciousness plus a strong belief in sustainable communities, is due to their base in Sedona, and expands into their work through 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 doing work 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 your clay soils with the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona 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 methods to new and old homes out of the world's most energy-efficient and durable material: earth; now expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to build their own.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, Boise state broncos. They regularly work throughout the American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for urban and rural projects. They love working together with individuals and communities alike to produce, preserve and restore earth buildings. Within a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, that they had the truly amazing 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 will make any size, shape, or type of adobe brick you would like, and it is able to make custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to fulfill architectural demands. They'll use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, with respect to the client and circumstances.

Environment - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made utilizing a mixture of modern day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost totally dry and ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, 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 all seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple mixture of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mix will be laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud into the desired brick shape and size. The proper execution is lifted off the adobe if the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape with no form. Following a day or two regarding, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process will take from one to a month to completely cure according to climate conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks using a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks can be exactly the same. They provide 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 perform best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has created bricks from your 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 really are a blend of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents which come from natural, non-toxic oxides and ochre mineral pigments. The plasters create stunning moods of their very own, along with a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and environmentally friendly in both their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe to use when applying within their completed form. They may be extremely power efficient and help control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. They're also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and 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 adobe and straw bale walls. In addition, it can also work as beautiful final plaster.

DIY - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured in, and taking advantage of materials from, america, 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 construct your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, as well as the installing bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 sq . ft .. Home plans come fully developed with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to get started. From your fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or even 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 soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; making use of their knowledge in good design, along with efficient utilization 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 simply people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be resilient, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group 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 the center from the company returning 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 throughout the Southwest, plus youngsters in Northern Arizona, high school teachers in Southern Arizona, and the Crow Nation in Montana. For class information, scholarship opportunities, or to sign up, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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