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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Arizona - In the perfect world everybody would plant a 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 building our personal dwellings, inside a sustainable way, from your earth as well as the Earth, inside a kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not merely the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is definitely an adobe block, also called adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company focusing on 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 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 he also 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 in 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 is always to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to new and old homes from the world's most energy efficient and sturdy material: earth; and now expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of: knowledge, to build 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 like working with individuals and communities alike to produce, preserve and restore earth buildings. During a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the fantastic pleasure of adding a bathroom addition to the now expanded Old Town Center for that Arts.

To make sure in the Shape

Beyond Adobe will make any size, shape, or type 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, based on the client and circumstances.

Block - 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 by making use of hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost completely dry and ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in the compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and 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 most 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 with a near mud consistency. The mix will be laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud into the desired brick shape and size. The shape is lifted from the adobe once the mud dries enough to help keep the adobes shape minus the form. Following a day or two of sunshine, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process may take from to a month to fully cure based on weather conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks with a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are very exactly 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 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 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 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, and 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 within their completed form. They're extremely power efficient that assist control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. They're also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and easily repairable.

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

Design - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of yank Clay Earth Plasters. Produced 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 that you will may make your adobe walls per your building plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, plus the installation of bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 sq . ft .. Home plans come adult with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should 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 for the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's real love is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; using knowledge in good design, coupled with efficient usage 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 your true DYI Owner/Builder, or perhaps those with curiosity for Mud Construction, that is long lasting, fire resistent and beautiful, 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 through the Verde Valley, bringing one's heart from the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a number 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 youngsters in Northern Arizona, high school teachers in Southern Arizona, as well as 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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