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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

DIY - Inside a perfect world everybody would plant the garden to comprehend the valuable process of creating the sustainance we depend on. Also would it be ideal if we each knew the craft of creating our own dwellings, in the sustainable way, from the earth and for the Earth, in the form of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not only the Name, nevertheless 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 history of earth stewardship, environmental consciousness along with a strong belief in sustainable communities, comes from their base in Sedona, and expands into 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 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 managing a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe in the clay soils of the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona along 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 is to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable methods to new and old homes out from the world's most energy efficient and sturdy material: earth; and today expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of all: knowledge, to construct their particular.

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

To make sure inside the Shape

Beyond Adobe can make any size, shape, or type of adobe brick you want, and 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, depending on the client and circumstances.

Sustainable - Pressed adobe blocks, commonly known as as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created utilizing a mixture of present day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced through the 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 and much more efficient installation because of their uniformity of shape and size. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which increases the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in most seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple combination of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mixture will be laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud into the desired brick configuration. The shape is lifted from the adobe if the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape with no form. After a day or two regarding, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process will take from to one month to completely cure according to weather conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks with a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are very the identical. They provide for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed inside 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 has made 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 really 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 of their own, along with a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and green in both their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe when applying inside 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 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. Furthermore, additionally, it may work as beautiful final plaster.

Dirt - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Produced in, and taking advantage of materials from, the United States, 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 build your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing from the bond beams, as well as the installing bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

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

Beyond Adobe's true love is Design + Build Projects, where guide clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, combined 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 the true DYI Owner/Builder, or just those with curiosity for Mud Construction, which is long lasting, fire resistent and lovely, Beyond Adobe has launched their new number of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start out with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 through the entire Verde Valley, bringing the heart from the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a number of workshop opportunities being a green building educational resource, and possesses taught all age groups and skill levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders throughout the Southwest, plus young children in Northern Arizona, senior high school teachers in Southern Arizona, as well as the Crow Nation in Montana. For class information, scholarship opportunities, or register, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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