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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Construction - Inside a perfect world everybody would plant the garden to understand the dear procedure for creating the sustainance we count on. So too will it be ideal when we each knew the craft of creating our very own dwellings, in the sustainable way, from the earth and for the Earth, inside a kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for more than Twenty years, is offering 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 surely an adobe block, also called adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company devoted to earthen-based methods and materials. Their history of 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 diploma in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where younger crowd 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 managing 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 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 answers to old and new homes from the world's most energy efficient and durable material: earth; and now 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, both for urban and rural projects. They love working together with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. Within a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the great pleasure of adding your bathrooms addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

It's All inside the Shape

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

Sustainable - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured using 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 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 shape and size. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be produced in every 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 to a near mud consistency. A combination will then be laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud in to the desired brick size and shape. The form is lifted off the adobe if the mud dries enough to help keep the adobes shape with no form. Following a few days associated with, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process may take from one to four weeks to completely cure according to climate conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks using a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are very the same. They provide for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in the finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and people with difficult access, site made adobes often work most effectively for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has created bricks in 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 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 to use when applying within their completed form. They're extremely power efficient and help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in Winter. They are also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and simply repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their very own true, earth plaster. The plaster may be partially stabilized with lime or Portland cement. This earth plaster makes excellent base coats 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 ultizing 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 that you will may make your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, along with the installing bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe also offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come full-grown effortlessly necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should break ground. In the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and everything in between, these house plans take into consideration land placement, views, and functionality towards the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, coupled 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 your true DYI Owner/Builder, or simply those with curiosity for Mud Construction, which is long-lasting, fire resistent and gorgeous, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group 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 entire Verde Valley, bringing the heart from the company to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a number of workshop opportunities as a green building educational resource, and it has taught all age ranges and talent levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the Southwest, plus school children in Northern Arizona, secondary school teachers in Southern Arizona, and the Crow Nation in Montana. For class information, scholarship opportunities, in order 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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