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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Sustainable - Inside a perfect world every person would plant a garden to comprehend the dear technique of allowing the sustainance we depend on. Also might it be ideal if we each knew the craft of building our very own dwellings, in a sustainable way, from the earth but for the Earth, in the kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for over 20 years, is offering this making use of their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not Just the Name, nevertheless the History

Beyond Adobe is definitely an adobe block, also referred to as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company specializing in earthen-based methods and materials. Their history of earth stewardship, environmental consciousness plus a strong belief in sustainable communities, comes from their base in Sedona, and expands into their work throughout the Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a degree in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where he also helped start NAU Recycles. He continued this environmentally-based entrepreneurial spirit by working for, 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 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 to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to new and old homes out from the world's most energy efficient and sturdy material: earth; now expands to providing people with their greatest tool of: knowledge, to build their own.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, Boise state broncos. They regularly work through the entire American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for urban and rural projects. They love dealing with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the truly amazing pleasure of adding your bathroom accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for that Arts.

It's all regulated inside the Shape

Beyond Adobe will make any size, shape, or type of adobe brick you would like, and is capable of making custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to satisfy architectural demands. They'll use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, with respect to the client and circumstances.

Earth - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made 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 dry and prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and more efficient installation because of their uniformity of size and shape. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be made in most seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple mix of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. The mix will be laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud to the desired brick configuration. The shape is lifted from the adobe once the mud dries enough to help keep the adobes shape with no form. Following a day or two associated with, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process can take from to one month to totally cure according to conditions. Puddled adobes bring about bricks using a more individual shape, size and look; no two bricks are very exactly the same. They supply for any unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in a finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and people with difficult access, site made adobes often work best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has made 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 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, along with 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 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 easily repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their particular 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. Additionally, it can also function as beautiful final plaster.

Arizona - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured in, and using 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 construct your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, as well as the installing bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe also offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range from 450 to 1650 square feet. Home plans come full-grown with all necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should get started. From the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or even 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 to 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 usage 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 perhaps individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, that is long-lasting, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 through the entire Verde Valley, bringing the center of the company returning 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 talent levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the Southwest, plus young children in Northern Arizona, high school teachers in Southern Arizona, and the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication information, scholarship opportunities, or to join, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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