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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 every person would plant the garden to understand the precious technique of creating the sustainance we rely on. Also will it be ideal if we each knew the craft of building our own dwellings, in the sustainable way, from your earth and for the Earth, inside a kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for upwards of Two decades, offers this with 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 good reputation for earth stewardship, environmental consciousness along with a strong belief in sustainable communities, is due to their base in Sedona, and expands to their work through the entire Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a qualification in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where younger crowd 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 running 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 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 to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to new and old homes from the world's most energy-efficient and sturdy material: earth; and today expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of: knowledge, to construct their particular.

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

To make sure in the Shape

Beyond Adobe will make any size, shape, or type of adobe brick you desire, and it is able to make custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to satisfy architectural demands. They will use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, depending on the client and circumstances.

Environment - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created using a combination of modern-day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost dry and prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, both in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker plus more efficient installation because of their uniformity of size and shape. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which increases the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be made in most seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Handmade, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple combination of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. The mixture will be laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud in to the desired brick shape and size. The shape is lifted off the adobe once the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape minus the form. Following a day or two of sunshine, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process can take from one to four weeks to totally cure based on conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks using a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks can be the identical. They provide for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in a finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and the ones with difficult access, site made adobes often work most effectively 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 are a blend 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, plus 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 in their completed form. They are extremely energy efficient which help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in Winter. Also, they are non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and easily repairable.

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

DIY - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured 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 that you will may build your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing through the bond beams, plus the installation of 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 adult with all 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 consider land placement, views, and functionality to the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's real love is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; making use of 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 just individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, that is 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 heart with the company returning to its roots.

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

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