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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Sustainable - In the perfect world every person would plant an outdoor to understand the valuable process of allowing the sustainance we count on. So too would it be ideal if we each knew the craft to build our own dwellings, in the sustainable way, from the earth but for the Earth, in a form of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not Just the Name, nevertheless the History

Beyond Adobe is surely 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 along with a strong belief in sustainable communities, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands into 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 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 your clay soils from the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona together 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 answers to old and new homes from the world's most energy-efficient and durable material: earth; now expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of most: 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 American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for both 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 fantastic pleasure of adding your bathrooms accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for that Arts.

It's all regulated in the Shape

Beyond Adobe is likely to make any size, shape, or type of adobe brick you would like, and is also 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, with respect to the client and circumstances.

Building - Pressed adobe blocks, commonly known as as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured utilizing a combination of present 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, 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 raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be made in most seasons due to the reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin when a simple mix of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mix will be laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud in to the desired brick configuration. The form is lifted from the adobe when the mud dries enough to help keep the adobes shape with no form. Following a day or two associated with, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process may take in one to one month to completely cure according to weather conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks with a more individual shape, size and look; no two bricks are very the identical. They supply for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed inside a 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 made bricks in 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 combination 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 very own, plus a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and environmentally friendly both in their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then dependable when applying in their completed form. They are extremely energy-efficient and help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. They are also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and simply repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their particular 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 serve as beautiful final plaster.

Eco - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yank Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured in, and ultizing 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 your building plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, along with the installing bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. Your home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range from 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come full-grown with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to get started. From the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or perhaps the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and everything in between, these house plans take into account 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 their knowledge in good design, combined with efficient use of resources and self-sufficiency strategies. As adobe brick makers, they take great pride and commitment to maintaining and preserving the indigenous methods and materials of earth building.

DYI

For that true DYI Owner/Builder, or simply 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 with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 through the Verde Valley, bringing the center of the company to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a variety of workshop opportunities being a green building educational resource, and has taught all age brackets and talent levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the entire Southwest, plus school children in Northern Arizona, senior high school teachers in Southern Arizona, and the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication information, scholarship opportunities, in order to join, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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