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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Earth - In the perfect world everyone would plant an outdoor to know the valuable technique of allowing the sustainance we rely on. So too would it be ideal if we each knew the craft to build our personal dwellings, in the sustainable way, from the earth as well as the Earth, in a type of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for over Twenty years, is providing this using their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not only the Name, however the History

Beyond Adobe is definitely an adobe block, also known 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, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands to 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 he also 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 together 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 from the world's most energy-efficient and durable material: earth; and today expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to construct their very own.

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 like working with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. Within a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the truly amazing pleasure of adding your bathroom accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for the Arts.

It's All within the Shape

Beyond Adobe is likely to make any size, shape, or kind of adobe brick you would like, and is creating custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to satisfy architectural demands. They use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, based on the client and circumstances.

Dirt - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created employing a mix 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, in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker plus more efficient installation because of their uniformity of configuration. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which boosts the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in all seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin when a simple combination of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. The mix is then laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud into the desired brick configuration. The shape is lifted off of the adobe if the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape without the form. Following a few days associated with, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process may take from to a month to fully cure based on climate conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks with a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are very the same. They supply for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in the 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 made 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 certainly 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 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 may be extremely energy-efficient which 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 easily 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 for both adobe and straw bale walls. Additionally, it may also work as beautiful final plaster.

Arizona - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yank Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and taking advantage of materials from, the usa, 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 structure plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, along with the installation of bucks and lentils, if needed.

Beyond Adobe offers 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 necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to break ground. From 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 for the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's real love is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; using knowledge in good design, combined with efficient utilization 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 individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, that is resilient, fire resistent and lovely, Beyond Adobe has launched their new series 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 with the company to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a variety of workshop opportunities being a green building educational resource, and possesses taught all age brackets and talent levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders throughout the 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 register, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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