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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Block - Inside a perfect world everyone would plant the garden to understand the dear technique of allowing the sustainance we count on. So too would it be ideal when we each knew the craft to build our personal dwellings, inside a sustainable way, from the earth as well as the Earth, in the form of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for over Two decades, offers this with their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not Just the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is an adobe block, also known as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company focusing on earthen-based methods and materials. Their good reputation for earth stewardship, environmental consciousness plus a strong belief in sustainable communities, comes from their base in Sedona, and expands within their work through the entire 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 owning a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe from the clay soils with 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 methods to new and old homes from the world's most energy efficient and sturdy material: earth; and now expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of all: knowledge, to build their particular.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, New Mexico. 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 build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the truly amazing pleasure of adding a bathroom accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

It's all regulated within the Shape

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

Building - Pressed adobe blocks, commonly known as as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured utilizing a mix of present day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost totally dry and ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in the compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker plus more efficient installation due to their uniformity of configuration. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be made in all seasons due to the reduced moisture content.

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time 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 size and shape. The shape is lifted from the adobe if the mud dries enough to help keep the adobes shape with no form. After having a couple of days of sunshine, the bricks are set 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 can be 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 those with difficult access, site made adobes often work most effectively 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 really 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 own, plus a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and eco-friendly in the their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe when applying inside their completed form. They may be extremely energy efficient that assist control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the winter months. Also, they are non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and simply 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. Furthermore, additionally, it may function as beautiful final plaster.

Building - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and using 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 build your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing from the bond beams, plus the installation of bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range from 450 to 1650 sq . ft .. Home plans come full-grown effortlessly necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should get started. From your 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 use 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 that true DYI Owner/Builder, or simply those with curiosity for Mud Construction, that is long-lasting, fire resistent and lovely, 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 through the entire Verde Valley, bringing the heart from the company returning to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a number of workshop opportunities like 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, secondary school teachers in Southern Arizona, as well as the Crow Nation in Montana. For class information, scholarship opportunities, or join, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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