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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Sustainable - Inside a perfect world everyone would plant the garden to understand the precious procedure for creating the sustainance we depend on. Also will it be ideal if we each knew the craft to build our very own dwellings, in the sustainable way, from the earth as well as the Earth, in the kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for over Two decades, is providing 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 and a strong belief in sustainable communities, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands into 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 doing work for, 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 of the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona 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 out from the world's most energy-efficient and durable material: earth; and now expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of all: knowledge, to create their very own.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, New Mexico. They regularly work throughout 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 build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. During a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the truly amazing pleasure of adding your bathroom addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for the Arts.

To make sure in the Shape

Beyond Adobe will 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'll use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, with respect to the client and circumstances.

Brick - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured using 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 totally 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 for their uniformity of configuration. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which increases 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 whenever a simple mix of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mixture will then be laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud to the desired brick shape and size. The form is lifted off of the adobe if the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape with no form. Following a couple of days of sunshine, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process may take in one to four weeks to completely cure depending on weather conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks using a more individual shape, size and look; no two bricks can be the same. They offer to get a 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 most effectively for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe makes bricks from the borderlands of Mexico towards 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 which come from natural, non-toxic oxides and ochre mineral pigments. The plasters create stunning moods that belongs to them, and 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 within their completed form. They're extremely power efficient and help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the wintertime. They are also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and simply 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. In addition, additionally, it may work as beautiful final plaster.

Arizona - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and using materials from, america, 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 with the bond beams, plus the installation of bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe also offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. Your home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 sq . ft .. Home plans come full-grown effortlessly necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to break ground. In the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or even the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and all things in between, these house plans consider land placement, views, and functionality for the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's real love is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; using knowledge in good design, along 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 that true DYI Owner/Builder, or perhaps people that have curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be long lasting, fire resistent and gorgeous, 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 center with the company to its roots.

Beyond Adobe supplies a variety of workshop opportunities like a green building educational resource, and possesses taught all age groups and skill 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 also the Crow Nation in Montana. For class 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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