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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Adobe - In the perfect world everybody would plant a garden to know the precious process of creating the sustainance we depend on. Also might it be ideal if we each knew the craft of building our personal dwellings, in the sustainable way, from your earth as well as the Earth, inside a type 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 Just the Name, however 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 good reputation for earth stewardship, environmental consciousness plus a strong belief in sustainable communities, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands to 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 younger crowd helped start NAU Recycles. He continued this environmentally-based entrepreneurial spirit by working for, 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 from your clay soils from the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona along 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 durable material: earth; and today expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of all: knowledge, to construct 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, both for urban and rural projects. They enjoy working together with individuals and communities alike to build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the fantastic pleasure of adding a bathroom accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

It's all regulated in the Shape

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

Building - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured utilizing a mixture of modern-day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by making use of 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 and much 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 produced in most seasons due to the reduced moisture content.

Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple combination of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mix will be laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud into the desired brick configuration. The shape is lifted from the adobe when the mud dries enough to help keep the adobes shape with no form. After having a few days of sunshine, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process may take from to four weeks to fully cure according to conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks using a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are quite 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 those with difficult access, site made adobes often work best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has created 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 certainly 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 of their very own, along with a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and eco-friendly both in their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then dependable when applying within their completed form. They are extremely power efficient which help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the wintertime. They're 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 both for adobe and straw bale walls. In addition, it can also work as beautiful final plaster.

Earth - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Produced in, and taking advantage of materials from, the United States, American Clay uses natural clays, recycled and reclaimed aggregates and vibrant natural pigments.

Full Service

Beyond Adobe provides sub-contract services to contractors and Owner/Builders, so that you may construct your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, along with the installing of bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe also offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range between 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come fully developed with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can break ground. In the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or perhaps 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 to the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where help 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 the true DYI Owner/Builder, or just those with curiosity for Mud Construction, which is resilient, fire resistent and beautiful, 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 throughout the Verde Valley, bringing the heart with the company to its roots.

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

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