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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Workshops - Inside a perfect world every person would plant the garden to comprehend the valuable process of creating the sustainance we rely on. Also might it be ideal as we each knew the craft of building our own dwellings, inside a sustainable way, in the earth but for the Earth, in the form of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not merely the Name, however the History

Beyond Adobe is surely an adobe block, also referred to as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company focusing on earthen-based methods and materials. Their history of earth stewardship, environmental consciousness plus a strong belief in sustainable communities, comes from their base in Sedona, and expands to their work throughout the Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a degree 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 running a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe in the clay soils with the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona along 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 always to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to new and old homes out from the world's most power efficient and durable material: earth; and today expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of: knowledge, to construct their very own.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, Boise state broncos. They regularly work throughout the American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, both for urban and rural projects. They like working together with individuals and communities alike to build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, that they had the fantastic pleasure of adding your bathrooms addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for that Arts.

To make sure within the Shape

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

Block - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created employing a mixture of present day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost completely dry and prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker plus more efficient installation for their uniformity of size and shape. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which increases the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in most seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Handmade, or puddled, adobe bricks begin when a simple mix of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. A combination will then be laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud into the desired brick shape and size. The shape is lifted off the adobe when the mud dries enough to help keep 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 depending on conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks having a more individual shape, size and look; no two bricks are quite the identical. They offer to get 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 perform best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has made 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 really are a combination of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents that come from natural, non-toxic oxides and ochre mineral pigments. The plasters create stunning moods that belongs to them, along with a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and eco-friendly in both their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe when applying in their completed form. They are extremely energy efficient which help control humidity and temperature 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 particular true, earth plaster. The plaster may 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.

Block - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Produced 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 from the bond beams, plus the installation of bucks and lentils, if needed.

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 fully developed with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should get started. In the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or even the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and everything in between, these house plans consider land placement, views, and functionality towards the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where guide clients from conception to completion; using their 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 those with curiosity for Mud Construction, which is long lasting, fire resistent and lovely, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops begin with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 throughout the Verde Valley, bringing the heart of 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 groups and skill levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders throughout the Southwest, plus young children in Northern Arizona, secondary school teachers in Southern Arizona, and the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication 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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