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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Block - Inside a perfect world every person would plant a garden to understand the dear process of allowing the sustainance we rely on. So too will it be ideal if we each knew the craft of creating our own dwellings, in a sustainable way, in the earth as well as the Earth, in the type of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for upwards of 20 years, is providing this making use of 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, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands into their work throughout the 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 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 your clay soils of 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 methods to old and new homes out of the world's most energy-efficient and durable material: earth; now expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of: knowledge, to create their own.

Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, Boise state broncos. They regularly work through the American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for urban and rural projects. They like dealing with individuals and communities alike to build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. Throughout a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the truly amazing pleasure of adding your bathroom accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for that Arts.

It's All in the Shape

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

Earth - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created utilizing a combination 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 prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in the 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 raises 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 each time a simple mixture of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mix is then laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud into the desired brick size and shape. The form is lifted from the adobe when the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape minus the form. Following a few days regarding, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process will take in one to one month to completely cure according to weather 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 the ones with difficult access, site made adobes often work best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has created bricks from your borderlands of Mexico to 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 mixture 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 safe when applying within their completed form. They may be 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 own true, earth plaster. The plaster might be partially stabilized with lime or Portland cement. This earth plaster makes excellent base coats for adobe and straw bale walls. In addition, it may also function as beautiful final plaster.

Eco - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Produced in, and using 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 will may build your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing through the bond beams, as well as the installation of bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range between 450 to 1650 square feet. Home plans come fully developed with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to get started. From your fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or perhaps 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 towards the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where guide clients from conception to completion; making use of their knowledge in good design, coupled with efficient usage 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 your true DYI Owner/Builder, or just those with curiosity for Mud Construction, which is long lasting, fire resistent and gorgeous, 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 one's heart from the company returning to its roots.

Beyond Adobe provides a variety of workshop opportunities like a green building educational resource, and it 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, and also 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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