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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Adobe - In the perfect world everybody would plant an outdoor to know the precious technique of creating the sustainance we rely on. So too might it be ideal as we each knew the craft of building our personal dwellings, inside a sustainable way, from the earth as well as the Earth, in a kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for more than 20 years, is offering this making use of their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not merely the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is definitely an adobe block, also called adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company focusing on earthen-based methods and materials. Their reputation earth stewardship, environmental consciousness and a strong belief in sustainable communities, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands to their work through the Southwest.

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a degree in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where also, he 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 managing a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe in the clay soils of the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona together 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 always to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to new and old homes out of the world's most energy-efficient and sturdy material: earth; and now expands to providing individuals with 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 through the American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for urban and rural projects. They love working with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. During 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 in the Shape

Beyond Adobe can 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 meet architectural demands. They use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, with respect to the client and circumstances.

Building - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made employing a mix of modern-day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by making 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 raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created in most 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 with a near mud consistency. The mix is then laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud to the desired brick shape and size. The proper execution is lifted from the adobe when the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape with no form. After a day or two of sunshine, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process can take from to a month to completely cure depending on conditions. Puddled adobes bring about bricks using a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are quite 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 the ones with difficult access, site made adobes often work most effectively for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe has created 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 which 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 to use when applying within their completed form. They're extremely energy-efficient which help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the wintertime. Also, they are non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and simply repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their very own 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, it can also serve as beautiful final plaster.

Environment - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Produced in, and using materials from, america, 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 make your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, along with the installation of bucks and lentils, if needed.

Beyond Adobe also provides professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range between 450 to 1650 square feet. Home plans come full-grown with all necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should break ground. In the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or even the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and my way through between, these house plans take into consideration land placement, views, and functionality for the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's true love is Design + Build Projects, where help clients from conception to completion; using knowledge in good design, coupled 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 the true DYI Owner/Builder, or just those with curiosity for Mud Construction, which is long lasting, fire resistent and beautiful, 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 through the entire Verde Valley, bringing one's heart with the company to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a selection of workshop opportunities being a green building educational resource, and has taught all age brackets and skill levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the Southwest, plus youngsters in Northern Arizona, high school teachers in Southern Arizona, and the Crow Nation in Montana. For class information, scholarship opportunities, in order 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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