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

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Cottonwood, AZ

Building - In the perfect world every person would plant a garden to comprehend the valuable procedure for creating the sustainance we depend on. Also will it be ideal if we each knew the craft of creating our personal dwellings, in the sustainable way, in the earth but for the Earth, in a form of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for upwards of Two decades, offers this making use of their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

Not only the Name, but the History

Beyond Adobe is definitely an adobe block, also called adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company specializing in earthen-based methods and materials. Their reputation earth stewardship, environmental consciousness along with a strong belief in sustainable communities, stems from their base in Sedona, and expands within 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 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 managing 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 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 to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to old and new homes out of the world's most power efficient and durable material: earth; now expands to providing individuals with their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to build their own.

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, for both urban and rural projects. They like working with individuals and communities alike to produce, preserve and restore earth buildings. During a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the fantastic pleasure of adding a bathroom accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for your Arts.

It's all regulated within the Shape

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

Building - Pressed adobe blocks, commonly known as as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured using a combination of present day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost completely dry and ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and more efficient installation for their uniformity of size and shape. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which boosts 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 whenever a simple mixture of earth and water is mixed to some near mud consistency. A combination will be laid in forms on the floor to mold the mud in to the desired brick configuration. The shape is lifted off of the adobe when the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape with no form. Following a day or two regarding, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process will take in one to a month to totally cure according to conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks with a more individual shape, size and look; no two bricks are very exactly the same. They supply for any 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 mixture 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 the their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then safe to use when applying inside their completed form. They are extremely energy efficient which help control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in Winter. They're also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and simply repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their 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. Additionally, additionally, it may serve as beautiful final plaster.

Brick - Beyond Adobe can be an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and ultizing 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 you may construct your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing from the bond beams, along with the installation of bucks and lentils, if neccessary.

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 with all of necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can get started. From your fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and my way through between, these house plans take into account land placement, views, and functionality for the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's real love is Design + Build Projects, where they assist 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 perhaps individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, that 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 through the entire Verde Valley, bringing one's heart with the company to its roots.

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

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