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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Arizona - In a perfect world everyone would plant a garden to know the valuable procedure for creating the sustainance we depend on. Also might it be ideal if we each knew the craft to build our very own dwellings, in a sustainable way, from your earth but for the Earth, inside a type of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not merely the Name, nevertheless the History

Beyond Adobe is surely an adobe block, also called 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 to 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 working for, 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 the clay soils with the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona together with his wife, Robin, and is constantly on the 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 old and new homes from the world's most energy efficient and sturdy material: earth; now expands to providing people with their greatest tool of: knowledge, to construct their very 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, 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, that they had the fantastic pleasure of adding a bathroom addition 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 kind of adobe brick you would like, and is capable of making custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to meet architectural demands. They'll use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, based on the client and circumstances.

Eco - Pressed adobe blocks, sometimes known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made 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 shape and size. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which boosts the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be produced in all seasons because of the reduced moisture content.

Handmade, or puddled, adobe bricks begin when a simple mix of earth and water is mixed to a near mud consistency. A combination is then laid in forms on the ground to mold the mud into the desired brick shape and size. The form is lifted from the adobe once the mud dries enough to keep the adobes shape without the form. After having a few days associated with, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process can take from one to four weeks to totally cure based on conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks with a more individual shape, size and appear; no two bricks are quite exactly the same. They supply for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed inside 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 makes bricks in 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 mixture of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents that can come from natural, non-toxic oxides and ochre mineral pigments. The plasters create stunning moods of their own, and a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.

Natural clay plasters are organic and environmentally friendly in the their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then dependable when applying in their completed form. They're extremely power efficient which 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 repairable.

Beyond Adobe produces their own true, earth plaster. The plaster could be partially stabilized with lime or Portland cement. This earth plaster makes excellent base coats both for adobe and straw bale walls. Additionally, it can also work as beautiful final plaster.

Arizona - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of yankee Clay Earth Plasters. Produced in, and using 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 may make your adobe walls per your building plans. Construction services include footing with the bond beams, along with the installing bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe 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 necessary elements, and elevations ready so that you can get started. 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 soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; using their knowledge in good design, along 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 simply those with curiosity for Mud Construction, that is resilient, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start out with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 throughout the Verde Valley, bringing one's heart of the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a variety of workshop opportunities like a green building educational resource, and has taught all age brackets and skill levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders throughout the Southwest, plus youngsters in Northern Arizona, secondary school teachers in Southern Arizona, and also 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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