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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Adobe - Inside a perfect world everybody would plant a garden to understand the dear technique of allowing the sustainance we rely on. Also would it be ideal as we each knew the craft of building our own dwellings, in the sustainable way, in the earth as well as the Earth, in the kind of resillient and timeless beauty.

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

Not merely the Name, however the History

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

Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a qualification in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where also, he 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 managing a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe from the clay soils from the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona along 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 to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to old and new homes from the world's most energy-efficient and sturdy material: earth; and today expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to create their 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, both for urban and rural projects. They enjoy dealing with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. Within a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the great pleasure of adding your bathroom addition for the now expanded Old Town Center for that Arts.

To make sure within the Shape

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

Environment - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are made using 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 completely dry and ready for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, in the compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and much more efficient installation due to their uniformity of shape and size. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which increases the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be created 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 mixture will be laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud to the desired brick configuration. The proper execution is lifted off the adobe if the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape without the form. After having a few days associated with, the bricks are positioned on edge to dry. The drying process may take from to one month to fully cure according to climate conditions. Puddled adobes lead to bricks having a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are quite the same. They provide 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 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 blend of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents that 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 green in the their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then dependable when applying in their completed form. They're extremely energy-efficient which help control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in Winter. Also, they are non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and repairable.

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

Construction - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of yank Clay Earth Plasters. Stated in, and ultizing 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 may build 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. The house styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 sq . ft .. Home plans come adult with all necessary elements, and elevations ready for you to break ground. 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 to the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's true love is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; making use of 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 just individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, that is resilient, fire resistent and gorgeous, Beyond Adobe has launched their new number 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 Verde Valley, bringing the center with the company back to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a number of workshop opportunities like 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 school children in Northern Arizona, secondary school teachers in Southern Arizona, and also the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication information, scholarship opportunities, or join, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.

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