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

For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ

Design - Inside a perfect world everybody would plant a garden to understand the dear process of creating the sustainance we depend on. Also might it be ideal when we each knew the craft of creating our own dwellings, in a sustainable way, from your earth and for the Earth, inside a form of resillient and timeless beauty.

Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for more than Two decades, is providing this using 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 history of earth stewardship, environmental consciousness plus 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 qualification 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 owning a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe in the clay soils with the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona 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 methods to old and new homes out from the world's most energy efficient and sturdy material: earth; and now expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of most: 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 entire American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for both urban and rural projects. They like working together with individuals and communities alike to develop, preserve and restore earth buildings. During a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they'd the great pleasure of adding your bathrooms addition to the now expanded Old Town Center for that Arts.

To make sure inside the Shape

Beyond Adobe will make any size, shape, or form of adobe brick you want, and is also capable of making 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, depending on the client and circumstances.

Workshops - Pressed adobe blocks, best known as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are manufactured 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, in the compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and much 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 produced in most seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.

Made by hand, or puddled, adobe bricks begin whenever a simple combination of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mixture will then be laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud into the desired brick shape and size. The form is lifted from the adobe when the mud dries enough to help keep the adobes shape without the form. After a day or two of sunshine, the bricks are placed on edge to dry. The drying process will take from to four weeks to completely cure according to weather conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks having a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are quite the same. They provide for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in the finished wall.

Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and those with difficult access, site made adobes often perform best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe makes bricks from 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 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, plus 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 dependable when applying within their completed form. They may be extremely power efficient which help control temperature and humidity fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in Winter. They're also non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and easily 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 both for adobe and straw bale walls. Additionally, additionally, it may function as beautiful final plaster.

Building - Beyond Adobe can also be an officially certified installer of American Clay Earth Plasters. Manufactured 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 that you may make your adobe walls per the dwelling plans. Construction services include footing through the bond beams, plus the installing of bucks and lentils, if required.

Beyond Adobe offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and range between 450 to 1650 square feet. Home plans come adult effortlessly 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 consideration land placement, views, and functionality for the eco-friendly max.

Beyond Adobe's real love is Design + Build Projects, where help 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 dedication to maintaining and preserving the indigenous methods and materials of earth building.

DYI

For the true DYI Owner/Builder, or simply individuals with curiosity for Mud Construction, which can be long-lasting, fire resistent and lovely, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 through the entire Verde Valley, bringing the heart with the company to its roots.

Beyond Adobe offers a variety of workshop opportunities being a green building educational resource, and possesses 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 class 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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