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Format: Live-Instruction Workshop in Albuquerque, NM area
Date: May 19, 2024
Workload: 8 hours (9am to 5pm)
Instructor: Issac Logsdon
Fee: $150
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Description: Adobe in Action's next "Owner Builder Support Workshop" is being offered on May 19, 2024 (Sunday) in conjunction with an ongoing Owner Builder Support Project in the Albuquerque, NM area. This workshop will be a full day of intensive adobe blockmaking with a special focus on low-cost equipment and strategies for owner builders.

Topic Overview: importance of respiratory and eye safety when making adobe blocks, helpful tools and materials for adobe blockmaking, importance of work site and material organization for larger-scale adobe blockmaking, locating and testing soils for use in adobe blockmaking, clay minerals and aggregates and their role in the adobe mix, mixing mud in a wheelbarrow, mixing mud in a barrel mixer, making adobe blocks with a 2-block form, basic adobe block drying and storing sequence, different methods of field testing your adobe blocks for strength

PLEASE NOTE: Due to site safety protocols this workshop will be limited to a maximum of 8 participants.