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7631466 Methods and apparatus for controlling moisture in straw bale core walls  
A moisture control system for a straw bale core wall having an air pathway from the foundation of the wall to its bond beam permitting air to be pumped into the wall at the foundation level and up...
7571576 Decking system  
An apparatus for use in forming a deck includes a platform having alternating elevated and depressed sections defining a plurality of troughs for receiving a hardenable fill material such as...
7571577 Blast protective barrier system  
A blast protective barrier system, termed a blast wall, providing a security perimeter or boundary at and above a ground level definable in terms of an x, y, z coordinate system, includes several...
7530203 Pre-cast concrete wall with truss ledge  
A pre-cast concrete wall system that incorporates a truss ledge for positioning a building floor system at a below-grade location. The truss ledge is defined by a vertical wall formed as a...
7493731 Insert type removable built model  
An insert type building model, comprising layer members, wall members and accessories such as doors and windows. Said layer members are jointed to one another with joint pieces embedded at jointing...
7461486 Methods and apparatus for controlling moisture in straw bale core walls  
A moisture control system for a straw bale core wall in which gravity fed moisture from the bales is collected in a sump at the foundation level and drained away, while an airspace is provided...
7461488 Internally braced straw bale wall and method of making same  
Systems and methods of internally bracing straw bales during construction of a straw bale wall using ladder structures that eliminate the need for external bracing and form a permanent part of the...
7426808 Method of forming concrete building modules  
A method of constructing a concrete module having several interconnected walls and defining a portion of a building includes the steps of forming two pitch walls, each pitch wall having a wall...
7219474 Load bearing building panel  
A load bearing building panel ( 10 ) is composed of light weight concrete and reinforcing within the panel body ( 11 ) adjacent to the first and second major faces ( 12, 13 ). The reinforcing ( 18,...
6931806 Concrete forming system and method  
A system and method for forming concrete structures, using foam panels as forms, supported by vertical tracks with horizontal bridge pieces inserted through the forms. The bridge pieces are in the...
6920728 Column and beam construction and method  
Site cast or pre-cast columns aligned and braced by pre-cast pre-stressed floor beams are used to erect a concrete skeleton structure for a building. The ends of the horizontal beams are imbedded...
6907709 Concrete construction material and method of use  
A method for constructing concrete building units comprises forming and pouring a concrete floor on a floor platform, providing interior wall forms on said concrete floor, providing door frames,...
6860075 Device for surface treatment and/or coating and/or producing construction elements, in particular, flat construction elements of glass, glass alloys or metals, by a continuous process  
A device for surface-treating, coating or producing construction elements in a continuous process has production chambers arranged successively closely adjacent to one another in a direction of...
6807790 Ring beam/lintel system  
The present invention allows the planner of a multi-storey building project to remove concrete from the critical path of the structure and envelope completion. The system of the present invention...
6745421 Abutment with seismic restraints  
An abutment especially adapted for use with a bridge is provided which incorporates lateral containment elements which prevent undesirable lateral shifting or movement of the bridge during a...
6625943 Building interior construction system and method  
An assembly and method for constructing a building having an interior with a loft style or appearance. The assembly and method of present invention discloses a form assembly that is used to form...
6570950 Nuclear plant containment with prefabricated component support structure  
A nuclear steam supply containment system employing prefabricated component supports that are surrounded by steel concrete forms and anchored to the floor liner of a nuclear containment. The...
6568139 Bridge structure with concrete deck having precast slab  
A precast concrete slab for forming a deck in a bridge superstructure has a chamfer on forward and trailing edges so that adjacent slabs can mate. The slab is reinforced with bars which protrude...
6493996 Modular building construction system  
A prefabricated room module ( 1 ) is provided for use in the construction of a modular building. The room module comprises a floor slab ( 2 ) of generally rectangular shape in plan, and load...
6463702 Concrete safe room  
A system for forming a safe room including a plurality of preformed concrete wall panels and a roof panel. Each panel includes an extension portion and a top beam which together define a shelf. The...
6442908 Open web dissymmetric beam construction  
An improved structural framing system and associated method of construction is disclosed wherein an open web dissymmetric steel beam fabricated having a plurality of trapezoidal openings formed...
6397535 Height-adjustable concrete mold supporting system and method for constructing concrete building  
Disclosed are a height-adjustable concrete mold supporting system and a method for constructing concrete floors and concrete walls, by which a concrete building can be easily and precisely...
6385930 Concrete structure and method of making it  
A novel and simple method of making a novel concrete slab structure supported on vertical columns ( 1 ) and having high strength against punching shear failure involves: placing stirrup cages ( 3,...
6293063 Cast-in-place hybrid building system  
A pre-cast concrete form for cast-in-place beams and columns and a method of forming the same. The form includes a form body having a channel through a length thereof and a shear bonding key along...
6256951 Lateral bracing system  
A lateral bracing system for one or two story frame structures utilizing a sheet member having a first portion with first and second opposite edges spanning a pair of vertical supports in the...
6250031 Double slope beam in two halves  
The present invention concerns a double slope beam in vibrated or pre-compressed reinforced concrete, composed of two complementary halves or semi-beams (10) each with a reinforcing framework and...
6244005 Modular wall system  
A precast wall panel has forms for flanges and a lintel embedded in place. Upon erection of the panel over a precast footing having an anchoring trough, this trough, the flanges and lintel may all...
6237291 Floor receiving concrete block  
A concrete block is provided for integrated use directly above the footing whereby the block has one unobstructed longitudinally extending single cell half the block depth. The remaining opposing...
6233891 Prefabricated building system  
A prefabricated building system for constructing a building structure. The prefabricated building system includes a plurality of panels each comprising an outer shell substantially surrounding an...
6233502 Fault tolerant connection system for transiently connectable modular elements  
A system and method for transiently connecting modular elements of a self movable robot. The self movable robot is known as metamorphosing robots, polymorphic robots, shape changing robots, or...
6226938 Concrete pool deck and pool wall support for swimming pool construction  
A swimming pool deck and pool wall support that includes a unitary shell member defining two vertically extending chambers each filled with concrete. At a first end of the shell member the chambers...
6119413 Concrete deck and beam seismic retrofit system  
A method of seismically strengthening a structure having a concrete beam mechanically coupled to a concrete deck. The method comprises forming a continuous, substantially linear bore through the...
6026622 Predetermined crack-joint  
Contraction joint rail for fitting in a wall (4) to be concreted and the use of such a rail which consists of a strip-like bar (1) with a device fitted to it forming an injection channel (2)...
6018917 Inserted holdown for shearwalls  
A method for anchoring a specialized structural member having an internal cavity to a foundation to resist uplift forces imposed on the structural member. Structural members having interior...
5934036 Insulated concrete slab assembly  
An insulated concrete slab assembly for use over expansive soils. A slab is cast in place by pouring concrete into preshaped insulating forms. The forms remain permanently in place and provide...
5887405 Precast integral structure elements and procedure for the fast construction of buildings with such elements  
The present invention refers to the improvements made to precast integral structure elements used in the fast construction of several-floor buildings made with hollow core slabs that have the same...
5873207 Coupling between two structural elements and spatial structure with such couplings  
A coupling is provided between two structural elements, each comprising at least one part having tensively strong gauze formed for instance of metal such as steel, which parts can be registered in...
5845441 Premanufactured portable concrete house  
This invention provides a premanufactured portable concrete house and efficient systems for making such a house and for providing portability to a housing site. Floor, roof, and wall components are...
5799453 Structure and method of fabrication  
A building structure has an outer shell including sidewalls and an integrated roof projecting upwardly therefrom. The sidewall and roof include an inner plurality of supporting studs with a mesh...
5782050 Two-piece corner tie  
A two-piece corner tie includes first and second tie halves which are removably connected together. The first tie half includes forward and rearward form panel retainers for holding form panels in...
5704174 Prefabricated industrial floor  
A prefabricated industrial floor for forming a multi-storey prefabricated structure consisting of an interlocking node frame with a capital totally contained within the floor thickness (19), formed...
5664377 Apparatus and method to a ground surface foundation  
There is disclosed a new and improved apparatus and method for forming a cast-in-place and on-the-ground support system. The support system is especially useful in maintaining a levelled and secure...
5653067 Roofing system comprising tiles alternating with roofing beam members  
A roofing system for industrial buildings is based on a plurality of self-supporting tiles (10), prefabricated from reinforced concrete, having a generally "V"-shaped cross-section, wherein the...
5638652 Concrete-filled steel bearing wall  
A concrete-filled steel bearing earthquake resistant wall which has combined resistance to shearing forces exerted in the surface plane thereof has connecting members (1), a pair of surface steel...
5634308 Module combined girder and deck construction  
A structural module has a cast concrete portion and a girder. The concrete portion has a reinforced deck with a reinforced load bearing a diaphragm at opposite ends. The girder extends between the...
5611179 Adjustable foundation plate  
An adjustable foundation-to-frame member connection including a foundation, a frame member and an adjustable foundation plate connector attached to the foundation and frame member by a frame...
5609005 Foundation connector for tilt-up concrete wall panel and method of use  
A series of metal connectors each have parallel anchor rods welded to the shorter flange of a right angle section, a cavity defining member attached to the wider flange, and right angle mounting...
5581961 Portal frame system  
A precast concrete portal frame system includes two column sections and a rafter section, each of which are pre-cast off-site, each column section extending integrally toward a plane of symmetry of...
5531535 Double connector for connecting two bodies  
The double connector for connecting two bodies, especially for connecting two slabs of stone, marble or the like, consists of two anchoring elements (4,5), one in each body being connected, and a...
5493836 Building system based upon preformed modules  
This invention refers to an improved modular system for housing based upon preformed reinforced concrete modules (ferro-cement). Different modules provide for fast and simple interconnection to...
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