692results about "Cellars" patented technology

A building monitoring computer system for monitoring building integrity may be provided. Various types of sensors may be embedded throughout or within certain portions of different types of building or construction material making up the building, such as within roofing, foundation, or structural materials. The sensors may be in wireless communication with a home controller. The sensors may be water, moisture, temperature, vibration, or other types of sensors, and may detect unexpected or abnormal conditions within the home. The sensors and/or home controller may transmit alerts to a mobile device of the home owner associated with the unexpected condition, and/or that remedial actions may be required to repair the home or mitigate further damage to the home. The sensor data may also be communicated to an insurance provider remote server to facilitate the insurance provider communicating insurance-related recommendations, updating insurance policies, or preparing insurance claims for review for home owners.

Construction systems for erecting budding structures comprise a plurality of prefabricated interconnectable modular budding units, each unit comprising framing members and a plurality of nodes, each node situated for selective interconnection with other units, the nodes and the exterior dimensions of the frame conforming to ISO shipping standards such that each unit is transportable using the ISO intermodal transportation system, and such that when the units are interconnected, a building structure is formed. The modular units are assembled at a remote location, and are there constructed to a semi-finished state, following which the semi-finished modular units are transported from the remote location to the job site, where they are secured to form the structure being erected, and the semi-finished modular units are thereafter constructed to a finished state.

A lateral force resisting system includes a rigid structural panel and holdowns. A foundation bolt placement template may be used to locate and support the foundation bolts during fabrication of the foundation and to further secure the frame foundation interface. The rigid structural panel may be a vertical truss or a rigid structural frame with a wooden panel covering one side and interconnecting the members of the rigid structural frame. The wooden panel may be made up of multiple panes to tailor the response of the panel to the lateral force load. The holdowns secure the rigid structural panel to the foundation bolts and may be either a folded strap and pin embodiment or self-tightening.

An insulating panel to be used in a panelized insulation system for insulating and finishing walls, including basement walls has a foam core made of inorganic materials. The system incorporates a capillary break, an integrated water drainage system and an electrical wire chase system within an insulating wall panel. Vertical slots are provided for insertion of metal studs for use in attaching the interior finish panel, such as inorganic fiber cement board with a vinyl laminate finish, onto the insulating panels. Embedding metal studs in the panel core reduces the sound transmission though the panel and eliminates thermal bridging between warm and cold surfaces. Steps on the edges and the top/bottom surfaces of the insulating panel allow more panels to join together with shiplap joints.

A tough building system and buildings and associated accessories which make such structures more versatile. Support accessories can include a fiber-reinforced polymeric composite support bracket, adapted to be mounted to a top of a foundation wall, and to support an edge of a slab of concrete adjacent the top of the foundation wall, or to support brick fascia, or to support ends of floor joists adjacent an inner surface of said foundation wall. Support accessories can also include a load-bearing, and load distributing support pad, adapted to be used as an interface support/footer between an underlying natural base and an overlying constructed structure. The support pad has a plurality of fiber-reinforced polymeric layers, optionally stacked one on top of the other. The pad has a load bearing capacity of at least 1000 pounds per square foot. The support pad may be a pultruded product.

A foundation system includes metal framing members that support a reinforced, lightweight, dimensionally stable cementitious panel. The foundation system is non-combustible, water durable, mold and rot resistant, and termite resistant. The panels employ one or more layers of a continuous phase resulting from the curing of an aqueous mixture of inorganic binder, for example, calcium sulfate alpha hemihydrate, hydraulic cement, an active pozzolan and lime. The continuous phase is reinforced with glass fibers and contains lightweight filler particles, for example, ceramic microspheres.

The present invention relates to the field of construction of underground buildings, specifically to an inverse construction method for a deep, large and long pit assembling structure of a suspension-type envelope enclosure. A method includes design and calculation; engineering construction of foundation piles; control over underground water; construction of a pit enclosure; building of a basement reinforcing and anti-seeping layer; inverse construction; and floor structure construction. By the inverse construction method for a deep, large and long pit assembling structure of a suspension-type envelope enclosure of the present invention, the pit construction quality is easily controlled, the basement is well waterproofed and easily monitored, and the quality control, service and maintenance are easy.

A system for forming an insulating vapor barrier in a building is especially suited for forming an insulating vapor barrier in a crawl space beneath a building. The system includes a series of separate vapor barrier panels that can be attached around a wall. A ground level vapor barrier can be sealed to the insulating vapor barrier panels, which can be sealed to each other and along a top edge to the wall. The individual vapor barrier panels include an insulating foam member with a vapor resistant liner laminated thereto and extending beyond the edges of the insulating foam member to provide space for securing and sealing multiple vapor barrier panels to form a continuous insulating vapor barrier. Mechanical or hook and loop fasteners can be provided to secure the top edges of the vapor barrier liners to the wall and bottom edges to a ground liner.

A tough, water-proof building system, and methods of making the system elements and constructing buildings, which provides wall, ceiling, and floor structural panels and corresponding walls, ceilings, and floors,. The walls can be designed to have vertical and horizontal strengths sufficient to be used in place of concrete, as an engineered solution, both above grade and below-grade, including in severe weather conditions, such that no concrete need be used except for floor slabs. Panels have inner and outer layers, and structurally reinforcing members. Structurally-reinforcing members extend, typically as a layer and/or stud, the full height of a wall, at spaced locations along the length of the wall. Spaces between the structurally reinforcing members are optionally filled with rigid foam. An optional reinforcing stud is attached to, or overlaid by, the inner layer, and extends inwardly into the building from what is otherwise the inner surface of the building panel.

A wall framing system for supporting an interior wall in spaced proximity to an exterior wall includes one or more stud members extending between upper and lower frame channel members, which are configured to self-locate in relation to the exterior wall in a manner which establishes a moisture and air barrier between the exterior wall and the interior wall supported by the wall framing system. The interior wall supported by the wall framing system is resistant to moisture degradation, and maintains desired R-value insulation properties throughout the wall.

Waterproof insulating panels 110 are attached to waterproof furring strips 112 installed on an interior surface 113 of a concrete basement wall 800 to create air cavities 150 enclosed therebetween which are in communication with the upper story of a house. A heating cable along the base of the air cavities 150 warms the air therein, such that moist air in the air cavities rises to the upper story of the house and away from the basement bringing the moisture with it, keeping the humidity level of the basement air lower. Finish panels 120 are connected to the insulating panels.

A building structure comprising a footing (21b), wherein the footing (21b) includes a channel (23), and at least one panel (24), wherein the panel (24) is located within said channel (23), wherein the footing (21b) is disposed on a waterproofing membrane (22) which membrane extends along side walls of the footing (21b) and into said channel (23) and wherein the panel (24) has an external waterproofing membrane (25) that is in waterproof engagement with the membrane of the footing (21b) in the channel (23) and wherein the waterproofing membranes (22, 25) comprise an absorptive clay disposed between water permeable layers.

An apparatus and method for interconnecting concrete precast floor and wall panels is provided. More specifically, one embodiment of the present invention includes an adjustable connector with a captive nut that is embedded into a wall panel. A floor panel that includes an aperture integrated therethrough is placed adjacent to the adjustable connector wherein the captive nut therein may be positioned in line with the aperture. A threaded rod is then placed through the aperture of the floor panel and a nut is placed thereon thus providing a secure interconnection between the floor panel and the wall panel.

A modular wall system for a building structure that includes a plurality of pre-fabricated wall sections that are attachable to each other to form the foundation for the building structure. Each wall section forms the entire length of a wall of the foundation. The wall sections include a plurality of steel studs having a track attached thereto at the top and bottom, at least one structural insulated panel attached to the studs, and at least one waterproofing sheet attached to the outer surface of the structural insulated panels to allow the wall sections to be used below-grade.

The present invention relates to a container house 200 having structural stability and including: a main body 210 having an inner space and a passage connecting the inside to the outside; and a plurality of piles 220 firmly fixing the main body to the ground, wherein the plurality of piles vertically pass through the main body and stick in the ground. The present invention has the advantage in which the main body is firmly fixed to the ground, wherein the main body may be conveniently and easily fixed to the ground by using the piles that pass through corner portions of the main body to stick in the ground. That is, since the single or multi-storied main body is fixed to the ground due to the plurality of piles that firmly stick in the ground, the container house may be stably maintained even through natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and the like. Thus, it is possible to comfortably live in poor surroundings such as a desert and grassland.

The invention discloses a 360-degree underground waterproof structure system and a construction method thereof. A basement is arranged on a cushion layer and comprises a bottom plate, side walls, a top plate and a permanent protection wall; the bottom plate, the side walls and the top plate are formed by pouring waterproof concrete FS102; waterproof paste layers FS101 and waterproof mortar layers FS101 are arranged on the outer sides of the bottom plate and the top plate from inside to outside; a waterproof mortar layer FS101 and a waterproof paste layer FS101 are arranged between the bottom layer and the cushion layer from top to bottom; the permanent protection wall is used as a waterproof guide wall which is arranged on the outer side of the bottom plate; and a waterproof mortar layer FS101 and a fine aggregate concrete layer coping are arranged above the permanent protection wall from bottom to top. The 360-degree underground waterproof structure system is easy to operate; waterproof mortar FS101 and waterproof paste FS101 products are stable in performance and can effectively prevent water when smeared at the periphery of the basement; the permeability resistance is high, and retraction and cracking are not liable to cause; and by two-layer protection, water permeation can be effectively prevented, and the waterproofing stability of the basement is improved.

The invention discloses an intensified permanent support assembly type basement structure system and a construction method. The system comprises a basement outer wall and a basement floor with basement structures, and single row or multiple rows of support piles for supporting a foundation pit; a crown beam at the top of the single row of support piles is cast with a concrete construction road on the outer side of the foundation pit as a whole; outer extending supports are arranged between the basement outer wall and the support piles; the crown beam is arranged at the tops of the support piles; the adjacent rows of support piles are connected through the crown beam; and the basement outer wall and the basement floor both adopt prefabricated plates. On the basis of the foundation pit adopting a permanent support structure, the basement part adopts an assembled structure, so that the field construction is convenient and fast, the structure quality is easy to guarantee, the production efficiency can be effectively promoted, the construction garbage is reduced to a greater extent, the organic combination of permanence of the support structure and assembly of the basement structure can be realized, and the organic unification of building structure design and support structure design is realized.