Massive construction system using rock masonry

Abstract

A construction system for massive dwellings or alike; a unit shall be built in 5 days after preliminary work. First, shall be prepared precast items: sills and headers, using templates and reinforcing them to resist shear and diagonal stresses; and exterior and interior wall molds to use numerous times. Then foundation shall be set to have a slab floor with pipes inside a steel structure, and wall molds erected on each side of it, following a predetermined color and graphic code. Afterwards, shall be inserted precasts and all openings of building to pour concrete masonry and form a monolithic structure. A steel structure shall be embedded on top of walls for anchoring concrete T-beams. A material to insulate and form a stem of said T-beams shall be put on platform surface, and then a metallic mesh for reinforcing said T-beams, and for setting pipes, lastly, concrete shall be poured over.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] Not applicable. STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH [0002] Not applicable. REFERENCE TO A SEQUENCE LISTING, A TABLE OR A COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTING COMPACT DISC APPENDIX [0003] Not applicable. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0004] 1. Field of Invention [0005] This patent application falls in the “Construction System's” field. It is a method to produce massively dwellings or any buildings at an affordable cost from preliminary planning to all other construction steps: foundation, walls, roofing, finishing, cleaning and delivering. The System is using several prior arts, which are improved and combined together to accomplish a method capable to produce high volumes of dwellings at an affordable cost, and in a short lapse, and without employing expertise labor. [0006] 2. Description of Prior Art [0007] (a) Masonry Wall Construction [0008] Masonry wall construction is a very old building practice; in the Greek island of Thera (known...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

[0034] The use of the present invention not only will provide housing and related buildings to a world wide exploding population at a fair cost.

[0035] The present invention starts the construction process by obtaining information of the working conditions and requirements, in order to do a specific design and plan of action. Consequently, an open forum of discussion for the design solutions regarding budget and time frame, evaluating resources and geographical limitations for example weather and seismic conditions. Traditional and social constraints will also be considered. All this intellectual and technical implementation in comparison with other construction systems, which only follow traditions without making the players part of the solution, provide a further education for the personnel involved in the use of the present invention.

[0036] Another object of the present invention is to provide the necessary training to the work force in order to use

Problems solved by technology

This practice was successful but slow.

Although Romans accomplished such long standing constructions using a system of “lost molds” (two parallel brick walls for casting masonry,) had to withstand a time-consuming production since these brick molds were incapable to hold the lateral forces of all the liquid mortar necessary to fill said lost molds to the expected height in one pour, as a result was done in rows after rows.

In addition, delivery of materials and their reception with all the clerical work involved has to be handled, making the whole process time consuming and highly costly.

Connecting metallic members with nails or setting directions is difficult, that on occasions workers who do not understand instructions skip them and supervisors do not notice that omission, and as a consequence the desired quality of the structure is not quite accomplished.

Although metallic framing is better than wood framing regarding termites and flammability, requires more specialized labor and tight supervision making the system

Images