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A device for locking two building boards comprises a tongue element inserted into a groove a first building board. The tongue element comprises a spring having a plurality of wave arches. A groove is provided in a core of a second building board and corresponds to the groove of the first building board, such that when the groove of the first and second building boards overlap during a connection of the first and second building boards, by a vertical lowering movement, the first and second building boards are locked in a direction parallel to the visible side by the tongue element.

A device for locking two building boards comprises a tongue element inserted into a groove a first building board. The tongue element comprises a spring having a plurality of wave arches. A groove is provided in a core of a second building board and corresponds to the groove of the first building board, such that when the groove of the first and second building boards overlap during a connection of the first and second building boards, by a vertical lowering movement, the first and second building boards are locked in a direction parallel to the visible side by the tongue element.

The present invention provides a method of laying and mechanically joining panels, especially floor panels. In a first step a first panel is already located in a first row. A second panel is positioned in a second row in a first position in relation to the first panel. A third panel is now brought into the second row and into the first position in relation to the first panel. In this position, there is a mutual distance between the adjacent edges of the second and third panel. In a second step the second and third panel are angled into the third mutual position in relation to the first panel. Thereby, the second and third panel each achieve the possibility of easy displacement in the third direction in relation to the first panel. In a third step one or both of the second and third panel are moved in relation to the first panel. By this displacement the second and third panel get in a second position in relation to each other. An additional intermediate step may be employed between the first and the second step. In this intermediate step the second and third panel are angled down into the second mutual position in relation to the first panel.

A stone cladding system for building has a support frame formed by a plurality of spaced-apart upright mullions fixed to an exterior of a building by anchor bracket's with a number of horizontal cladding panel support rails mounted in vertically spaced apart rows on the mullions. Each stone cladding panel is mounted between at adjacent pair of vertically spaced-apart rails with a bottom of the cladding panel seated on the lowermost rail and a top of the cladding panel secured to the uppermost rail by a pair of retaining clips. A bottom of each stone cladding panel is fully supported along its length by the lowermost rail.

A semi-automatic reconstruction method of 3-D building models using building outline segments is introduced. The core technology of the present invention is called the “Split-Merge-Shape” algorithm. The Split and Merge processes sequentially reconstruct the topology between any roof-edges of the buildings and then reform them as enclosed regions. The Shape process uses height information and consecutive-coplanar analysis to determine the shapes and heights of the roofs. After generating polyhedral building models, prismatic building models can also be generated by using a semi-automatic procedure. An existing digital topographic map of buildings can be directly used to reconstruct their 3-D models without any excess stereo-measurements. In addition to cost reduction, high efficiency, high quality, and minimization of manual operations, the integration of photogrammetric mapping with 3-D building modeling in one procedure is possible, which is the most cost-effective approach for 3-D mapping.

Systems and methodologies that facilitate a search for construction equipment(s) (e.g., a welding terminal) via a locator component that searches a networked area as defined by a plurality of reference points. Upon locating a network address of the construction unit, a physical location of such unit on the network, or the reference points, can also be determined via employing technologies such as a Global Positioning System (GPS), angle and Time Difference of a Signal's Arrival (TDOA), probabilistic analysis of strength of a wireless signal with respect to the reference points and the like. Also, a composition of welding equipments employed on the construction site can be determined and / or configured.

A traffic signal mounting bracket for mounting a traffic signal on a post. The mounting bracket has a base, a cable, and a traffic signal attachment portion. The base is spaced apart from the post to maintain separation between the back of the base and the post. The cable is secured against rotation in a channel on the back of the base and extends rearwardly from the back of the base to loop around a post and is clamped between the front of the base and clamping blocks releasably attached thereto.

An engine room for construction equipment is provided, which can minimize emission of noise generated in an engine room due to driving of an engine and a ventilating fan to an outside of the engine room by absorbing the noise through a noise trap, and can improve the cooling performance of corresponding components by smoothing inhalation / discharge of an external air to / from the airtight engine room. The engine room for construction equipment includes a radiator cooling water for cooling the engine, a muffler discharging an exhaust gas from an engine to the atmosphere, a first noise trap installed in an inlet port to absorb noise generated in the engine room and emitted to an outside, a second noise trap installed in an outlet port to absorb the noise generated in the engine room and emitted to the outside, a radiator fan inhaling the external air through the first noise trap and making the inhaled external air pass through the radiator and the circumference of the engine, a discharge fan discharging the air in the engine room to the outside through the second noise trap, and an outer wall forming an airtight space for accommodating therein the engine, the muffler, the radiator fan, the hydraulic pump, and the discharge fan that generate the noise.

The invention discloses a high-altitude drill positioning method of a building, which comprises a high-altitude marking device, a high-altitude drilling device and a high-altitude tightening device. The high-altitude drill positioning method comprises the following steps that when a plurality of fixing holes need to be drilled in the top surface of the building, the length of an adjustment rod of the high-altitude marking device is adjusted to be equal to the distance between any two fixing holes; a support rod of the high-altitude marking device is adjusted, so that the altitude from the top end of a marking rod to the ground is equal to the altitude from the fixing holes to the ground; the marking end head is pressed to the top surface, so as to draw marking points of the two fixing holes; the high-altitude drilling device is placed below the fixing holes, and a handle is pressed downward, so that a drill which is fixedly arranged on drilling equipment aligns with the marking points of the fixing holes; the drilling equipment is turned on to drill the holes which conform to a size; one end of an expansion bolt, which is provided with a nut, is inserted into the top end of the high-altitude tightening device; the expansion end of the bolt is inserted into a drilled fixing hole, and then a handle of the high-altitude tightening device is rotated to tighten the expansion bolt; and the steps are repeated, so as to complete the drill tightening operation of the remaining fixing holes. According to the high-altitude drill positioning method, the disadvantages of low construction quality and large difficulty because no reliable application point exists at high altitude are overcome, the construction quality is guaranteed, various potential safety hazards due to high-altitude construction of construction personnel are avoided, and the construction efficiency is greatly increased.

A composite construction panel having a thin panel of concrete material and a reinforcing grid of sheet metal studs with embedment portions which are actually embedded into the concrete panel, each of the studs having a web, main web openings through the web, a right angular flange formed on a free edge of the web, an embedment angled flange portion formed along the opposite edge of the web, an edge strip formed on the angled flange at an angle thereto; and, spaced apart angled flange openings formed in the angled flange for flow of concrete therethrough. An alternate form of stud has a triangular tube structure along one edge of the web. Another form of stud has a discontinuous webs defining spaces between them. In one embodiment two concrete panels may be secured to the studs in spaced relation to create a hollow structure.

A construction kit comprises a plurality of building modules, wherein at least one of the building modules is functional and adapted to perform a specific behavior. In some embodiments, each of the building modules includes at least one connection face adapted to pass either data or power from a first face of a first building module to a first face of a second building module. In certain other embodiments, each connection face of the building modules is electrically connected with each of the other faces. The kit includes at least one connector adapted to couple the at least one functional module to at least one other module while providing up to three degrees of freedom between the functional module and the at least one other module.

A device for locking two building boards connected to one another in a direction (V) perpendicular to a visible side. The device includes a first building board with a lateral edge (I) and a first groove and running parallel to the visible side. The device further includes at least one second building board with a lateral edge (II) and with a second groove and running parallel to the visible side, and a locking element that is placed in the first groove of the first building board to engage in the second groove of the second building board, when both grooves have reached an overlapping position after the connection of the building boards by a vertical lowering movement.

Systems and methodologies that facilitate a search for construction equipment(s) (e.g., a welding terminal) via a locator component that searches a networked area as defined by a plurality of reference points. Upon locating a network address of the construction unit, a physical location of such unit on the network, or the reference points, can also be determined via employing technologies such as a Global Positioning System (GPS), angle and Time Difference of a Signal's Arrival (TDOA), probabilistic analysis of strength of a wireless signal with respect to the reference points and the like. Also, a composition of welding equipments employed on the construction site can be determined and / or configured.

Systems for deterring theft of retail products. Systems of this invention provide theft deterrent cabinets for dispensing products and may incorporate theft deterrent measures including mechanical deterrents, time delays and sound.

A method of constructing a virtual construction model, comprising: displaying a plurality of construction elements corresponding to respective types of construction elements, allowing a user to select one or more instances of each of the types of construction elements; maintaining a counter of available elements for each type of construction elements; decrementing said counter of available elements of a type of construction elements each time a user selects a construction element of said type; providing an indication to the user when the available number of construction elements of one of the types of construction elements has been used in the virtual construction model.