Portable core facility for a building
OwnerJohn P. Hawkinsinventor
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Abstract
A prefabricated building module constructed at a central location and delivered to a construction site via shipping using the intermodal freight transport system and having cold formed wood bracing walls to resist forces in shear and uplift while providing a continuous load path to the foundation system. The module may include interior walls to section the module into rooms and further comprises mechanical, electrical, utility and plumbing aspects of a building, capable of inspection and certification prior to delivery to the construction site. Once arrived at the construction site the building module is anchored to the building foundation and the remainder of the house is built around the building module.
Claims13
A portable core facility for a building, comprising:
- one or more mechanical rooms;
- one or more kitchens;
- one or more electrical panels;
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- one or more bathrooms configured within said portable core facility;
- wherein said portable core facility further comprises:
- a plurality of bracing walls configured as a building module to form a generally rectangular box-like shape having a top, bottom and four sides, and each of the top, bottom and four sides comprises layers of wood strips bonded together;
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- corner castings located at upper and lower corners of the portable core facility in accordance with standard intermodal shipping containers capable of being transported by an existing intermodal system from a manufacturing facility to a construction site and anchored, via said corner castings, to at least one of a foundation system, a roof or a floor diaphragm, such that each of the bracing walls resist forces in shear and uplift while providing a continuous load path to the foundation system, and each of the corner castings comprises a plurality of plate connectors extending therefrom, and each plate connector is planar and secured to a respective timber rail of the portable core facility.
A portable core facility for a building, comprising:
- bracing walls configured as a building module to form a generally rectangular box-like shape having a top, bottom and four sides, and each of the top, bottom and four sides comprises layers of wood strips bonded together;
- corner castings, each located at a respective upper or lower corner of the portable core facility in accordance with standard intermodal shipping containers capable of being transported by an existing intermodal system from a manufacturing facility to a construction site, the corner castings on the lower corners anchor the portable core facility to a foundation system, each corner casing comprises plate connectors that extend therefrom, each plate connector is planar and secured to a respective timber rail of the portable core facility, such that each of the bracing walls resists forces in shear and uplift while providing a continuous load path to the foundation system;
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- a mechanical room, a kitchen and a bathroom, each configured within the portable core facility.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.