Reinforcing steel skeletal framework

A method for forming a composite reinforcing steel skeletal framework on a building structure, including:

• placing a plurality of modular preformed skeletal steel panels side-by-side in a row on the building structure to form a panel assembly on the building structure,
• covering an outer face of the panel assembly with an outer steel mesh mat to form the composite reinforcing steel skeletal framework,
• each preformed skeletal steel panel comprising at least two mesh layers supported spaced-apart in parallel planes by intermediate spacers extending between the layers, each spacer comprising a cross member engaged with a first one of the layers, the cross member having outwardly extending legs at opposite ends of the cross member, each leg terminating in a foot which engages with a second one of the layers, the cross member, legs and feet being mutually perpendicular,
• wherein each preformed skeletal steel panel has a plurality of spaced-apart outwardly projecting splice bars for interengaging with an adjacent preformed skeletal steel panel in the panel assembly for interlocking the preformed skeletal steel panels in the panel assembly.