Patent ID: 9663937
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: E04B

Claim:
1. A method for constructing a building using a building structural support frame and a plurality of building modules comprising: constructing, at a building site, a building structural frame comprising horizontal and vertical beams joined such that a plurality of bays exist between the horizontal beams and the vertical beams; positioning an intermodal shipping container, having a building module included inside the intermodal shipping container where the inside of the intermodal shipping container lacks a pallet, adjacent to one of the bays of the building structural frame; opening doors of the intermodal shipping container in order to slideably remove the building module; securing the intermodal shipping container to the building structural frame via a coupler between the intermodal shipping container and the building structural frame; and once the intermodal shipping container is secured to the building structural frame with its doors open, slideably removing the building module from the container through the open doors of the intermodal shipping container and sliding the building module from the intermodal shipping container directly into the bay until the building module is outside the intermodal shipping container and until the building module is fully supported within the bay by the building structural support frame, wherein the building is a multiple story building having bays for insertion of the building modules at each story, said method further comprising: installing a plurality of building modules within the plurality of bays, starting at the topmost story bays and working downwards, so that the uppermost building modules are installed within the building first.