Patent ID: 8353131
Filing Date: 2013-01-15
Classification: E04B,E04C,E04D

Abstract:
1. A building system comprising: a load bearing post-and-beam frame defining a building and formed by horizontal structural members and vertical columns, wherein the vertical columns are located at ends of the horizontal structural members and the horizontal structural members extend along horizontal axes between the vertical columns, the horizontal structural members support building loads and transfer the loads to the vertical columns; a plurality of modular, non-structural-load-bearing, in-fill components that enclose and form a weather resistant exterior shell of the building, wherein the in-fill components have dimensions that are regulated by an alternating sequence of A and B units of measure, the in-fill components having dimensions based on NA+(N−1)B, where N is an integer greater than zero and A is greater than B, and wherein at least some of the in-fill components have different values of N, and wherein the non-structural-load-bearing in-fill components include wall panels, door panels and window panels wherein each of the in-fill components includes an extrusion that extends continuously along each of four perimeter faces of each of the in-fill components and circumscribes an edge between exterior and interior finish faces of each of the panels and defines four perimeter mating faces, and has a protrusion extending toward one of the adjacent in-fill component mating faces; a plurality of connectors connecting the adjacent in-fill components, each of the connectors engaging the protrusions extending from the adjacent in-fill components so that opposing parallel perimeter finish face edges of the adjacent in-fill components are separated by a standardized gap distance equal to the B unit of measure; and a mechanical weather strip located in the standardized gap between two of the adjacent in-fill components and covering a portion of the protrusions.