Patent ID: 6073401
Filing Date: 2000-06-13
Classification: E04B

Abstract:
A building unit which is a framing structure, comprising:a generally rectangularly configured structure comprised of steel footing beams for fixating to concrete footings;a plurality of assembled structural framing members for carrying all load bearing forces experienced by said building unit, said standard framing members comprising a plurality of open columns and an equal plurality of floor beams connected to the columns, said columns each having respective upper and lower ends, upper and lower end portions delineating said ends, and corresponding upper and lower endplates attached to said end portions, each of said endplates closings said upper and lower end portions and having a centralized hole therein, wherein the floor beams are connected to at least one of said steel footing beams and said columns, wherein the floor beams connect with said columns at said endplates and said floor beams connect with said columns at a respective lower ends thereof; andceiling members which are non-structural framing members, said ceiling members for supporting ceiling panels thereon, said ceiling members fixed to said columns near said upper ends thereof, said ceiling members hanging from each of said columns such that the load bearing forces which are transferred through said structural framing members are not transferred into said ceiling members.