Patent ID: 6550213
Filing Date: 2003-04-22
Classification: E02D,E04B,E04G

Abstract:
A method of forming a foundation slab for a building and, at a later time, a frame of the same building, both with metal girts, the method comprising:laying out upon the surface of the earth a multiplicity of metal girts in the pattern of the foundation slab for the building; connecting with connector members the multiplicity of girts one to the next at an identical separation as the girts will in the future later assume and have in the building later-erected upon the foundation slab with the selfsame girts, the connected girts collectively constituting a frame of dimensions exactly as correspond to the building to be in the future erected with the selfsame girts; and supporting with mechanical supports the frame of connected girts level above the surface of the earth whereupon the frame then constitutes a form defining a perimeter of the foundation slab; placing flowable hardenable construction material upon the surface of the earth within the supported form to subsequently harden as the foundation slab; disconnecting, at a time after the foundation slab hardens, the selfsame girts as were both (i) joined, and (ii) supported as the form for the foundation slab, from both the hardened construction material of the foundation slab and from each other; and erecting the building upon the foundation slab using the disconnected girts as structural framing components for the building; wherein the disconnected girts serve to accurately frame the building upon the foundation slab because it was the girt's own dimensions, properly spaced in separation, that did create the very foundation slab upon which the building is now erected.