Patent ID: 8516777

Claim:
A structural outer wall in a building, comprising (a) an uprightly-oriented fiber-reinforced polymeric structural building panel, said building panel overlying a footer, said building panel having a height of at least 8 extending between a top and a bottom of said building panel, a length, and a thickness (T) of a main wall section thereof of at least 3 inches, said structural building panel comprising (i) first outermost fiber-reinforced structural polymeric layer; (ii) a second innermost fiber-reinforced structural polymeric layer spaced from said first layer and (iii) one or more structurally reinforcing webs, spaced from each other, and extending from said first fiber-reinforced polymeric layer to said second fiber-reinforced polymeric layer, said fiber in said first layer, said second layer, and said reinforcing webs being predominantly uprightly-oriented, continuous fiber strands, in said uprightly-oriented structural building panel, said building panel having a weight of about 25to about 60 pounds per lineal foot, said polymer in said first layer, said second layer, and said reinforcing webs being reaction cured polymer, said outer wall being subjected to an overlying building load, and delivering such overlying building load to the footer such that the delivered load generally varies by less than about 50 percent along any one 10foot length of the footer.