Patent ID: 7802406

Claim:
A generally planar, rectilinear, skin-panel sub-frame having spaced, upper, lower and lateral edges, and designed to occupy, along with other like sub-frames, an upright plane adjacent the outside of a plural-story building frame, and to possess a vertical dimension which is substantially the same as inter-floor story-height in the frame, and where the frame supports building infrastructure in the form of plural, poured-in-place concrete, vertically spaced floor structures, said sub-frame comprising an elongate beam component defining the sub-frame's upper edge, and plural interconnect-accommodating site structures formed in and distributed along the length of said elongate beam component, including a first, upwardly facing site-structure set, and a second, laterally inwardly facing site-structure set, said first and second site-structure sets defining orthogonally intersecting interconnect planes, said first site-structure set accommodating a first position-stabilizing and load-transferring inter-sub-frame interconnection between a pair of vertically next-adjacent sub-frames, and said second site-structure set including plural bores formed in said elongate beam accommodating a second position-stabilizing and load-transferring interconnection between a sub-frame and a floor structure in the mentioned building infrastructure, and said second position-stabilizing and load-transferring interconnection, for each of said bores, taking the form of an elongate, unitary, generally horizontal load-transfer element in the configuration of a rod having one end affixed to said sub-frame's elongate beam component within a bore therein, and having its opposite end embedded within a floor structure.