Patent ID: 7356970

Claim:
A metal building, comprising: a) a slab that supports a plurality of walls that meet at a plurality of corners and that are formed of generally vertically oriented metal panels, each wall having a wall outer surface and a wall inner surface, the metal panels including wall panels each having an enlarged planar front panel with inner and outer surfaces and opposing wall panel edge portions connected to opposite sides of the enlarged planar front panel, each wall panel edge portion having a side panel section with two spaced apart vertical rows of staggered slits or slots with gaps between slits or slots of one row aligning with slits or slots of the other row for retarding heat transfer across each side panel section; b) the metal panels including a plurality of corner panels at each corner of the building, each corner panel having opposing corner edge portions that connect with a pair of wall panels at wall panel edge portions; c) the wall panel edge portions of one wall panel connecting with edge portions of two other metal panels; d) each of the wall panel edge portions having flanged portions that extend toward each other; e) connections that join the metal panels together being defined by interlocking sections that are Z-shaped and that extend transversely with respect to the wall outer surface; f) the wall inner surface being defined by a veneer that is connected to the metal panels at the flanged portions; g) an insulation layer cladding the inner surface of each enlarged planar front panel between the opposing wall panel edge portions; h) the corner panels at each corner comprising: one ending panel having one of the corner edge portions for connecting to an edge portion of an adjacent wall panel at a Z-shaped interlocking section, and a planar outside panel plate extending at an angle from the Z-shaped interlocking section and into the corner and having no flange portion; a starting panel having the other corner edge portion of the corner panel for connecting to an edge portion of an adjacent wall panel at a Z-shaped interlocking section, and an opposing flange portion extending into the corner, the planar outside panel plate of the ending panel overlapping the opposing flange portion of the starting panel; i) an outside L-shaped panel engaged over the outside of the planar outside panel plate of the ending panel and over the outside of the opposing flange portion of the starting panel to form an outside of each corner; j) an inside L-shaped panel spaced inwardly of the outside L-shaped panel to form an inside of each corner; and k) a plurality of fasteners for connecting the metal panels to each other.