Patent ID: 7926233

Claim:
A building, comprising: (a) a load-bearing foundation, said load-bearing foundation having a bottom and a top, and comprising (i) a load-bearing footer, and (ii) a load-bearing foundation wall, overlying said footer, and extending upwardly from loci at or adjacent said footer, said foundation wall having a height defined between a top of said wall and a bottom of said wall, a wall length, and a wall thickness, and comprising (A) an outermost fiber-reinforced polymeric layer, (B) an innermost fiber-reinforced polymeric layer, and (C) a plurality of studs spaced from each other along the length of said foundation and protruding from said foundation wall, including extending away from one of said innermost layer and said outermost layer, and defining a plurality of channels between said studs, said channels being open inwardly of said studs; and (b) an overlying building structure applying a structural building load to said load-bearing foundation.