Patent ID: 8424835

Claim:
A method of supporting panel structures spaced over a footing to receive a hardenable building material, the method comprising: providing multiple base members and wall ties, each base member including an upstanding portion extending vertically from a horizontally extending base extension, each wall tie including a first elongated wall portion and a second elongated wall portion with a cross-member portion extending therebetween, the first and second elongated wall portions configured to extend vertically relative to the footing and the first and second elongated wall portions including a respective first flat surface and a second flat surface, the first flat surface and the second flat surface facing in directly opposite directions; securing the multiple base members to the footing in a spaced apart arrangement along the footing; attaching a first level of the wall ties to each of the base members by mating end portions of the first and second elongated wall portions of the wall tie to the upstanding portions of the base members; attaching one or more additional levels of wall ties to each of the previously attached wall ties by mating the end portions of the first and second elongated wall portions of other wall ties together to vertically build separate and discrete tie stacks; securing one or more first panel structures to the first flat surface of the first elongated wall portion of each of the wall ties of the tie stacks; and securing one or more second panel structures to the second flat surface of the second elongated wall portion of each of the wall ties of the tie stacks.