Patent ID: 7900411

Claim:
A shear wall building system comprising: (a) at least four corner posts, each of said posts arranged about a floor pad and each having a top end and a bottom end, each of said corner posts further having a longitudinal outer body comprising four corners, said corners including (i) a pair of diagonally opposing corners; (ii) an outer most exterior corner positioned between said diagonally opposing corners, and (iii) an inner most corner located diagonally opposite said outer most exterior corner and between said pair of diagonally opposing corners; (b) one or more first exterior shear wall sheets secured to each of said corner posts, said one or more shear wall sheets having a first outer edge secured to one of said diagonally opposing corners of one of said corner posts; (c) one or more interior shear wall sheets secured to each of said corner posts, said one or more interior shear wall sheets having a first outer edge secured to said inner most corner of one of said corner posts; (d) one or more longitudinal sill plates having opposite ends secured to adjacent corner posts along said floor pad, wherein at least one of said sill plates comprises angled plates embedded within an underlying concrete foundation wherein said angled plates are set at an angle of less than 90 degrees relative to an upper base plate of said one or more longitudinal sill plates; (e) one or more shear wall connecting studs secured within each of said sill plates and positioned a distance from an adjacent corner post, each of said connecting studs including a longitudinal channel formed by a longitudinal central web portion, an outer flange,and an intermediate flange, of said connecting stud; (f) each of said interior and exterior shear wall sheets each having a second outer side edge secured within said longitudinal channel of said shear wall connecting studs; and (g) at least one horizontal top plate secured to the top ends of said studs and corner posts.