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Abstract

The method for constructing a building begins by pouring slab floors from nine inches to twelve inches less than the inside width of the finished floors of a number of buildings in a project in one phase of the project work, and, thereafter trenching and pouring footings about the floors to leave a space between the slabs and the footings in a subsequent phase of the project work. The upper elevation of the footings is set to provide the desired pitch of each building roof. Precast walls are made of standard height and length and set on the footings, the lower sections of the walls, and footings both having hooked rebars adapted to be interconnected together with the mesh reinforcing of each slab floor within the nine to twelve inch 'poor strip' space provided. A pour strip or closure strip of concrete is poured over the rebars and continues the slab floor to the wall surface and downwardly to the footing. Beam hangers are welded to reinforced plates set in the walls and bridging adjoining adjacent wall sections. The beam hangers assume the same pitch as defined by the difference in wall elevations based on the fall of the footings so that the roof pitch and fall are set accordingly. The building structure incorporates the novel features mentioned in combination with the closure strip uniting the slab floor, walls, and footings, and the adjustment for roof slope with standard, precast walls. The structure of the reinforced plates and beam hangers joining the upper corners of the walls is novel. The walls are usually ten feet high by twenty feet in length and are provided with standardized openings therein for cargo and passage doors.

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