Disclosed herewith a modular integrated building and a construction method thereof. The building includes multiple prefabricated room units, each provided with reserved, exposed reinforcing bars at its top. A bottom of a load-bearing structure of the prefabricated room unit is embedded with grouting couple shafts. Reinforcing bars of the load-bearing structure and of the prefabricated room unit of a next floor are inserted in inner grouting chambers of the grouting couple shafts to connect two prefabricated room units of adjacent floors together. A cast-in-situ concrete interlayer is arranged for connecting adjacent prefabricated room units of a same floor together. The on-site workload is reduced significantly, the construction period is shortened greatly, and the construction is convenient and rapid.

An autonomous treatment unit (10, 200) for treating at least a plurality of patients by hemodialysis. The unit being an individual construction comprising at least one care room equipped with a dialysis generator to prepare treatment solutions of at least one of sodium chloride, potassium chloride, calcium chloride, and magnesium chloride with hemodialysis water for each individual patient. The treatment unit is a housing structure grouping of a plurality of elementary modules built substantially in a same way, juxtaposed and arranged internally, individually or in a combination, to form a first group of service rooms (210) assigned for hemodialysis treatment of patients, reception of patients, administrative follow-up of patients and medical follow-up of patients. A second group of rooms (250) for preparation and storage of the concentrates, the fluids used in the care rooms and/or the reprocessing and/or disposal of the residual and effluents generated treatments generated by the treatment.

A structure has spaces that can accommodate at least two International Organization for Standardization compliant shipping containers. The structure has studs, joists, and rafters connected together above, besides, between, and in front of the spaces for the shipping containers. The structure provides for an attractive outdoor retail space with shading, allowing for signage, decorations, product display, ergonomics, and other retail design features. In an implementation, the structure is for a mobile retail space that is tailored for customizing and manufacture of the customized apparel, especially the laser finishing of products like jeans. The mobile retail space can be relocated to and deployed easily at various events, such as sports events and music festival venues.

An object is to provide an air conditioner-incorporating panel for a prefabricated house which can be safely moved so as to enhance the efficiency of operating of a step of assembling the prefabricated house. An outdoor unit P for an air conditioner is fixed to the outer surface of a wall panel 1 that is fitted to a prefabricated house. An indoor unit Q is fixed to the inner surface of the wall panel 1. A support base 2 is provided below the outdoor unit P on the side of a lower end portion of the outer surface of the wall panel 1. The wall panel 1, supported by the support base 2, is inclined so as to stand on its own at such an angle that loads on the inner and outer surfaces are equalized. Casters 3 are fitted to the lower surface of the support base 2.

A robotic parking device is described. The device includes a number of stacks of containers as shown in FIG. 3, the stacks being positioned within a frame structure including uprights and a horizontal grid disposed above the stacks, the grid having substantially perpendicular rails on which load handling devices can run. Cars or vehicles are positioned in containers that are moved in to and out of the stacks by the robotic handling devices running on the grid. The cars are put in to the grid at entry points that may be positioned at points under the stacks.

A system and method for handling shipping containers is described. The container handling system includes a crane, the crane having crane load handling devices. The container handling system includes a conveyance device, the conveyance device including transversal load handling devices. The system provides storage and sortation for storing the containers in a series of stacks disposed beneath a grid, the grid having a series of load handling devices operable thereon. The crane load handling device removes a container from a ship, transports it to transversal load handling device operable on a conveyor. The container is moved on the conveyor to a transfer point where it is collected by a robotic load handling device for transport to the storage and sortation area.

The invention relates to a method for constructing habitable installations for floating structures, comprising the following steps: lowering a first adapted standard container (3) through at least one vertical prismatic cavity (25) of a carrying structure (2) until it is supported on support brackets (4) of the floor below; securing the first container (3) to said support brackets (4) of the floor below; and, for each subsequent floor, securing a number of subsequent support brackets (4) to the carrying structure (2) on each container (3) already in position; lowering a subsequent container (3) until it is supported on said subsequent support brackets (4); and securing said subsequent container (3) to subsequent support brackets (4) on which it is resting. The invention also includes a habitable installation (1) constructed according to said method, and a container (3) adapted for carrying out said method.

A structure with a support assembly having an upper surface spaced above a lower surface, a module removably supported by the upper surface of the support assembly, and an access system that is configured to allow a person adjacent the lower surface of the support assembly to move vertically upward adjacent the upper surface of the support assembly. The module at least partially encloses an interior space that is accessible through an opening in the module. The module is not permanently joined to the support assembly, and there is an accessible volume of space positioned below the module. The access system is positioned in a corner of a parking lot, the module extends laterally outward from the access system, and the module is positioned above at least one parking space in the parking lot.

An object handling system is described, the system having two substantially perpendicular sets of rails forming a grid above a workspace, the workspace having a plurality of stacked containers. The system includes a series of robotic load handling devices operating on the grid above the workspace, the load handling devices having a body mounted on wheels. The robotic devices can move around the grid under instruction from a computing device, the robotic devices being moved to a point on the grid above a stack of containers and then, using a lifting device, engage and lift a container from the stack. The container is then moved to a point where the objects in the container can be accessed. Modifications to the workspace and grid are described that allow vehicles and roll cages to be used to move stacks from the workspace to a point outside the workspace or from outside the workspace into the workspace.

A structure for modular utilities units includes a skeletal frame forming multiple bays, each configured for receiving a respective utilities unit. A placement subassembly is mounted on the frame and includes a utilities unit connector configured for connecting to a respective utilities unit and a lifting device configured for attachment to the connector and raising and lowering a respective utilities unit. The utilities units can provide power, telecommunications, water, data processing and other utility functions. A logistics system includes vehicles for conveying the utilities units to and from the structure. The logistics system interfaces with ground, marine and air transportation resources.