A fork tube arrangement for facilitating the movement of a foldable transportable building.

Structural beams for a building structure that can be folded, to permit the creation of a compact building structure shipping module. The structural beams also can be unfolded and locked in the unfolded position to provide a rigid structure for resisting vertical loads and transferring them to lower levels and ultimately the building foundation.

A toe screw housing, for securing abutting enclosure components together, having a bearing plate with an interior face, an exterior face and a beveled upper edge; a toe screw well joined to and extending away from the interior face and including a fastener shelf; a toe screw support joined to the interior face, and additionally joined to and extending away from the fastener shelf, the toe screw support distal from the fastener shelf including a planar support surface oriented perpendicular to the interior face; and a fastener bore passing through the fastener shelf, the toe screw support and the support surface and inclined at a second angle relative to the interior face of the bearing plate.

A spacer system for stacked building structures that is in mating engagement with a seal plate provided on an edge of an enclosure component.

An enclosure component for a building having first and second adjacent metal sheets, with an insertion section on an interior edge of the second metal sheet positioned within a receiver section of an interior edge of the first metal sheet, the first and second metal sheets being bonded to a planar foam panel layer with an edge portion of an exterior edge of the first metal sheet received in a locating slot of an edge seal positioned on the edge of the foam panel layer.

A building apparatus for a residential or commercial building that includes a prefabricated wall panel and a horizontal beam mounted on a top of the prefabricated wall panel. The prefabricated wall panel includes a first concrete block, a second concrete block, and an insulation panel sandwiched between the two concrete blocks. A plurality of spaced-apart hollow tubes extend between the top side and the bottom side of the prefabricated wall panel and each tube has a flange at its a periphery. The tubes reinforce the first concrete block, and the flanges are supported on the top side of the wall. The horizontal beam is fastened to these flanges. The prefabricated wall panel further includes a U-shape beam that extends from the top side to the bottom side and is positioned at or near the left side or the right side of the prefabricated wall panel. A plurality of slings spaced apart run along a length of the U-shape beam and can provide for assembling two wall panels.

A sealing system with a first seal plate having an interior face and an opposed exterior face. The interior face is adapted to be secured to an enclosure component, and the exterior face defines a seal slot. The first seal plate is adapted to mate with a second seal plate. A resilient compression seal is positioned in the seal slot, and has a base and first and second seal walls joined to and extending away from the base in a diverging relationship. First and second arcuate buttresses are joined respectively to the first and second seal walls distal from the base, and first and second planar seal surfaces are joined to ends of the first and second arcuate buttresses distal from the seal walls, with the first and second seal surfaces extending away from the arcuate buttresses in a converging relationship. First and second closure ends of a seal closure are joined to ends of the seal surfaces distal from the arcuate buttresses. The base, seal walls, arcuate buttresses, seal surfaces and seal closure define a hollow seal chamber.

Systems, methods, and an apparatus are provided for supporting a wall panel on a floor surface and for providing a desired distribution of a load from the wall panel to the floor surface. For some buildings, the desired distribution is an equal or uniform distribution. A wall panel such as a precast concrete façade wall panel may include multiple supports that contact a floor surface. Each support has a bias member that generates a force that is equivalent to the portion of the overall load that the support transfers to a floor. As a result, bias members in these supports can be adjusted to provide a desired load distribution from a wall panel or other component to the floor surface to account for floor deflection, settling of the building, spanning adjacent columns, etc.

A method of erecting a multi-storey structure having a facade disposed around at least a portion of a perimeter of the multi-storey structure, wherein during construction, at least a portion of the facade is disposed to extend beyond an upper work area of the structure and forms at least part of a safety barrier for that work area.

A facade assembly for a vehicle parking structure comprising a facade panel arranged to form part of an exterior of the structure. The facade assembly includes at least one support member extending inwardly of the panel and into the structure in use for connection with a floor of the structure. The support member is arranged to include one or more attachments.