A method and apparatus for constructing a single story or multistory building using timber as a major structural material. The apparatus includes a connector plate having a series of pins extending therefrom. In a building component, each pin engages with a relatively small diameter timber flange by way of an axial bore hole formed in each flange. In this way, the flanges form a timber structural member useful in the formation of a framework of a building structure. The plate of the connector provides a fastener for fastening to other similar connectors or to other building structures. Various combinations of connectors and building flanges may be used to construct a single story building, and furthermore may be used in the construction of a multistory building.

The present invention relates to a modular structural panel intended to form part of an inner or outer wall of a building, the structural panel including two faade panels parallel to each other. Both faade panels are connected by at least one first strut extending along a first direction of the structural panel and by a set of second struts extending along a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, the second struts protruding from an edge of the structural panel by a distance D and the at least one first strut extending in a recessed manner from the opposed edge of the structural panel by a distance D at least equal to the distance D, in order to allow the protruding parts of the adjacent panel in the building to be nested within the intermediary space between this first strut and the close edge of the structural panel.

A staggered stud wall system includes a top track having a main top web and depending inner and outer flanges, a bottom track having a main bottom web and vertically projecting inner and outer flanges, a first plurality of studs having a main stud web and at least one stud flange secured to inner top and bottom track flanges, a second plurality of studs having a main stud web and at least one stud flange secured to the outer top and bottom track flanges, the main top web and the main bottom web having a width greater than a width of the main stud web of the first and second plurality of studs, and stud bracing being installed to prevent movement of inner edges of the first and second plurality of studs relative to the top track and the bottom track.