Abstract: A clamping assembly for communication with beam members is provided. Clamping assemblies of the present disclosure are useful for attaching to various beams including, but not limited to, concrete I-beams. The clamping assemblies are useful for supporting a beam prior to complete installation of the beam in its intended location. Risk associated with beam movement, tipping and falling is mitigated by embodiments of the present disclosure.

Abstract: An attachment strip for attaching lath to a wall and a system for attaching lath to a wall with increased water resistive characteristics. The attachment strip has protruding teeth on an attachment plate that holds the lath in place, and a mounting plate that secures the lath furring strip against the wall and framing. In addition, since attachment strip, instead of the lath directly, is secured to the sheathing, fewer mounting devices are needed compared to when a lath is directly secured to a sheathing, where substantially more mounting devices would be needed. Thus in this arrangement, fewer penetrations are created when installing the lath. Additional water resistive features, such insulation layers, and a drainage space surrounded by two water resistive barriers, create space that not only increases insulation, but protects the inner layers of a wall from damage.

Abstract: A multi-level fall protection system for a structure under construction, the structure having reinforced concrete decks including a first deck and a second deck arranged above the first deck and openings provided in the decks. The system includes bearing plates arranged in an associated opening in the first deck and having a flange portion larger than the associated opening. Lateral support blocks are arranged in an associated opening in the second deck. Vertical support posts are detachably secured at a bottom portion to an associated bearing plate and extend upwardly through an associated opening in the second deck. The vertical support posts are supported laterally by the lateral support blocks. At least one flexible support line extends between and is coupled to a pair of the vertical support posts.

Abstract: A precast composite building system usable for walls, roofs, and floors of buildings, comprising a concrete composite panel element having embedded steel I-beams, wire mesh, embed plates, and steel tension reinforcement bars interconnected vertically, horizontally, and angularly by columnar elements rigidly fixed to the supporting foundation, embedded into the panel elements affixed to a transverse steel beam so as to form a perimeter tie-beam connection structure to which additional floor, roof, and wall elements are attached, forming a unitary, superior, load-bearing structure.

Abstract: A prefabricated modular wall panel brace is used in the construction of long wall for buildings. Each prefabricated modular panel brace is placed beside another framing component between a top plate and a bottom plate. Every other panel maybe inverted with respect to the adjacent panel so that the ends of a diagonal brace in each panel is adjacent to the diagonal brace in the adjacent panel. Each panel may have a movable/swiveling section to accommodate an angled portion of the wall. The modular wall panel brace may be used in single or multiple floor structures for either interior or exterior walls to provide shear or diaphragm bracing of the wall units of a building to provide bracing for wind or seismic loads.

Abstract: A polyimide represented by the following general formula (1); wherein l, m, and n represent not the order of each repeating unit, but the numbers of each repeating unit existing in the molecule, E1 is a photosensitive group, E2 is a group comprising an alkyl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, —A(—E1)—, —A(—E2)—, and B each are a divalent organic group, X and Y each are a tetravalent organic group, X, Y, A, B, E1 and E2 may be identical or different among the repeating units, 1 is an integer of 1 or more, m and n each are an integer of 0 or more. The polyimide and polyimide compositions comprising it has thermoreactivity as well as photoreactivity and photosensitivity.

Abstract: A furniture channel for vertical disposition against horizontal framing members, with an intermittent raised bead on the furniture channel inner surface for selective, optional positioning, against the horizontal framing members, for obtaining the desired spacing of the furniture channel faces from the framing members.

Abstract: A ceiling/floor or ceiling/roof structure comprising a plurality of substantially parallel substantially horizontally extending joists, each joist being supported at the two opposed ends thereof, a first set of transverse members resting on the top of and secured to the top of at least some of said joists, and a further set of transverse members extending underneath and connected to the lower surfaces of at least some of said joists, the said structure being adapted to be associated with ceiling and/or roofing or flooring materials.

Abstract: A buckstay stirrup for a steam generator is formed from a single plate, requiring only cutting and bending. The plate after cutting is bent to form two angled support portions (24) and a central portion (20). The outboard section (22) of the intermediate portion is cut (32) so that it extends inwardly to engage the inner edge of a buckstay, which is in the form of an I-beam. The central intermediate portion (20) is formed to be located inwardly of the outboard portion and contains an accordian fold (30) to permit the shortening which occurs during the bending. The two intermediate portions (20,22) are in parallel planes spaced to accept the buckstay flange therebetween.

Abstract: A structural panel having a mesh sheet which is stiffened by one or a series of stiffeners each of which has a plurality of hook-like tongues which engage and retain rod portions of the mesh sheet.