Abstract: Modules providing structural platforms for floors, ceilings, walls, and a roof of a wood frame building are shown and described. Once installed, modules receive suitable finishing materials providing continuous, flat surfaces, with exceptions for penetrations. Each module may include a wood perimeter, upper joist boards or roof rafters, coupled to the wood perimeter at relatively high positions thereon, and lower joist boards or roof rafters coupled to the bounded wood perimeter at relatively low positions thereon. Within each module, each upper joist board or upper roof rafter has a lowermost edge above a level of an uppermost edge of each said lower joist board or lower roof rafter. A gap between the lowermost edge and every lower joist board or roof rafter accommodates ducts, wiring, and plumbing. Each upper joist board or roof rafter is staggered in plan view relative to the lower joist boards or roof rafters.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method that includes providing or assembling a rectangular horizontal member, joining a vertical member to the rectangular horizontal member such that the vertical member bisects a length of the horizontal member and forms a T-junction at the horizontal member, joining first and second sloped members to the rectangular horizontal member and vertical member such that the first and second sloped members span from a top of the vertical member to opposing ends of the horizontal member, and joining first and second support members such that the first and second support members span from the T-junction between the vertical member and horizontal member to work points on an underside of each of the first and second sloped members. The structure thus formed can be assembled from prefabricated units shipped together in parallel planar orientation in a shipping container to provide a roof truss unit.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an article of manufacture that includes a rectangular horizontal member, a vertical member bisecting a length of the horizontal member and forming a T-junction at the horizontal member, first and second sloped members spanning from a top of the vertical member to opposing ends of the horizontal member, and first and second support members spanning from the T-junction between the vertical member and horizontal member to work points on an underside of each of the first and second sloped members. The article of manufacture can be assembled on the ground at a construction site from prefabricated units shipped together in parallel planar orientation in a shipping container to provide a truss unit for forming the roof of a structure.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for shipping of fabricated rectangular wooden modules used for construction of a wood frame structure and for shipping of other bulky items are described. In particular, the disclosure features a modified shipping container for shipping the fabricated rectangular wooden modules and methods of loading, transporting, and unloading the fabricated rectangular wooden modules. The modified shipping container features a removable header system and a removable cover. The fabricated rectangular wooden modules include a module length axis, a module width axis, a bounded wood perimeter, and joists or rafters oriented perpendicularly to the module length axis, and are stacked as cargo in the interior of the container such that joists or rafters of the fabricated rectangular wooden modules are substantially vertical and the length axes of the modules are substantially parallel to a length axis of the container.