Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system includes a framework structure constructed of a plurality of upright members connected by horizontal members to define a storage grid of storage columns, within which storage columns may be stacked a plurality of storage containers. The framework structure has a rail system arranged at the upper level of the framework structure, with parallel rails in a first direction and parallel rails in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, upon which rails a plurality of wheeled container handling vehicles travel. The container handling vehicles are equipped with a gripping and lifting device for removing storage containers from the storage columns and replacing the storage containers in the storage columns. The upright members of the framework structure have corner sections directed towards an interior of a particular storage column. The corner sections include two vertically elongated, perpendicular corner guiding plates.

Abstract: A hanger for attaching a structural beam to a building substructure has a first panel spaced from a second panel with a web extending therebetween. The web includes a bias member or compression member for biasing a beam upward. The web may include an opening through the bias member for receipt of a fastener driven from underneath the web into a beam received by the web, whereby driving of the fastener into the beam pulls the beam downward against the bias of the compression member. Additional versions exist with different leveraging surfaces to assist the fastener in pulling the beam downward. The hanger may also include one or more openings in the side panels, each opening associating with an opening in a rear panel to receive a fastener driven obliquely through a side panel opening into a beam and a building support member to attach the beam.

Abstract: A modular configurable multi-purpose system is provided. The system comprises at least one unit that has at least one room. The units are configured into at least one section, and arranged end to end or as called for in the application. A support section, having at least one support unit, may be provided for providing space for working, storage and other services for those working in the system. The system may be configured in numerous combinations to adapt to the immediate needs of the situation, and installed indoors and in the external environment. A method of operation of the system is provided.

Abstract: A bracket includes a first wing, a second wing and a bridge that connects the first wing to the second wing. The first wing has a first inner surface and a first outer surface. The second wing has a second inner surface and a second outer surface. The bridge extends from the first inner surface to the second inner surface thereby coupling the first wing to the second wing such that the first inner surface is normal to a first direction, and the first inner surface is parallel to the second inner surface. The bridge includes a front edge and a rear edge. The front edge forms a recess that extends into the bridge towards the rear edge along a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, and the recess terminates within the bridge prior to reaching the rear edge.

Abstract: The present specification relates generally to modular construction and more specifically to a sacrificial concrete void form and method of modular construction therewith. The concrete void form includes a steel frame having a top face, a bottom face, and four side faces, wherein at least one of the four side faces and the top face are covered with at least one sheet of corrugated steel decking. The method of modular construction includes constructing at least one concrete void form, the at least one concrete void form comprising a steel frame having a top face, bottom face and four side faces, wherein at least one of the four side faces and the top face are covered with at least one sheet of corrugated steel decking, installing the at least one concrete void form at a construction site, and pouring concrete over or adjacent to the at least one concrete void form.

Abstract: A weight-bearing system for hanging items from the roof structure of a metal building is disclosed. The system includes a purlin with at least one flange, a span aperture in the vertical span of the purlin, a clip that attaches to the purlin using the span aperture, and a fastener on the clip for transferring weight applied to the fastener to the clip and to the vertical span of said purlin.

Abstract: A floor panel for forming a floor covering, where the floor panel includes a layer-shaped substrate, as well as a decorative top layer situated above the substrate; and where the substrate includes at least a layer which is realized on the basis of a composition including at least a thermoplastic synthetic material being polyester.

Abstract: An anchor is provided having a lifting pin, with a shaft, a head at an upper end of the shaft, and a foot at a lower end of the shaft, and the anchor further comprising an annular plate with an opening through the center, positioned with the shaft extending through the opening and the annular plate overlaying and supported by the foot. The annular plate has an area that is at least 80% of the area of a hypothetical circle circumscribing the annular plate.

Abstract: One or more embodiments includes a door assembly with a door jamb and a door header. A connection system is provided that directs the weight of the door header directly into the door jamb. Load on the fasteners is reduced by the connection system along with the potential for slippage for the door header after installation.

Abstract: A steel-structure building envelope includes a building body, floor slabs, and external walls. The building body has H beams and decks. The decks are assembled onto the H beams. The floor slabs have RC slabs laid on the decks. The external walls each have an RC curb formed on the RC slab by means of casting, two steel C profiles, one of which is installed on the RC curb with an opening thereof facing upward, and the other of which is mounted on the deck with an opening thereof facing downward; and an outer wall panel and an inner wall panel, attached to opposite sides of the RC curb and the two steel C profiles, respectively, so that a hollow space is formed between the outer wall panel and the inner wall panel. Thereby the external walls have a two-layer structure and are affixed directly to the floor slabs.

Abstract: A safety device is provided. The safety device (100) is for securing an individual to a concrete element (2) of a structure during construction work. The concrete element (2) is of the type comprising a concrete body (4) having one or more lifting pins (6) embedded in respective lifting pin holes (8) in said body.

Abstract: Embodiments of the represent disclosure provides a multi-purpose screed device suitable to provide draining and/or ventilation at various locations of exterior walls in a building. The multi-purpose screed device is compatible with exterior walls with a rain screen disposed outside a weather-resistant barrier layer. The multi-purpose screed device may use a foundation weep screed, overhang soffit screed, and soffit ventilation.

Abstract: An expandable wall shelter includes a body and a movable wall section connected to the body and movable between a retracted position and an extended position along a linear path. At least one linkage assembly is operably connected between the body and the movable wall section for operably and movably supporting the movable wall section relative to the body for movement of the movable wall section to and between its retracted and extended positions. The at least one linkage assembly includes: (i) an inner link including opposite inner and outer ends; and (ii) an outer link including opposite inner and outer ends, wherein: the inner end of the inner link is pivotally connected to the body; the said outer end of the outer link is pivotally connected to the movable wall section; and, the outer end of the inner link is pivotally connected to the inner end of the outer link. A linkage assembly for such a movable wall section is also provided.

Abstract: A push-pull prop includes inner and outer tubes reversibly fixed to each other, a threaded bar screwed into a threaded portion of a first end of the inner tube, a fixing head including a coupling portion fixable to a first end of the outer tube and a locking portion rotationally connected to the coupling portion, so the outer tube can rotate with respect to the locking portion about a rotation axis to thread the inner tube on the threaded bar. The locking portion is rotationally connected to a first connecting element at a first surface so the prop can rotate about a first tilting axis perpendicular to the rotation axis. The threaded bar is rotationally connected to a second connecting element at a second surface, so the prop can rotate about a second tilting axis perpendicular to the rotation axis and parallel to the first tilting axis.

Abstract: A privacy enclosure that includes a floor plate, a ceiling assembly, and a sidewall that collectively define an interior cavity. The sidewall may have a laminate structure. The floor plate has a bottom surface and a top surface each with channels therein. The ceiling assembly includes a ceiling plate having a bottom surface with a channel therein. Portions of the sidewall may be positioned within the channel in the ceiling plate and the channel in the top surface of the floor plate. A door may be coupled to the ceiling assembly and to the floor plate. Specifically, the ceiling assembly may include a track member having a track therein and a follower member of the door may ride along the track to alter the door between open and closed states. A bracket member coupled to the door may slide within the channel in the bottom surface of the floor plate.

Abstract: Hybrid buildings, hybrid building systems and methods of constructing hybrid buildings are disclosed. First and second building sections forming part of such buildings are also disclosed. One such hybrid residential building (1600) comprises a first building section (1610) and a second building section (1620). The first building section is an on-site construction at a final location for the building and comprises a lower storey (1611) defining an internal volume (1613) that provides a lower living space (1615) within the building, and an upper storey (1617) defining an internal volume (1619) that provides an upper living space (1621) within the building. The second building section defines an internal volume (1623) and is transportable to the final location in a substantially assembled form. The first and second building sections are connected at the final location to form the building.

Abstract: A staircase area at which a staircase is installed across a first floor and a second floor is provided in a building. A part of the staircase area is a non-installation space in which a staircase is not installed, and a lifting space through which a transport robot moves up and down between the first floor and the second floor is provided using the non-installation space. The lifting space and a staircase hall having a spandrel wall there between are adjacent to each other the second floor. An opening through which the transport robot moves between the lifting space and the staircase hall is provided in the spandrel wall.

Abstract: The present invention provides a solar cell module installation structure and a house that can reduce manufacturing cost and have good workability as compared with the related art. A support member includes a rail part that extends substantially in a vertical direction and is longer than a length of the solar cell module. The solar cell module includes: a solar cell panel; and a frame member. The solar cell panel includes: a main body panel; a terminal box provided on a back surface of the main body panel; and a wiring part extending from the terminal box. The frame member includes: a holding recess; and a mounting part. The holding recess sandwiches a part of the main body panel and is in contact with a light receiving surface and the back surface of the main body panel. The mounting part is provided on a back surface of the main body panel and is attached to the rail part of the support member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of construction engineering, and specifically to configurations and close-fitting joints for a second-order scissor damper and an assembly method for the same. There six parts in total, including first hinge joints, a first-order shuttle-shaped linkage mechanical component, second hinge joints, a second-order shuttle-shaped linkage mechanical component, third hinge joints, and a viscous damper; the second-order shuttle-shaped linkage mechanical component includes four small connecting rods of equal length and it is formed by hinging them together. The device of the present invention can constrain the joints, release the bending constraints on the ends of the rods, and enable a significant increase in the stroke amplification of the conventional scissor damper.

Abstract: An end seal member, which includes a contacting surface including a drainage cavity along the contacting surface. The end seal member also includes a seal material body including a central body protrusion projecting in a horizontal direction substantially orthogonal to the seal material body from an opposite face of the contacting surface. The end seal member also includes a first and second extending elements extending upward from the seal material body and a reinforcing metal plate within the seal material body. The contacting surface is substantially flat.