Abstract: A house, (or other building) built using structural insulated panels (comprising a frame around a slab of polystyrene). Tempered glass covers the panels that are used in the roof and outside walls, and is also used for inside walls and partitions. Windows and skylights are holes in the polystyrene, but are covered by the same glass. Light emitting diodes or starlights are set between the glass covering and the polystyrene. The windows cannot be opened, but fresh air may be introduced by heat recovery ventilators or extra glass outside doors. Structural insulated panels used in forming floors are covered by oriented strand board.

Abstract: A method of forming a watertight plank section including sawing green planks and securing a plurality of these planks in such a way that when dried, the planks shrink together in a fashion that forms a watertight seal.

Abstract: The roof section comprises a quadrilateral substrate and a roof covering on the top thereof. The covering comprises shingle-like roof plates, the bodies of which have a tapering cross section in one cross sectional plane thereof. The plates are arranged in at least two elongated parallel, relatively transversely offset but overlapping relatively top and bottom series. Each series has a plurality of the plates, and the plates are arranged in each series so that the bodies of the plates are staggered in overlapping relationship to one another lengthwise of the series. Also, the tapering cross sections of the plates are disposed lengthwise of the series.

Abstract: Wall sections for prefabricated buildings are constructed so that they have one stud and one short bottom plate whose length is equal to the design stud spacing at 90.degree. forming an "L". The sections are covered inside and outside with inside and outside finish. Each section is insulated with fiberglass insulation in batt form. The above description is meant to indicate ordinary building construction. The new sections would be similar except that the stud and plate would be split in two in the plane of and between their covering coats with one part being fixed to the outside finish and the other part being fixed to the inside finish. The fiberglass insulation would not be cut and would be left adhered to the inside surface. For shipping purposes and to cut bulk, one section half would be spun around 180.degree.

Abstract: Each construction member comprises a pair of mutually opposing, normally strip-like bodies of wood or other fastener impalable material, which are abutted face-to-face with one another on a common axis and adapted to define an axially extending slot at the interface therebetween. It also comprises an elongated strip of metal-like reinforcing material which is interposed in the slot and equipped with integral tooth-like fasteners on the longitudinally extending edges thereof which are oppositely disposed to one another from edge-to-edge of the strip and impaled in the bodies of fastener impalable material adjacent opposite sides of the slot. To this extent, pairs of the members may be modular.

Abstract: Common tongue and groove roof decking planks are covered with sheetmetal to make the planks themselves weatherproof. The sheetmetal is formed so that the individual planks can be interlocked together with a weatherproof joint which also hides from view and the weather the nails used to spike the roof planking down to the roof framing.