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Load-bearing construction pod and hybrid method of construction using pods

a technology of construction pods and construction pods, applied in the field of building construction, can solve the problems of high transportation costs, and achieve the effects of reducing construction time, improving quality, and reducing construction costs

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-03-10
BEAUDET PATRICE
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"The present invention is a method of building a building using factory-made standardized pods (modules) that are easy to inspect and connect from the outside. This method reduces the cost of construction, improves quality, and reduces construction time. The pods can include the bathrooms, kitchens, utility rooms, plumbing system, electric panels, and most of the wiring and electrical receptacle outlets. The transportation costs are reasonable because the pods can be the standard size of a trailer or semi-trailer or the size of a shipping container. The structure of the pod is made of steel, but it can also be made of wood, concrete, or other material. The rest of the building is built using steel in the preferred embodiment."

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The above buildings all have in common that the square footage of the building is simply the sum of the square footage of all its components and are therefore very expensive to transport.

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[0031]The present invention permits the construction of custom made buildings of all sizes, made using diversified materials and styles while using off-site standardized construction pods that integrate the most labour-intensive components of the edifice and a significant part of the structure of that edifice. One pod can be used to build a small building like a single-family house (see FIG. 8), or many similar pods can be stacked on top of one another to erect a multi-story building.

[0032]Pods can be connected on top of one another; the pod located on top of another pod can have a similar structure or a lighter structure since it has to carry a lighter load. FIGS. 1 and 2 show the main structure of the pods which is made of hot rolled steel. The pod has four columns (elements 1 to 1c), one in each corners, the size of the columns varies depending on how many floors it has to carry. In the preferred embodiment the column are made of steel tubing that can go for example from a small ...

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Abstract

Off-site load-bearing construction pod (module) that incorporate the vertical structure to carry similar pods placed on top of it and part of the on-site structure built around and above these pods. Hybrid method of construction where buildings are erected by combining standardized pods which incorporate smaller, most labor-intensive rooms and components of the edifice to conventional methods of construction for larger, less labor-intensive rooms and components. The very same mass-manufactured pod that incorporates kitchen, bathrooms, laundry room and most of the plumbing and the electric system of a dwelling can be used to build the top floor of a skyscraper or a single-family house.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS3,952,465April 1976Masiello52 / 733,990,193November 1976Ray et al52 / 794,050,215September 1977Fisher52 / 79.34,083,154October 1978Klink52 / 79.94,118,905October 1978Shelly52 / 79.24,136,492January 1979Willingham52 / 79.74,135,833February 1979Townend52 / 7454,194,339March 1980Fisher52 / 7454,485,608December 1984Kaufman52 / 7454,512,120April 1985Lindal52 / 79.14,599,829July 1986DiMartino, Sr52 / 794,891,919January 1990Palibroda52 / 79.55,447,000September 1995Larsen52 / 79.15,706,614January 1998Wiley52 / 79.16,493,996December 2002Alexander et al52 / 79.96,625,937 B1September 2003Parker et al52 / 79.76,826,879 B1December 2004Allen et al52 / 236.3FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTWO 2009 / 005449January 2009E04B 1 / 348BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The present invention relates generally to building construction. The present invention relates to a construction method combining conventional methods of construction and prefabricated, mass...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): E04H1/02E04B1/38
CPCE04B1/3483E04H1/005E04B1/34869
Inventor BEAUDET, PATRICE
Owner BEAUDET PATRICE
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