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A system of pre-formed panels, trusses, and roof elements, configured so as to affix to and integrate with one another to form a building structure. The truss elements are independently supported by columns. The several wall panel frames are attached to said support columns, to each other, and to th

A system of pre-formed panels, trusses, and roof elements, configured so as to affix to and integrate with one another to form a building structure. The truss elements are independently supported by columns. The several wall panel frames are attached to said support columns, to each other, and to the foundation of the structure. The roof panel frames are attached to the walls, to the trusses, and to each other. The entirety forms an integrated structure of substantial strength. Each wall panel frame is pre-formed so as to, after erection of the structure frame, receive exterior sheeting, in half-standard sheet sizes, within its outer frame, said sheeting being rigidly affixed to said panel frame. Similarly, interior sheeting is affixed to the inner side of the said panel frame, and insulation may be introduced between the two sheets. Exterior sheeting is similarly affixed to the roof panel frames, which is subsequently overlaid with standard roofing materials.

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1. A pre-formed building system, for erection of a structure on a prepared foundation, comprising: a plurality of support columns, disposed in a spaced apart relationship about the periphery of said foundation so as to be abuttingly aligned with internal surfaces of a pair of side walls and a pai

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A pre-formed building system, for erection of a structure on a prepared foundation, comprising: a plurality of support columns, disposed in a spaced apart relationship about the periphery of said foundation so as to be abuttingly aligned with internal surfaces of a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls, respectively, each support column being vertically oriented to rest on and to be anchored to said foundation, the spacing between said support columns being such that a single support column is situated substantially at each corner of the structure, a second single support column is situated a first spacing distance from the first support column in each horizontal direction from each corner toward each peripherally adjacent corner of the structure, a third single support column is situated a first spacing distance from the second support column in each horizontal direction progressing away from each corner, a fourth single support column is situated so as to abut with the third support column along their respective vertical edges in a direction progressing away from each corner column so as to form a double column, and said remaining support columns are situated as alternatingly single columns and abutting pairs so spaced along each half-extent of each of the side and end walls, such that an integer number of single support columns and an integer number of abutting pairs of support columns traverse the extent of each wall of the structure; a plurality of saddles of a first type, said plurality of saddles of the first type being rigidly affixed to, respectively, an uppermost end of each of said single support columns of the side walls of the structure excluding each corner support column; a plurality of saddles of a second type, said plurality of saddles of the second type being rigidly affixed to, respectively, uppermost ends of each of said abutting pairs of support columns of the side walls of the structure; a plurality of pre-fabricated wall panel subassemblies, each of said subassemblies comprising a substantially rectangular external frame element, formed of a rigid rectangular tubing material, a major vertical dividing element, at least one horizontal dividing element, and a plurality of sheeting support elements, wherein said external frame element has two vertical sides disposed in a parallel spaced apart relationship so as to be separated by substantially twice said first spacing distance, with an upper end segment and a lower end segment completing said rectangle, said major vertical dividing element being affixed to and extending between said upper and said lower end segments so as to be parallel to and equidistant from said sides, said major vertical dividing element being formed of tubular stock having a rectangular cross-section of the same dimensions as said external frame element, said at least one horizontal dividing element, formed of identical rectangular tubular material as said external frame element, being disposed to extend between and to be affixed to said sides of said external frame element and said major vertical dividing element so as to be parallel with said upper and said lower end segments of said external frame element such that the spacing between the upper end segment of the external frame element and the adjacent horizontal dividing element is substantially identical with the spacing between the lower end segment of the external frame element and the horizontal dividing element proximate thereto and with the spacing between adjacent horizontal dividing elements, said plurality of sheeting support elements being disposed in a vertical orientation between each of said horizontal dividing elements and between said horizontal dividing elements and said upper and said lower end segments of said external frame element, said sheeting support elements being spaced apart in a horizontal direction such that a respective one of said sheeting support elements is in parallel abutting contact with each of said sides of said external frame element, a respective one of said sheeting support elements is in parallel abutting contact with each side of said major vertical dividing element, and remaining sheeting support elements are parallelly spaced apart by substantially equal distances; a plurality of roof panel subassemblies each roof panel subassembly comprising an external frame element, formed of a substantially rectangular tubular material, having a pair of transverse side members, parallelly spaced apart by substantially twice said first spacing distance, and a pair of longitudinal end members spaced apart by substantially twice said first spacing distance, a major transverse dividing element disposed parallelly equidistant between said transverse side members and rigidly affixed to and extending between said longitudinal end members, a pair of longitudinal dividing elements disposed along a line parallelly equidistant from said longitudinal end members and each rigidly affixed to and extending between one of said transverse side members, respectively, and said major transverse dividing element, and a plurality of sheeting support elements disposed in equidistant spaced apart relationship with each other so as to be parallel with said transverse side members and said major transverse dividing element such that a respective one of said sheeting support elements is in parallelly abutting contact with each of said transverse side members and with each side of said major transverse dividing element, each of said sheeting support elements being rigidly affixed to and extending between said longitudinal end members and said longitudinal dividing elements; a plurality of truss panel subassemblies of a first type, formed of rectangular tubing material, wherein each truss panel subassembly of the first type comprises a lower horizontal rib element having a horizontal extent substantially equivalent to an integer multiple of wall panel subassembly horizontal widths, a diagonal rib element, rigidly affixed at one end thereof to one end of said lower horizontal rib element, and forming a roof slope angle therewith, a plurality of vertical riser elements, rigidly affixed between said lower horizontal rib element and said diagonal rib element in a spaced apart relationship such that an abutting pair of vertical riser elements are situated at each even multiple of said first spacing distance from the point of intersection of said lower horizontal rib element and said diagonal rib element, and a single vertical riser element is disposed at each odd multiple of said first spacing distance, except that the vertical riser element disposed at the end of said lower horizontal rib element farthest removed from said point of intersection shall be a single vertical riser element, and a plurality of bracing diagonal elements rigidly affixed to each vertical riser element and said lower horizontal rib element at their point of intersection and extending to be rigidly affixed to the next shorter vertical riser element and the diagonal rib element at their point of intersection; each of said support columns, said saddles of the first and second types, said wall panel subassemblies, said roof panel subassemblies, and said truss panel subassemblies having a plurality of interconnection holes formed therein at predetermined locations; means for connecting said wall panel subassemblies to respective inwardly adjacent support columns through each vertical side of each external frame element and through each major vertical dividing element of each wall panel subassembly; means for connecting each wall panel subassembly to the adjoining wall panel subassemblies through the abutting vertical sides of the external frame elements; means for coupling together pairs of said plurality of truss panel subassemblies of the first type to form a plurality of truss members wherein the longest of the vertical riser elements of each of the pair of truss panel subassemblies of the first type are placed in parallel abutting contact to form a planar triangular truss member such that the lower horizontal rib elements of the pair of truss panel subassemblies of the first type are substantially colinear; means for coupling said truss members to said saddles of the first and second types such that said truss members span said structure transverse to its extent and are parallelly spaced apart with respect to an end wall of said structure, each of said support columns or pair of support columns and its transversely opposite support column or pair of support columns supporting one of said truss members; means for connecting said roof panel subassemblies to the diagonal rib elements of said truss members through the transverse side members and the major transverse dividing element of each roof panel subassembly; means for connecting each of said roof panel subassemblies situated so as to have a longitudinal end member disposed substantially adjacent an upper end segment of the external frame element of a wall panel subassembly, to said wall panel external frame element through said longitudinal end member of the roof panel subassembly and said upper end segment of the wall panel external frame element; means for connecting each transverse side member of said roof panel frame element to the abutting transverse side members of adjacent roof panel subassemblies; means for connecting abutting longitudinal end members of adjacent roof panel subassemblies; a plurality of external wall panel sheeting elements, each of said wall panel sheeting elements being configured as a planar rectangle having dimensions substantially equal to, but less than, the internal distance within a wall panel subassembly separating the surfaces of a vertical side of the external frame element and the major vertical dividing element in a horizontal direction and between adjacent end segments and horizontal dividing elements in a vertical direction; means for connecting said wall panel sheeting elements to said wall panel subassemblies through said sheeting support elements; a plurality of roof panel sheeting elements, each of said roof panel sheeting elements being configured as a planar rectangle having dimensions substantially equal to, but less than, the internal distances within a roof panel subassembly separating the surfaces of the external frame element and the transverse and longitudinal dividing elements of the roof panel subassembly; means for connecting the roof panel sheeting elements to the roof panel subassemblies through the sheeting support elements; and standard roofing materials sufficient to overlay said plurality of roof panel subassemblies. 2. A pre-formed building system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising: a plurality of interior wall panel sheeting elements, each of said interior sheeting elements being configured as a planar rectangle having dimensions substantially equivalent to each of said exterior wall panel sheeting elements; wherein said means for connecting said exterior wall panel sheeting elements to said wall panel subassemblies are adapted so as to connect both said interior wall panel sheeting elements and said exterior wall panel sheeting elements to said wall panel subassemblies through said vertical sheeting support elements. 3. A pre-formed building system as claimed in claim 2, further comprising: a plurality of volumes of insulating material, each of said volumes of insulating material being appropriately configured to be contained within a rectangular cylindrical volume within a wall panel subassembly bounded by the inner surface of an exterior wall panel sheeting element and the proximate surface of the corresponding interior wall panel sheeting element. 4. A pre-formed building system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of said exterior wall panel sheeting elements and its supporting vertical sheeting support elements are configured as a window frame adapted to retain a planar transparent pane. 5. A pre-formed building system as claimed in claim 2, wherein at least one of said exterior wall panel sheeting elements, its corresponding interior wall panel sheeting element, and their vertical sheeting support elements are configured as a window frame adapted to retain a transparent pane. 6. A pre-formed building system as claimed in claim 3, wherein at least one of said exterior wall panel sheeting elements, its corresponding interior wall panel sheeting element, its corresponding volume of insulating material, and their vertical sheeting support elements are configured as a window frame adapted to retain a transparent pane. 7. A pre-formed building system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising: at least one wall panel subassembly having a pair of vertical sides parallelly spaced apart by substantially twice said first spacing distance, an upper end segment rigidly affixed to, and spanning the separation between said vertical sides, a major vertical dividing element affixed to said upper end segment and depending therefrom so as to be parallelly equidistant between said vertical sides, a lower end segment rigidly affixed to and spanning the distance between said major vertical dividing element and one of said vertical sides, at least one horizontal dividing element disposed between, and affixed to said major vertical dividing element and said vertical sides, and a plurality of vertical sheeting support elements; and a standardly constructed door frame; wherein said door frame is connected to one of said vertical sides and said major vertical dividing element so as to provide a clear entry aperture through said wall panel subassembly. 8. A pre-formed building system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising: at least one wall panel subassembly formed of two pairs of parallelly spaced apart vertical sides having a vertical extent substantially equal to that of other wall panel subassemblies of the structure, said two pairs of spaced apart vertical sides being disposed to be coplanar such that a horizontal spacing between the outermost of said vertical sides of each pair is substantially four times said first spacing distance and the spacing between the innermost vertical sides of each pair provides a desired horizontal aperture distance, a pair of lower end segments rigidly affixed to and spanning the separation between the outermost and innermost vertical sides of each pair, respectively, a horizontal rib element rigidly affixed to and spanning the separation between the innermost vertical sides of each pair at an elevation providing a desired vertical aperture distance, a plurality of foreshortened horizontal dividing elements rigidly affixed to and disposed between the innermost and outermost vertical sides of each pair at elevations substantially equivalent to elevations of horizontal dividing elements of other wall panels subassemblies of the structure, vertical riser elements rigidly affixed to and extending upward from said horizontal rib element so as to be spaced apart, with respect to the outermost vertical sides by said first spacing distance, a plurality of horizontal top brace elements rigidly affixed to and spanning the distance between each outermost vertical side and its proximate vertical riser element, and between adjacent vertical riser elements, said intersections of said top brace elements and said riser elements being formed to include a recess for receiving one of said truss members, and a plurality of diagonal bracing elements rigidly affixed on the diagonals of rectangles formed by the horizontal rib element, the top brace elements, the outermost vertical sides, and the vertical riser elements; whereby said wall panel subassembly may be incorporated in said structure in an area of a wall wherein adjacent support columns are separated by four of said first spacing distances so as to provide vehicle access to said structure through said aperture. 9. A pre-formed system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising: a plurality of truss panel subassemblies of a second type, each of said truss panel subassemblies of the second type being formed to have a horizontal rib element having an extent substantially equivalent to an even integer multiple of said first spacing distance, a plurality of vertical riser elements rigidly affixed to and extending upwardly of said horizontal rib element in a spaced apart relationship such that at least one of said riser elements is situated at each end of said horizontal rib element and at spacings horizontally separated by said first spacing distance, with each even integer multiple of said first spacing distance, except for either end of said horizontal rib element, having two of said riser elements in parallel abutting contact, a pair of diagonal rib elements resting on and affixed to the upper ends of the riser elements, said riser elements located at each end of said horizontal rib element having a vertical extent substantially equivalent to the vertical extent of the longest vertical riser element of a truss panel subassembly of the first type, the centrally disposed vertical riser elements having increasing extent such that said diagonal rib elements are disposed at upwardly intersecting angles, with respect to said horizontal rib element, equivalent to the angle formed by the lower horizontal rib element and the diagonal rib element of the truss panel subassembly of the first type, and said truss panel subassemblies of the second type including a plurality of diagonal bracing elements; a plurality of truss plates; means for connecting the outermost vertical riser elements of a truss panel subassembly of the second type with the longest vertical riser elements of two of the truss panel subassemblies of the first type, one of said truss panel subassemblies of the first type being disposed to either side of said truss panel subassembly of the second type; and means for coupling a pair of said truss plates to the horizontal rib element of the truss panel subassembly of the second type and to the lower horizontal rib element of the the abutting truss panel subassembly of the first type so as to span the continuous line thereof at each point of abutting contact.