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A portable building comprising wall panels, studs, floor panels, floor support members, roof panels, truss members may be transported in the bed of a pickup truck, erected on one building site, used for living quarters at the site, disassembled at the one building site, transported in the pickup tru

A portable building comprising wall panels, studs, floor panels, floor support members, roof panels, truss members may be transported in the bed of a pickup truck, erected on one building site, used for living quarters at the site, disassembled at the one building site, transported in the pickup truck to a new site and erected on the new site. Erection of the portable building is easily accomplished in less than six man-hours. The portable building will withstand a side load equivalent to an 80 mile per hour wind and a roof load of 40 pounds per square foot.

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1. A portable building comprising a plurality of wall panels, a plurality of upright posts, a plurality of floor panels, a plurality of floor support members, a plurality of roof panels, and a plurality of truss members, each said truss member comprising a pair of opposing rafters and a collar tie,

1. A portable building comprising a plurality of wall panels, a plurality of upright posts, a plurality of floor panels, a plurality of floor support members, a plurality of roof panels, and a plurality of truss members, each said truss member comprising a pair of opposing rafters and a collar tie, wherein an edge of each of said plurality of wall panels is captured in a channel in one of said plurality of upright posts, an edge of each of said plurality of roof panels is captured in a channel in one of said plurality of rafters, said plurality of rafters joined together in opposing pairs at the common end thereof and further joined together with said collar tie spaced from said common end, said plurality of floor panels supported on said plurality of floor support members, said plurality of floor support members supported in receiving sockets affixed to a rim joist plate extending alone opposing sides of said portable building, wherein said plurality of upright posts are affixed to alternate ones of said floor support members and said rim joist plate. 2. A portable building as in claim 1 wherein said pluralty of upright posts each have an elongated lag bolt passing through an appended tab on the lower end thereof and through a preformed hole in said rim joist into said alternate ones of said floor suppwort members. 3. A portable building as in claim 1 wherein said wall panels comprise side wall panels and end wall panels, said side wall panels being substantially identical is shape, size and construction, said end panels comprising a right hand, left hand and central panel of identical internal construction, said center panel having an overall length of less than eight feet. 4. A portable building as in claim 3 wherein said wall panels have an outer structural skin extending below a bottom surface of said wall panel adapted to be captured between an outer rim joist plate of said portable building and a contiguous one of said floor panels and wherein an inner structural skin is adapted to rest on an upper surface of said one of said floor panels. 5. A portable building as in claim 1 wherein said alternate floor support members are affixed to said rim joist plate. 6. A portable building as in claim 1 wherein at least two of said plurality of rafters has at least one elongated fastener passing through a web portion of each said rafter and at least two of said plurality of upright posts has another elongated fastener passing through a web portion of each said upright post, said one said elongated fastener removably holding said roof panel in said channel and between said two rafters and said another elongated fastener removably holding said wall panel in said channel and between said two upright posts. 7. A portable building as in claim 6 wherein said one said elongated fastener passes through one of said rafters and one of said upright posts at a common joint between said one of said rafters and said one of said upright posts and through another of said rafters and another of said upright posts at a common joint between said another of said rafters and said another of said upright posts. 8. A portable building as in claim 3 wherein said construction comprises an outer frame with cross pieces disposed between the edges thereof, structural foam pieces disposed between said cross pieces, said structural foam extending to said outer frame, said frame, said cross pieces and said structural foam sandwiched between outer skins. 9. A portable building as in claim 8 wherein said frame is constructed from materials selected from the group comprising wood, steel, aluminum, thermoplastics or combinations thereof. 10. A portable building as in claim 8 wherein said cross pieces are constructed from materials selected from the group comprising wood, steel, aluminum, thermoplastics or combinations thereof.