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A tough, water-proof building system provides wall, ceiling, and floor structures, as well as accessories. The walls can be designed to have vertical and horizontal strengths sufficient to be used in place of concrete, as an engineered solution, both above grade and below-grade, including in severe

A tough, water-proof building system provides wall, ceiling, and floor structures, as well as accessories. The walls can be designed to have vertical and horizontal strengths sufficient to be used in place of concrete, as an engineered solution, both above grade and below-grade, including in severe weather conditions. Walls have inner and outer layers, and structurally reinforcing members extending, typically as a layer and/or stud, the full height of the wall, at spaced locations along the length of the wall. The spaces between the structurally reinforcing members are optionally filled with insulating foam. An optional reinforcing stud is attached to, or overlaid by, the inner layer, and extends inwardly into the building from what is otherwise the inner surface of the building panel/wall panel. A building floor can be supported from the load-bearing wall, at locations on the floor support members which are below the top of the load-bearing wall.

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1. A building, comprising: (a) a load-bearing foundation; and(b) an upright wall supported by said load-bearing foundation, said upright wall having a height defined between a top and a bottom, a length, and a thickness, and comprising (i)an outer fiber-reinforced polymeric layer, said outer layer d

1. A building, comprising: (a) a load-bearing foundation; and(b) an upright wall supported by said load-bearing foundation, said upright wall having a height defined between a top and a bottom, a length, and a thickness, and comprising (i)an outer fiber-reinforced polymeric layer, said outer layer defining an outermost surface of said upright wall,(ii) an inner fiber-reinforced polymeric layer, said inner layer defining an innermost surface (25) of said upright wall,(iii) a body of said wall being defined between the innermost and outermost surfaces,(iv) a plurality of fiber-reinforced studs spaced along the length of said upright wall and extending away from said body of said wall, including away from the innermost surface, and(v) channels between said studs, a given said channel being bounded on two sides by said studs, and on a third side by said inner layer, a fourth side of such channel, opposite the third side, being unbounded by any elements of said panels. 2. A building as in claim 1 wherein said inner layer and said outer layer comprise resin-impregnated fiberglass layers. 3. A building as in claim 1 wherein at least one of said inner layer and said outer layer comprises resin-impregnated carbon fiber. 4. A building as in claim 1 wherein at least one of said inner layer . and said outer layer has a nominal thickness of between about 0.03 inch thick and about 0.15 inch thick, said foundation wall having a vertical crush resistance of at least 4000 pounds per lineal foot of said wall section and a horizontal point load bending moment resistance capacity corresponding to at least about 2000 pounds per square foot. 5. A building as in claim 1 wherein said foundation comprises a footer, and a foundation wall supported from said footer and supporting said upright wall, said foundation wall having a top, a bottom, a length, and a thickness, further comprising a bottom plate under said foundation wall, including under such channels, said bottom plate extending along the length of said foundation wall including under ones of the channels. 6. A building as in claim 5, said building further comprising a concrete slab floor overlying portions of said bottom plate in ones of said channels and abutting said second outermost surface of said foundation wall, including in ones of such channels. 7. A building as in claim 1, a given said stud comprising first and second legs (128) spaced from each other and extending from the innermost surface in a direction away from both of said inner layer and said outer layer to an end panel (130) of the respective said stud. 8. A building as in claim 1, said upright wall further comprising a structurally-reinforcing web extending, at spaced locations along the length of said wall, from locations at or proximate said inner layer to locations at or proximate said outer layer and thereby defining intercostals between said inner and outer layers. 9. A building as in claim 1, further comprising thermal insulation in at least one of the channels (131), extending generally from a first one of said studs to a second one of said studs, and from said innermost layer to the fourth side of the channel. 10. A building, comprising: (a) a load-bearing foundation, said foundation comprising a footer, and a foundation wall supported from said footer, said foundation wall having a top, a bottom, a length, a thickness, an inner layer, and an outer layer, a plurality of fiber-reinforced studs being spaced along the length of said foundation wall and extending away from a body of said foundation wall, channels being defined between respective ones of said studs, a given said channel being bounded on two sides by ones of said studs, and on a third side by said inner layer, a fourth side of said channel, opposite the third side, being unbounded by any element of said upright foundation wall, further comprising a bottom plate under said foundation wall, including under such channels, said bottom plate extending along the length of said foundation wall including under ones of the channels; and(b) an upright wall supported by said foundation wall, said upright wall having a height defined between a top and a bottom, a length, and a thickness, and comprising (i) an outer fiber-reinforced polymeric layer, said outer layer defining an outermost surface of said upright wall,(ii) an inner fiber-reinforced polymeric layer, said inner layer defining an innermost surface (25) of said upright wall,(iii) a structurally-reinforcing web extending at spaced locations along the length of said wall, from locations at or proximate said inner layer to locations at or proximate said outer layer and thereby defining intercostals between said inner and outer layers. 11. A building as in claim 10 wherein at least one of said inner layer and said outer layer comprises a resin-impregnated carbon fiber layer. 12. A building as in claim 10 wherein said inner layer and said outer layer comprise resin-impregnated fiberglass layers. 13. A building, comprising: (a) a load-bearing foundation; and(b) an upright wall supported by said load-bearing foundation, said upright wall having a height defined between a top and a bottom, a length and a thickness, and comprising: (i) an outer fiber-reinforced polymeric layer, said outer layer defining an outermost surface of said wall,(ii) an inner fiber-reinforced polymeric layer, said inner layer defining an innermost surface (25) of said wall,(iii) a plurality of foam blocks extending generally from said inner layer to said outer layer, a given said foam block having an inner surface disposed toward the innermost surface, and an outer surface disposed toward the outermost surface, and opposing side surfaces, said foam blocks being disposed in side-by-side relationship between said inner and outer layers,(iv) a layer of fibrous reinforcement material being wrapped about a given said foam block such that a first said fibrous layer wrapping a first said foam block is disposed against a second said fibrous layer wrapping a second said foam block, and(v) a plurality of load-bearing studs spaced along the length of said wall and protruding from the innermost surface. 14. A building as in claim 13 wherein said inner layer and said outer layer comprise resin-impregnated fiberglass layers. 15. A building as in claim 13 wherein at least one of said inner layer and said outer layer comprises resin-impregnated carbon fiber. 16. A building as in claim 13 wherein at least one of said inner layer and said outer layer has a nominal thickness of between about 0.03 inch thick and about 0.15 inch thick, said foundation wall having a vertical crush resistance of at least 4000 pounds per lineal foot of said wall section and a horizontal point load bending moment resistance capacity corresponding to at least about 2000 pounds per square foot. 17. A building as in claim 13 wherein said foundation comprises a footer, and a foundation wall supported from said footer and supporting said upright wall, said foundation wall having a top, a bottom, a length, and a thickness, channels being defined between respective ones of said studs, a given said channel being bounded on two sides by respective ones of said studs and on a third side by said inner layer, a fourth side of the given channel, opposite the third side, being unbounded by any elements of said foundation wall, further comprising a bottom plate under said foundation wall, including under such channels, said bottom plate extending along the length of said foundation wall including under ones of the channels. 18. A building as in claim 13, a given said stud comprising first and second legs (128) spaced from each other and extending from the innermost surface in a direction away from both of said inner layer and said outer layer to an end panel (130) of the respective said stud. 19. A building, comprising: (a) a load-bearing foundation; and(b) an upright wall supported by said load-bearing foundation, said upright wall having a height defined between a top and a bottom, a length , and a thickness, and comprising: (i) an outer, fiber-reinforced polymeric layer, said outer layer defining an outermost surface of said wall,(ii) an inner fiber-reinforced polymeric layer, said inner layer defining an innermost surface (25) of said wall,(iii) a plurality of foam blocks extending generally from said inner layer to said outer layer, a given said foam block having an inner surface disposed toward the innermost surface, and an outer surface disposed toward the outermost surface, and opposing side surfaces, said foam blocks being disposed in side-by-side relationship between said inner and outer layers,(iv) a layer of fibrous reinforcement material being wrapped about a given said foam block such that a first said fibrous layer wrapping a first said foam block is disposed against, and in surface-to-surface contact with, a second said fibrous layer wrapping a second said foam block, and(v) a plurality of studs spaced along the length of said upright wall and protruding from the innermost surface. 20. A building as in claim 19 wherein said inner layer and said outer layer comprise resin-impregnated fiberglass layers. 21. A building as in claim 19 wherein at least one of said inner layer and said outer layer comprises resin-impregnated carbon fiber.