Building construction

Claim 1

IN A BUILDING CONSTRUCTION, A PAIR OF BUILDING WALL SECTIONS EACH COMPRISING SPACED UPSTANDING PANELS AND INSULATING MEANS FILLING THE SPACE BETWEEN THE PANELS, AN UPSTANDING COLUMN SECURED TO EACH WALL SECTION AND HAVING FLANGES RESPECTIVELY FLUSH AGAINST THE INSIDE SURFACES OF SAID PANELS AND A WEB RUNNING TRANSVERSELY OF THE UPSTANDING PANELS AND COLUMN FLANGES, EACH COLUMN CONSTITUTING PART OF AN END OF A WALL SECTION AND FORMING AN END CLOSURE FOR THE WALL SECTION AND RETAINING THE INSULATING MATERIAL THEREIN, THE END OF ONE WALL SECTION BEING ADJACENT BUT SPACED FROM THE END OF THE OTHER WALL SECTION TO LEAVE GAPS BETWEEN THE ENDS OF THE WALL SECTIONS AT THE OPPOSITE SIDES THEREOF AND WITH THE WEBS BEING SPACED APART A DISTANCE GREATER THAN THE WIDTHS OF SAID GAPS, AND MEANS FORMING A RIGID CONNECTION BETWEEN SAID ENDS OF THE WALL SECTIONS AND BETWEEN THE COLUMNS; SAID MEANS COMPRISING A UNITARY BATTEN SPANNING EACH GAP AND EACH BEING IN RIGID ENGAGEMENT WITH AN OUTWARDLY PRESENTED SURFACE OF EACH UPSTANDING MEMBER, THREADED FASTENERS PROJECTING THROUGH EACH BATTEN AND THE ADJACENT GAP, AND NUTS ON THE INSIDE OF EACH WALL SECTION ADJACENT TO EACH GAP AND BEING RETAINED AGAINST ROTATION BY ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID WEBS AS THE FASTENERS ARE TIGHTENED TO DRAW EACH SAID BATTEN AGAINST THE ADJACENT FLANGES AND CLAMP THOSE FLANGES AND THE ADJACENT UPSTANDING PANELS BETWEEN THE NUTS AND THE BATTENS, EACH NUT HAVING A WIDTH THAT IS LESS THAN THE WIDTH OF THE GAP AND A LENGTH THAT IS GREATER THAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID WEBS SO THAT THE NUTS MAY BE THREADED ONTO THE FASTENERS AND ORIENTED TO PASS THROUGH SAID GAPS AND THEN ROTATED A FRACTION OF A REVOLUTION BY SAID FASTENERS UNTIL THE NUTS ABUT SAID WEBS.