Building panel

Abstract

Abstract A building element comprises a rectangular panel having four flanges projecting from one face thereof adjacent to the edges of the panel, wherein the bottom and side edges of the panel each have at least one groove running the length thereof and wherein the flanges are provided with means suitable for, or suitable for use in, the fixing of the building element to another similar or different building element. There is also disclosed a method of building a dwelling which includes forming a storey of said dwelling by erecting four walls from building elements, wherein the erection of the walls is started at one corner of the dwelling and proceeds laterally therefrom wherein lengths of wall longer than about 2 meters are supported by temporary brackets, wherein at least three of the four corners of the dwelling are braced during the erection thereof by securing struts to the tops of the walls defining each corner diagonally across the corner, and wherein a structural partition is secured to the floor of said storey and to one wall of the storey near the midpoint of that wall and is braced to the opposite wall by a temporary bracing strut.

Inventors

• 👤 John H. Shennan

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