Building structure and component therefor

Claim 1

A prefabricated facing panel for a building comprising, in combination: (a) a building framework with vertical columns; (b) a frame of structural steel members having at least an upper cord member and a lower chord member with a plurality of web members interconnecting said upper chord member and said lower cord member, said frame secured to and dimensioned to extend between adjacent vertical columns of said building framework; (c) tab means for mounting facing media, each said tab means attached at one face thereof to one side of said frame, with each opposite face thereof being in substantial planar alignment with corresponding faces of remaining tab means, said tab means having apertured portions extending beyond said structural steel members for accommodating connectors; (d) a plurality of facing members having an exposed front and a back, the back of said facing member being adjacent the substantially coplanar faces of said tab means, said facing members having blind holes in the back thereof being in alignment with the apertures of said apertured portions of said tab means, and; (e) a plurality of connector means for connecting said facing members and said tab means, each said connector means adhered to one end thereof to said blind hole, extending therefrom through said apertures of said tab means and secured at the other end thereof to said tab means; whereby the weight of said facing members is transmitted through said frame to said vertical columns of said building framework.