Modular housing

摘要

A volumetric module that can have all of its exterior claddings, windows, doors, interior finishes, cabinetry, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and roofing installed and completed in the factory minimizing work to be completed in the field, and a method to protect the fully finished building module during transport with a series of demountable transport panels. The finished and protected building module is transported to a site utilizing the intermodal shipping network or by different modes of shipping and transportation. At the building site, the finished building module is placed on a foundation or other form of support, the transport panels are removed from the module revealing a fully finished building module suitable for use as a habitable building both in it singular use as well as the creation of a larger habitable building by joining finished building modules at the building site.

主权项

1. A finished building module for modular construction comprising:
two vertical side planes arranged parallel to and at a distance from each other; two vertical end planes arranged parallel to and at a distance from each and substantially perpendicular to the two vertical side planes; a top horizontal plane arranged at an upper end of the vertical side planes; a bottom plane arranged at a lower end of the vertical side planes, the bottom plane substantially perpendicular to the vertical side planes; and eight corner fittings configured for handling and securing of the building module, each of the corner fittings arranged at an intersection of three of the planes, each corner fitting comprising:
an outer first face substantially parallel to the bottom plane;an outer second face substantially parallel to the side planes;an outer third face substantially parallel to the end planes; a plurality of removably attached transport panels configured to be arranged on the top plane, side planes and the end planes, wherein respective outside faces of the plural transport panels are arranged inboard of respective outer faces of the corner fittings along the side, end, top, and bottom planes at least a minimum distance required for handling and securing of the corner fittings by standard load handling equipment for shipping containers; at least one fixed wall assembly separate from the removeable transport panels and arranged at least partially at one or more of the two vertical side planes and the two vertical end planes such that an outside wall face of each fixed wall assembly is inboard of a respective removeable transport panel, wherein the corner fittings are arranged such that:
a module vertical dimension between the outer first faces of the corner fittings along the top plane and the bottom plane substantially matches a standard vertical dimension required for positioning of corner fittings for a shipping container,a first horizontal dimension between the second outer faces of the corner fittings along one side plane and the second outer faces of the corner fittings along the opposite side plane substantially matches a standard dimension required for a horizontal positioning of corner fittings for a shipping container, anda second horizontal dimension between the third outer faces of the corner fittings along one end plane and the third face of the corner fittings along the opposite end plane substantially matches a standard dimension required for a longitudinal positioning of corner fittings for a shipping container.