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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2009
Juan Carrion, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
William F. Baker, Evanston, IL (US);
John A. Cavanagh, Centerport, NY (US);
Robert C. Stewart, Annandale, NJ (US);
James E. Macdonald, North Bergen, NJ (US);
Charles Besjak, Westfield, NJ (US);
Juan Carrion, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
William F. Baker, Evanston, IL (US);
John A. Cavanagh, Centerport, NY (US);
Robert C. Stewart, Annandale, NJ (US);
James E. MacDonald, North Bergen, NJ (US);
Charles Besjak, Westfield, NJ (US);
Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP, New York, NY (US);
Newco Ventures LLC, South Plainfield, NJ (US);
Abstract
A precast wall system and a method for constructing a high-rise building using the precast wall system is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of interconnected precast panels. Each precast panel has a top end plate, a bottom end plate, a plurality of vertical bars disposed between and attached to the end plates and a cementitious material encasing the vertical bars and defining a plurality of sides of the respective panel. A first group of the interconnected precast panels are arranged vertically on a second group of the interconnected precast panels and the top end plate of each panel corresponding the first group is connected to the bottom end plate of a respective one of the panels corresponding to the second group. Methods for horizontally and vertically connecting the precast panels to each other are also disclosed.