Reengineering Concepts, Techniques and Tools for Component Extraction

An assembled frame for a building and a method of erecting a building therewith. A pre-assembled frame includes a floor joist, wall studs, ceiling chord, and the frame for the upper floor also has roof chords. The floor joist and wall studs have notches formed in their inwardly presented surfaces which are adapted to interfit with stringer members. The frames are adapted to interfit with notched mud sills. The pre-formed and pre-notched parts may be readily and unerringly assembled at the construction site by fitting a frame into the notches at one end of the mud sills and temporarily supporting it, then adding an adjacent second frame and placing a stringer member therebetween. Successive frames are added in like manner until the structure is completed.