Brice,

I think the reason why there is this one steel beam is that the front wall 
of the house, which is a brick house, sits on this beam.  The span of the 
beam is 15 feet end to end, with about three feet at either end supported 
on the stub walls.  So about a nine foot unsupported span.

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Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
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