Steel Beam Pillar Question

[hundleton1]

Hi guys, I'm removing a load bearing wall down stares, it supports the floor joists on the 1st floor, no other loads apart from timber frame partitions, the beam is 3.15m long and its been calculated as 152x152x23UC S275 with 100mm bearing and 330mm x 100mm x 140mm pad stones, its going to need to sit on pillars on each side as its a stone building and on one side there is a wooden beam built into the wall rite in the way, this is supporting the wall above as there is an arch alcove in the wall below, we don't want this anymore so its being blocked up to create a pillar on that side, on the other side there is currently a doorway thats timber frame around it, that is all being torn down and block work wall being built, we were also going to put in a pillar that side as the new blockwork wall is only going to be short.

Any one have any ideas on what size of pillar would be needed, obviously it has to be 300 x 100 minimum but was looking at doing a block flat size?

thanks in advance,

 

[Static]

I would aim for 330mm minimum built from engineering bricks.. anything else and you may need to check with your engineer..