unussual support beam

[FrankInWIS]

visited company site for area factory built homes.  wanted to look at the dormer they do cause the upper wasn't finished and I could see all the construction.  Took lots of pics for when we do ours next week, but I wondered about the strange steel beam they had running across the whole dormer ceiling a couple feet in from the wall.  U shaped metal beam, seems to be just something they made up, using steel to minimize intrusion into room.  Or is this a standard building hardware piece I have not seen?
https://s82.photobucket.com/albums/j262/fauer/th_middormerheader.jpg

[MountainDon]

Frank, I don't know about that beam, but when it comes to the forum you can edit and delete your own posts.

At the upper right side of any of you posts you will see "quote", "modify", "remove" instaed of just the "quote" like on everyone else's posts.

[FrankInWIS]

ooops, I ommited the wrong one too.  numb nuts here....

[MountainDon]

ooops, I ommited the wrong one too.  numb nuts here....

Comes from too many WI winters Frank.  

[glenn kangiser]

Any steel beams such as that will be engineered, signed stamped and approved by an engineer, if they are structural, as they are not pre-approved standard stick framing -- or maybe they want to hang something heavy from the ceiling or HVAC on the roof -- just guessing.