Blockwork Pier Toothing / Tieing?

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Hello all,
I am new to these forums. I’ll get straight to my query.

I have had calculations done for three beams.
One UC with two UB’s bolting to it perpendicular from each side (see attached)

I need to build blockwork piers under each end of beam and tooth them into existing walls.

One of the piers I need to tooth in will be very close to a doorway which might not leave many bricks left to tooth in. It might as well be a stand alone pier. At the very top of the door way there’ll be more room to tooth in and they will be three courses of blue brick under the beam. Could I tie in somehow instead of toothing in which will probably leave about 400mm worth of brick still attached to the doorway?

The three beams have been designed to future proof a later extension which will eventually open up the top right corner space for an open plan kitchen/diner

Hopefully someone can make sense of my words and pictures and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Sorry I accidentally posted this in the wrong forum originally
 

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Are those done by a qualified engineer? The beams appear to be massive for the spans, and regarding that beam 3 and the bonding in, that's a very significant beam with a lot of load on the bearing and its a 200mm beam sitting on a 100mm wall which is in turn has no room as you say to bond a pier in, so I would question if the wall is actually adequate for the beam. It may need to be a steel post.

Part of designing beams is ensuring that the walls they sit on are suitable and in this case whether the specified piers can actually be built. Thats the engineer's job to check, design and tell you how he thinks it should be built.
 
Thanks for your reply Woody.
Yes the actual calls have been done by a structural engineer. The reason for the beams being larger than they need to be is because they are future proofing a later project…
Eventually beam 2 will be taken and along with the wall and replace with a longer beam spanning to through to the right hand side creating an open plan area.
He seems to think toothing into that wall would be ok but thought I’d get a double check.
I will getting initial inspection from the Building Inspector too.
 
Greensleaves said:
Thanks for your reply Woody.
Yes the actual calls have been done by a structural engineer. The reason for the beams being larger than they need to be is because they are future proofing a later project…
Eventually beam 2 will be taken and along with the wall and replace with a longer beam spanning to through to the right hand side creating an open plan area.
He seems to think toothing into that wall would be ok but thought I’d get a double check.
I will getting initial inspection from the Building Inspector too.
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Is that doorway eventually being blocked up?
 
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