Content Page: 41 Bearings For Beans Other Than Timber In Empirical Construction

(1) Beans and girders, other than lintels referred to in subsection (3), which support only a floor carrying a superimposed load not exceeding 250 kilograms per square metre, and which rest on empirically constructed walls or piers, shall have a bearing-area at each end of each opening bridged by such a beam or girder of…