I ended up doing a simple calc to check if this steel beam was up to the task for this local guy. While the beam was fine I questioned what he was doing above. Above the floor he was going to have a 5' pony wall with the pictured roof truss . I would really be worried about the outward forces pushing out the pony wall.
One option I was thinking of would be if he hasn't bought the roof truss use a common or attic roof truss . With the pony wall being replaced by a full wall like 8'. ]
Or maybe tie the pictured trusses at 8' maybe 4 times over the 30' length?
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