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You can often drill quite large holes through steel beams before reinforcement is needed. Depends where the hole is and loads etc. This page shows allowable hole sizes (scroll down to see diagram) https://www.smartbuild.uk.com/steel-beam-web-opening-service-hole

Probably because it's been properly detailed with the dragon beams to stop the spread as you say. And at that depth, that's a fairly strong hip member anyway (although it's all relative to span).

RonnyRaygun: I know this thread is old but.... I understand what you're getting at in your post, and agree that according to your analysis the hip beam will have a low load due to the 3D truss type action, however, I think there's more to it… The truss forces you describe depend on the jack...