I'm with you 110% on metal Cees over wood. I started out with wood but over the years saw the benefits of, and migrated to, metal Cees and now build with nothing else. Also, if you really want a strong beam turn the open sides together and weld 2 of them together into a beam and wala. Super strong, light in weight and cheap.
Just remember in the "moment of (inertia) deflection" equation, Height is 3rd order.....2x2x2 = 8 and 3x3x3 = 27 while width is second order, 2x2 = 4, 3x3 =9 sort of thing.....tall and skinny. In building my house was it to be a 3 2x6's side by side beam or a single 2x12. The load factor was about the same (7.7k vs 6.9k) but the cost won out as 3 2x6's were cheaper than one 2x12 and I would have had to add a 2x4 on each side to support the floor joists whereas I just sat the joists on top of the 2x6's.
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