A friend is doing some serious renovations to her apartment which is on the ground floor of a larger commercial building. Her architect has spec'd an Ibeam that is 6.5" wide and 8" tall and 19'8" long so about 500 pounds. This beam has to be hoisted to the ceiling which is about 10' up and then supported on each end by wooden beams as columns resting on concrete slab on grade. Since it is inside the apartment there is no way to get a fork truck in there or any other type of lifting machinery. The architect apparently has some kind of plan to hoist it up but has not revealed it yet. My friend suspects that he thinks that a bunch of young guys with the proper machismo can lift it into position with just muscle power. I have suggested cribbing at each end and jacking it up or hiring a pro to do it but her budget is tight. I keep telling her that hiring someone is best as the potential for serious injury or death is there and she wouldn't like living there if she knew there were bloodstains under the carpet. Do any of you folks have any good ideas on how this might be done?