Oh...dust from the old ceiling sounds like trouble. You could "sister up" the old beams with some dimensional lumber, leveled on the bottom with some string stretched between low points - then apply sheetrock. Or...you could simply staple some heavy (3 mil) plastic up on the existing ceiling to seal it off from dust, which might actually make it easier to push some of this plastic upwards between existing beams to accommodate enlarger heights.
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