BOWERSTON, OHIO – Building industry professionals eager to upgrade the look of an interior stairway can now employ Reversible Stair Risers from L. J. Smith Stair Systems. The new risers feature a ...

Vancouver City Council has approved City staff's modified concepts of a single-egress staircase residential building design.

A single staircase in a San Diego apartment building. Some stakeholders embrace what’s called “single stair reform in the debate over housing development. (Photo by Times of San Diego staff) This ...

DEAR TIM: I have to build a simple set of steps but I’m totally lost. I don’t understand how to calculate what the distance should be for the risers and the treads. Everything about building steps ...

Q. I have to build a simple set of steps but I'm totally lost. I don't understand how to calculate what the distance should be for the risers and the treads. Everything about building steps seems ...

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The way B.C. builds its apartments could change in the coming years. This is thanks to policy makers in the province considering the integration of single-egress stairs in apartment buildings, also ...

Ambiguity in newly published documents means schemes will still be “impossible” to sign off, say housebuilders. The government’s design guidance for second staircases lacks technical detail and will ...

Marylebone scheme the latest to be redrawn following new fire safety ruling in London Architect Bell Phillips has had to redesign a 1,100-home estate regeneration scheme for Westminster council ...