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

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 ...

What do stairs have to do with California’s housing crisis? More than you might think, say many local policymakers. Cities across the state have been considering building code changes to let new ...

In many an older house, the stairway appears to be something of an afterthought. In the days before building codes, stairs were often tucked into narrow holes that required the user to duck or risk a ...