Single-stair building code reforms are spreading as states and cities seek more small multifamily housing while maintaining ...

I have a one story brick building – residential, 1 family. We have an open stairway to the basement at the bottom of which is a door to the basement. The bottom of the stairway is enclosed. I want to ...

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American land-use reformers intent on addressing present-day housing shortages have, for the last decade, focused their efforts on amending zoning codes—the very rules that gradually downzoned most ...

You may be like most folks. I’ m guessing you give very little thought to the stairs you go up and down on a regular basis. It was in the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Simple stairs have just two components. The flat board that your foot steps on is called a tread. The treads connect to side stringers and sometimes to one that is in the middle of the stairs. The ...