To understand stairs, let’s talk about floors. Like many Americans, you might live in a home with a wood-floor system. The ...

How to Measure Stair Railings and Guards for Interior Stairs Handrail safety is just as important as the safety of the staircase itself, with proper stair railing height requirements that must be ...

But a combination of zoning codes, fire safety concerns, and financial pressures have made single-stair construction impossible to build across roughly 97 percent of the United States. CHUC ...

Among housing advocates and architects, single-stair reform has been top of mind ... and Honolulu—in amending its local building code to allow for this housing typology. In Austin, the charge ...