B.C. is exploring the potential of allowing single-stair apartments under its building code, in a move experts say could help make affordable housing easier to build. A single-stair or single-egress ...

The National Fire Protection Association released One Stair, Two Perspectives: Single Exit Stair Symposium, a report summarizing key discussions and findings from a recent symposium addressing ...

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

Citing the Grenfell Tower tragedy isn't enough to nix this idea. Eliason is a researcher, writer, urbanist, and architect based in Seattle. He holds a B.Arch from Virginia Tech. His writings and past ...

Buildings up to 6 storeys allowed to have 1 exit stairwell instead of 2 in effort to boost housing supply The B.C. government has announced changes to the province's building code that will allow ...

Felicity Maxwell, Parker Welch, Sam Naylor, and Chris Gannon at the conference’s final day. Fire Chief Alston, single-stairwell skeptic: “Why would anyone want to limit ingress and egress to any large ...

The way B.C. builds it's 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 ...

2:00 B.C. government institutes one staircase rule for buildings under 6 storeys New B.C. building code regulations allowing structures under six storeys to have just one egress stairway are being ...

Pictured: Example of computational fire modeling in a large industrial manufacturing facility. The model shows the fire location, and outputs information such as heat release rate and visibility, ...