Santa Monica City Council approves changes to building codes, raising high-rise threshold and allowing single-stairway ...

The state's proposed 'zone zero' rules are commonsense fire safety, proponents say, but opponents fear they will decimate ...

If your stair railing is old, dysfunctional, not to code, or simply not to your taste, you may have considered changing it for something new, safe, and stylish. This might seem a daunting task, but ...

It has been roughly a year since former tenants of Victory Square Apartments in Canton moved into new homes. Where are they ...

As part of 9/11 remembrance, a memorial stair climb will take place in Laredo as residents unite to commemorate and honor ...

The new Wanlass Center for Art Education and Research makes clever, elegant use of its compact footprint.

Luma Heights resident Dale Nicks, 70, had been living in the 125-year-old apartment building in the Grandview Park neighborhood for about 22 years. After those two-plus decades of living at 217 19th ...

Firefighters took the stairs to reach the woman’s 19th-floor apartment on Wednesday. Residents said one of the building’s two ...

The Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Yusuf Attah, recently inaugurated a twenty-one-member committee on the National Building Code Advisory. In a statement, it was noted that the ...

The Federal Government has planned to inaugurate the National Building Code Advisory Committee later this month to address the issue of building collapses in the country. The Minister of Housing and ...

Nashville's "smart stair" building code became official earlier in July, after it had passed the Metro Nashville Council. The change allows apartment and condo buildings to be built with a single ...